Zhongke Times Secures 300 Million Yuan in Series B2 Round, Setting Record for Largest Single Investment in Industrial Computing in 2025 | Exclusive Report by Yingke
Yingke learned that "Zhongke Times", an enterprise focusing on the research of industrial intelligent computers, has completed a Series B2 financing of 300 million yuan. We have summarized the information of this round of financing and several highlights of the company:
1. Financing Amount and Investment Institutions
Financing Round: Series B2
Financing Scale: 300 million RMB
Investors: Yueke Financial, Guangzhou Development Zone Investment Group, BOC Capital & Shunchuang Industry Investment. Existing shareholders such as Bojiang Capital, Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, Zhuoyuan Asia, Guoxin Guozheng, etc. participated in the additional investment with an oversubscribed amount.
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 1 billion yuan
2. Basic Information of the Company
Establishment Time: 2022
Registered Address: Shenzhen
Technological 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 high real - time and strong computing characteristics. The response speed of hard real - time tasks (which can be stably maintained at the microsecond level) and the real - time performance, stability, and axis - carrying capacity of multi - axis synchronous motion control remain at the global leading and cutting - edge levels.
In terms of software, the dual - domain operating system (MetaOS) independently developed by Zhongke Times adopts a dual - kernel architecture, which ensures the "hard real - time" deterministic execution of control tasks and is also compatible with a rich general IT ecosystem. The independently developed unified development environment (MetaFacture) has extremely strong openness and scalability characteristics, making it convenient and easy to use.
3. Market Size
According to estimates, the global industrial computing market size will be approximately 80 billion US dollars in 2025. In the next five years, the global industrial computing market is expected to have an annual compound growth rate of about 5.4%. By 2030, the global industrial computing market is expected to exceed 100 billion US dollars.
In 2025, China's industrial computing market will account for more than 35% of the global market, with an estimated market size of 190 to 220 billion RMB, making it the largest single market in the world. In the next five years, driven by the transformation of the manufacturing industry, the annual compound growth rate of the Chinese market will be significantly higher than the global market, reaching 10% - 15%. By 2030, the market size of China's industrial computing market is expected to reach 350 to 400 billion RMB.
4. Company Performance
Since its establishment, Zhongke Times' revenue has achieved a rapid growth of more than three times for consecutive years. The company will gradually focus on the mid - to - high - end control fields such as the general semiconductor, general energy, and general precision machining industries. It has established close cooperation with multiple benchmark and strategic customers in the above - mentioned industries, and there are several customers with an annual contract amount or supply volume exceeding tens of millions of RMB, which can be replicated in batches.
A new growth point, embodied robots - As an industrial intelligent computer with global leading characteristics in high real - time, strong computing, and hard real - time task speed, the product features of Zhongke Times are highly in line with the core needs of the emerging embodied robot industry. Embodied robots need to process a large amount 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. The industrial intelligent computer of Zhongke Times has been successfully applied in high - end industrial scenarios such as semiconductors and CNC, and can well provide a high - speed, high - precision, and highly integrated computing platform for embodied robots. At present, the company's relevant products have been applied in batches in domestic leading embodied robot brands, and this direction will become a strong growth point for the company in the future.
5. Team Background
The founding team of the company comes from the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the listed companies incubated by it. The team members come from companies such as Alibaba DAMO Academy, Beckhoff Automation, Siemens, and Schneider Electric. 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 technological 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 since its establishment, with a cumulative financing amount of over 1 billion yuan. 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 also included in the list of "40 Under 40" by Fortune China for two consecutive years in 2024 and 2025.
6. Company's Views
Yingke: 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, precision, 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 - type industrial computing platform with strong computing power, horizontal universality, and open and easy - to - use features, 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 ranks first among Germany's hidden champions. Its revenue in China is about 3 billion RMB, and its global revenue is about 2 billion euros.
Yingke: What are the core advantages of Zhongke Times' industrial intelligent computer?
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 from issuing an instruction to its execution, which measures the "speed" of the system, and jitter refers to the fluctuation range of the latency time, which measures the stability of the system. The latency of a single instruction set in traditional industrial controllers is basically about two milliseconds, while we can achieve about 50 microseconds, which is a full 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 equipment. We have a great advantage over our peers in these two basic software.
Yingke: What is the future development direction?
Zhongke Times: First of all, we will continue to increase investment in technology. In the future, we will still focus on the mid - to - high - end market, concentrating on fields such as general energy, general semiconductors, and general precision machining, and going deeper and more thoroughly. Another distinctive feature is internationalization. We currently have offices in Russia and Vietnam and a R & D center in Germany. While selling our 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 response speed of embodied equipment is relatively slow. Our products have been fully verified and applied in these high - end industrial scenarios, so they will naturally be well - adapted to embodied scenarios, and only some changes need to be made in hardware form and algorithms. Therefore, after this round of financing, we will add a new product line in the field of embodied robots.
7. Investors' Views
Lu Junji, the 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 industrial control system market 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, the dual - kernel MetaOS operating system, and the open MetaFacture programming platform. This technological achievement not only meets the strict requirements of the high - end industrial field for high real - time and strong computing power but also substantially surpasses international products in key performance indicators. 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 China's manufacturing industry towards intelligence, high - end, and autonomy. It is believed that Zhongke Times will continue to contribute to the continuous upgrading and ecological self - reliance of China's industry.
Zhang Xiaozhong, the Party secretary and chairman of Guangzhou Development Zone Investment Group, said: The industrial control system is the "central nerve" of the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. Under the trends of high - computing power, complex motion control, and artificial intelligence, for China's industrial manufacturing to move towards new - type industrialization, it needs to fundamentally "upgrade" and "penetrate" the traditional automation market with self - developed technologies to achieve industrial upgrading. Zhongke Times' industrial intelligent computer products with a PC architecture 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 the investment in Zhongke Times, the Investment Group firmly believes in its potential to promote the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the industrial sector in the Greater Bay Area in the future, and it is expected to become the "leading enterprise in the industrial chain for the transformation and upgrading of the national manufacturing industry."