Zhongke Times Secures 300 Million Yuan in Series B2 Round, Setting Record for Largest Single Financing in Industrial Computing Sector in 2025 | Exclusive Report by Yingke

Hard Krypton has learned that "Zhongke Times", an enterprise focusing on the research of industrial intelligent computers, has completed a RMB 300 million Series B2 financing round. We have summarized the information of this financing round and several highlights of the company:

1. Financing Amount and Investment Institutions

Financing Round: Series B2

Financing Scale: RMB 300 million

Investors: Yueke Financial, Guangzhou Development Zone Investment Group, Bank of China Capital Investment. Old shareholders such as Bojiang Capital, Lenovo Capital & Incubation Group, Zhuoyuan Asia, and Guoxin Guozheng have over - subscribed for follow - on investment.

Use of Funds: It will continue to increase investment in the iteration and innovation of general industrial intelligent computing terminals, the ecological expansion and deepening of the dual - domain operating system (MetaOS), the function enhancement and experience improvement of the unified development environment (MetaFacture), and the innovation iteration and open transplantation of the real - time operating core (MetaCore).

Cumulative Financing Amount: Over RMB 1 billion

2. Basic Company Information

Founding Time: 2022

Registered Address: Shenzhen

Technical Highlights: The industrial intelligent computer of "Zhongke Times" integrates functions such as real - time control, motion control, intelligent vision, edge computing, configuration display, human - machine interaction, and robotics. It has the characteristics of high real - time performance and strong computing power. The response speed of hard real - time tasks (which can be stably achieved at the microsecond level), the real - time performance, stability, and axis - carrying capacity of multi - axis synchronous motion control remain at the global leading and cutting - edge level.

In terms of software, the self - developed dual - domain operating system (MetaOS) of Zhongke Times uses a dual - kernel architecture to ensure the "hard real - time" deterministic execution of control tasks and is also compatible with a rich general IT ecosystem. The self - developed unified development environment (MetaFacture) has extremely strong openness and scalability, making it convenient and easy to use.

3. Market Size

According to estimates, the global industrial computing market size will be approximately US$80 billion in 2025. In the next five years, the global industrial computing market is expected to have an annual compound growth rate of around 5.4%. By 2030, the global industrial computing market is expected to exceed US$100 billion.

In 2025, China's industrial computing market will account for more than 35% of the global market, with an estimated market size of between RMB 190 billion and RMB 220 billion, making it the largest single market in the world. In the next five years, driven by the transformation of the manufacturing industry, China's market will have an annual compound growth rate significantly higher than the world market, reaching 10% - 15%. By 2030, China's industrial computing market size is expected to reach between RMB 350 billion and RMB 400 billion.

4. Company Performance

Since its establishment, Zhongke Times' revenue has achieved rapid growth of more than three times for several consecutive years. The company will gradually focus on mid - to high - end control fields such as the pan - semiconductor, pan - energy, and pan - precision processing industries. It has established close cooperation with multiple benchmark and strategic customers in the above industries, and there are multiple customers with annual contract amounts or supply volumes exceeding tens of millions of RMB for batch replication.

A new growth point, embodied robots - As an industrial intelligent computer with high real - time performance, strong computing power, and hard real - time task speed all at the global leading level, the product features of Zhongke Times are highly compatible with the core needs of the embodied robot industry on the verge of explosion. Embodied robots need to process massive amounts of real - time data from multiple sensors throughout the body and complete complex calculations such as environmental perception, motion planning, and joint motion control in a very short time. This poses very high challenges to the real - time performance, computing power, and reliability of the underlying computing platform. Zhongke Times' industrial intelligent computer has been tested and maturely applied in high - end industrial scenarios such as semiconductors and CNC. It can well provide a high - speed, high - precision, and highly integrated computing platform for embodied robots. Currently, the company's relevant products have been batch - applied to leading domestic embodied robot brands, and this direction will become a strong growth point for the company in the future.

5. Team Background

The company's founding team comes from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the listed companies incubated by it. Team members come from companies such as Alibaba DAMO Academy, Beckhoff Automation, Siemens, and Schneider. At the same time, led by two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the company has strong technical advantages in fields such as operating system development, automation control, and industrial software algorithms.

Dr. Ma Jun, the founder, is a serial entrepreneur. He has founded a B2C e - commerce company and an industrial AI sensor company successively. He founded Zhongke Times in August 2022 and has received seven rounds of financing in a row since its establishment, with a cumulative financing amount of over RMB 1 billion. Zhongke Times has won the title of "Potential Unicorn Enterprise" in Shenzhen in 2025, the first place in the HICOOL Global Entrepreneurship Competition in 2025, the second place in the national high - end equipment manufacturing track of the 13th China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, etc. Dr. Ma Jun himself was included in the list of "Fortune China 40 Under 40" for two consecutive years in 2024 and 2025.

6. Company Views

Hard Krypton: Could you introduce the uses and prospects of industrial intelligent computers?

Zhongke Times: Traditional industrial controllers such as PLCs and motion controllers have relatively large limitations in terms of computing power, openness, and toolchains, and cannot meet the requirements of the high - end manufacturing industry for control speed, accuracy, and the complexity of motion control. Our industrial intelligent computer belongs to a new generation of industrial controllers, which fully integrates automation technology (OT) and computer technology (IT) to build a new industrial computing platform with strong computing power, horizontal universality, and openness and ease of use, greatly improving industrial computing efficiency. The core of this is the industrial operating system and the industrial programming platform.

In this field, we are the absolute number one in China. Globally, our counterpart is Beckhoff Automation, which is the first German hidden champion. Its revenue in China is approximately RMB 3 billion, and its global revenue is approximately €2 billion.

Hard Krypton: What are the core advantages of Zhongke Times' industrial intelligent computers?

Zhongke Times: In terms of technology itself, the first is our operating system. There are two core indicators in the operating system: latency and jitter. The so - called latency refers to the average time it takes from issuing an instruction to its execution, which measures the "speed" of the system. Jitter refers to the fluctuation range of the latency time, which measures the stability of the system. In terms of the latency of a single instruction set, traditional industrial controllers are basically around two milliseconds, while ours can reach approximately 50 microseconds, which is completely an order of magnitude higher. For customers, the lower the latency, the higher the beat speed that can be achieved on the assembly line. The second is our programming system IDE, which is compatible with multiple computer languages and industrial - specific algorithm libraries, maximizing the convenience for on - site engineers to program and adapt to the equipment. We have great advantages over our peers in these two basic software.

Hard Krypton: What is the future development direction?

Zhongke Times: First of all, we will continue to increase investment in technology. Next, we will still focus on the mid - to high - end market, concentrating on fields such as the pan - energy, pan - semiconductor, and pan - precision processing industries to deepen and penetrate. Another characteristic lies in internationalization. Currently, we have offices in Russia and Vietnam and a R & D center in Germany overseas. While selling Zhongke Times' products overseas, we will continue to integrate advanced European technologies into our product system.

Regarding product innovation, since we are engaged in general automation, many embodied robots are essentially a type of automation equipment. Many of their technologies are actually industrial automation technologies. However, compared with high - end industrial scenarios such as semiconductors and CNC, the control and reaction speeds of embodied devices are relatively slow. Our products have been fully verified and applied in these high - end industrial scenarios, so they will naturally form a good fit for embodied scenarios, but some changes need to be made in the hardware form and algorithms. Therefore, after this round of financing, we will add another product line in the embodied direction.

7. Investor Views

Lu Junji, Deputy General Manager of Yueke Venture Capital, said: As the core foundation for the high - end and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry, the mid - to high - end market of industrial control systems has long been dominated by foreign manufacturers. A domestic solution that combines high performance and autonomy has become an urgent need for industrial upgrading. As a technology transfer enterprise focusing on computer architecture, incubated by the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongke Times has built a full - stack self - developed technology system from hardware to software with its industrial intelligent computer with microsecond - level real - time response, dual - kernel MetaOS operating system, and open MetaFacture programming platform. This technological achievement not only meets the strict requirements of high - end industrial fields for high real - time performance and strong computing power but also substantially surpasses international products in key performance. Yueke Venture Capital's investment in Zhongke Times is precisely because it is optimistic about its ability to break the monopoly of foreign manufacturers with self - developed technologies and promote the development of the Chinese manufacturing industry towards intelligence, high - end, and autonomy. It is believed that Zhongke Times will continue to contribute to the continuous upgrading and ecological independence of Chinese industry.

Zhang Xiaozhong, Party Secretary and Chairman of Guangzhou Development Zone Investment Group, said: The industrial control system is the "central nervous system" of the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. In the trend of high computing power, complex motion control, and artificial intelligence, for China's industrial manufacturing industry to move towards new - type industrialization, it needs to fundamentally "upgrade" and "penetrate" the traditional automation market with independent technologies to achieve industrial upgrading. Zhongke Times' PC - architecture industrial intelligent computer products break through traditional control solutions. By self - developing a new generation of industrial controllers, operating systems, and software ecosystems through computer architecture and software - defined technologies, it is expected to break the monopoly of foreign manufacturers such as Siemens and Beckhoff in the mid - to high - end industrial control field. Through its investment in Zhongke Times, Guangzhou Development Zone Investment Group firmly believes in its potential to contribute to the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the industrial sector in the Greater Bay Area in the future and expects it to become a "leading enterprise in the national manufacturing industry transformation and upgrading industrial chain."