Sinian Intelligent Driving Completes Hundreds of Millions of Yuan in Series B+ Round Financing, Breaking Through from Closed to Open Landing Scenarios | Exclusive from 36Kr

36Kr exclusively learned that Snien Intelligent Driving has completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series B+ financing. This round of financing was jointly invested by investment institutions and industrial capitals such as Zhengzhou High - tech Industrial Investment Fund, Zhejiang Innovation Investment Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd., and Huarong. The funds will be used for the R & D of unmanned driving products and market expansion.

Founded in April 2020, Snien Intelligent Driving is a company focusing on the R & D and implementation of unmanned driving technology in the field of scenario - based logistics. It provides intelligent driving solutions for large - scale industrial logistics scenarios such as ports, industrial parks, and trunk lines. Currently, Snien Intelligent Driving has three R & D centers, located in Beijing, Zhengzhou, and Shanghai respectively.

In 2025, Snien Intelligent Driving achieved significant business breakthroughs in multiple fields.

In the L4 closed - loop scenarios, Snien Intelligent Driving's business covers scenarios such as ports, industrial parks, and factories with container, bulk cargo, general cargo, and steel transportation as the core businesses. It has cooperated with more than 20 large - scale ports and has a leading market share.

Due to the fixed routes and fewer interference factors, closed or semi - closed scenarios such as ports, industrial parks, and mines have become the main implementation scenarios for L4 - level autonomous driving commercialization. The technical difficulties mainly lie in the balance between system accuracy and environmental adaptability. Although the rules in closed scenarios are clear, there are high requirements for driving and parking accuracy. Moreover, in mixed - traffic scenarios, the intersection of people and vehicles is frequent, and there are many unexpected situations.

Snien Intelligent Driving has led the construction of projects such as the first domestic automated general cargo terminal, the first full - process intelligent transformation project of a traditional terminal in China, the first autonomous driving demonstration area for railway stations in mixed - traffic mode in China, and the first autonomous short - haul transportation project within a domestic steel enterprise. Its solutions have been widely applied to leading enterprises in the industry such as PetroChina, Ningbo Port, Qingdao Port, Xiamen Port, Sun Paper, and Xinjiang Land Port.

The L4 open - loop scenario is a new business breakthrough for Snien Intelligent Driving.

In 2025, Snien Intelligent Driving formed a large - scale trunk logistics convoy. Currently, fleets have been deployed in areas such as Baotou in Inner Mongolia, Dongjiang in Tianjin, and the Yongjin Expressway, with a scale of nearly a hundred vehicles.

The core challenge in open - loop scenarios lies in dealing with a highly uncertain traffic environment. The system needs to process a large number of sudden obstacles and complex traffic behaviors in real - time, which requires extremely high generalization ability of perception algorithms and anthropomorphic level of decision - making systems.

Currently, L4 - level autonomous driving is progressing from low - speed closed scenarios to high - speed open scenarios. Closed scenarios such as ports and industrial parks have achieved large - scale commercial implementation, while open scenarios such as trunk logistics have also entered the demonstration operation stage, significantly accelerating the commercialization process.

With the proven "safety - driver - free" normal operation ability in closed scenarios such as ports and the recent breakthroughs in trunk logistics convoy deployment, Snien Intelligent Driving is moving towards the deep - water area of autonomous driving commercialization.

He Bei, the founder and chairman of Snien Intelligent Driving, said that after this round of financing, the company hopes to continue to improve its growth rate and profitability and will focus on three areas: developing better unmanned driving systems, accelerating the adaptation of customized chassis and self - developed chassis, and promoting large - scale production.