36Kr Exclusive | "Lobster Mobility" Completes Nearly 100 Million Yuan Angel Round Financing: Globally Launches AI Mobility Assistant
Text by | Liao Yao
Recently, 36Kr learned that the AI mobility brand "RideClaw.ai" announced that it has completed an angel - round financing of nearly 100 million RMB. At the same time, it globally launched an AI personal mobility assistant deeply integrated with the OpenClaw open - source framework. "RideClaw.ai" aims to reshape the global users' travel experience through natural language interaction and intelligent decision - making. This round of financing was jointly invested by multiple well - known institutions and industrial investors. The funds will be mainly used for the technological iteration of the multi - Agent collaboration platform, the establishment of an AI scientist team, and the global market promotion layout, and to further accelerate the large - scale popularization of AI mobility solutions.
The era of "0 commission" is coming, and AI is reshaping the large - scale mobility industry
In 2025, the global business travel market will reach 1.57 trillion US dollars, with an annual growth rate of over 6.6%. Among the "four basic necessities of life", travel, as a high - frequency, essential, and decision - heavy core life scenario, is undergoing a reconstruction and upgrade of its underlying logic in the current AI era. At the beginning of 2026, OpenClaw promoted the transformation of edge - side AI from "inference" to "execution", reconstructing the ability boundary of edge - side AI, making AI no longer just a "mouth" to answer questions, but a "hand" and "foot" that can really do things.
"RideClaw.ai is equivalent to the travel version of Manus." The RideClaw.ai team pointed out. "Manus helps you make PPTs and websites, while 'RideClaw.ai' focuses on being an AI assistant in the travel field, such as hailing a taxi, booking flights, reserving hotels, and making full - journey itinerary plans. It enables every business traveler to have an administrative assistant that was previously only available to bosses or executives." The core logic of RideClaw.ai is that users only need to input their intentions, and the AI is responsible for recognition, price comparison, planning, and finally placing orders. Relying on the OpenClaw open - source ecosystem and deeply focusing on the travel scenario, RideClaw.ai has achieved a personal preference closed - loop of 'the more you use it, the more it understands you'.
Manus solves the problem of office intelligence, while RideClaw.ai solves the problem of travel intelligence. Different from most travel tools that mainly offer "advisory - style suggestions", RideClaw.ai focuses more on users' schedule management and solves the problem of where users should be at what time. From the full - link automatic mode of 'personal itinerary calendar → automatic business travel planning → confirmation of reservation → offline fulfillment', users do not need to switch back and forth between multiple platforms for price comparison, truly achieving a one - stop travel solution.
In terms of business model, RideClaw.ai completely breaks the traditional commission model of the travel industry and adopts a "membership subscription system" similar to the Costco model. Users can enjoy the most cost - effective travel services provided by the platform through the subscription fee without incurring additional hidden costs. The platform has a built - in real - time price comparison engine across the network, which can intelligently analyze price fluctuation trends and accurately capture price troughs. Service providers and suppliers can skip the platform commission link and obtain higher returns. The "0 commission" model finally forms a new win - win ecosystem for all three parties: "users save worry and money, merchants increase revenue and efficiency, and the platform realizes long - term value".
The Sage platform, the infrastructure of the AI travel industry: The efficiency revolution of Token
"The Token efficiency is increased by 60%, creating an OpenClaw for the vertical travel field." The Sage multi - intelligent agent collaboration platform, in which the RideClaw.ai team has deeply participated and contributed, makes complex tasks much simpler. The Sage platform enables multiple specialized Agents to work in a coordinated manner. For example, the "price comparison Agent" focuses on comparing real - time prices from global supply ends, the "itinerary planning Agent" is responsible for planning and optimizing routes, and the "emergency Agent" stands by to handle emergencies at any time. This division of labor can greatly reduce the Token consumption of a single travel service, which means completing more complex travel tasks with less computing power cost. It is worth mentioning that traditional front - end and back - end engineers can build efficient and usable applications based on Sage. They can quickly launch travel - related products with the help of the platform's capabilities without having to master complex AI technologies in depth.
The Sage platform has been released on GitHub. For the travel industry, whether it is a vehicle transportation enterprise, an airline ticket agency, a regional chain hotel, or a vertical travel platform, practitioners can call the Agent capabilities of the Sage platform through the API interface. The RideClaw.ai team added: "Sage has built an AI infrastructure that can be called by the entire large - scale travel industry, aiming to provide callable and evolvable travel intelligent agents for global AI developers and users."
Ten - year industry precipitation, dual - track global promotion: Breaking through in both domestic popularization and European and American business travel
In terms of market layout, RideClaw.ai targets the business travel population in Europe and the United States overseas, adopts a strategy of simultaneous release and dual - track promotion in both domestic and overseas markets, taking into account both the mass popular market and the high - end business travel market, with the goal of creating a one - stop travel assistant on a global scale.
RideClaw.ai is jointly created by Dudu Smart Mobility, top AI scientists, and a native technology team. The core members come from companies such as Meta, Amazon Zoox, Lyft L5, Kimi, and Tencent, as well as an algorithm team composed of professors from QS TOP20 universities and doctors from Tsinghua University and the University of New South Wales, covering all fields such as technology R & D, industrial operation, and algorithm optimization.
Dudu Smart Mobility has ten - year precipitation in the travel field and has long served thousands of enterprise customers such as Huawei, BYD, ByteDance, and Xiaomi, providing employee shuttle buses and customized travel services. It is this B - end experience that enables the team to accurately capture many pain points in corporate business travel. "Enterprise customers with millions of employees said that they found that corporate taxi - hailing and ticket - booking applications are even more expensive than personal bookings." Chen Zhichao, the co - founder of Dudu Smart Mobility, said: "Bosses are concerned about the overall business travel cost, but there is no AI in the company to help them make overall optimization. The traditional system cannot achieve personalized control to meet the different preferences of different employees. In addition, factors such as holiday price fluctuations lead to a large amount of approval work, which has become a common problem in corporate business travel management."
"The essence of these problems is the lack of intelligent cost management." Chen Zhichao added. The ten - year accumulation of population segmentation, supply - chain data, and fulfillment capabilities has become the most core barrier for RideClaw.ai. The team predicts that in the future AI era, the most valuable startups must be those that can standardize offline service fulfillment. "In addition to being user - friendly, it is also AI - friendly and large - model - friendly. RideClaw.ai aggregates more data and travel services for different models to call. The company plans to expand the services of RideClaw.ai to more enterprise - level applications within the next year and quickly promote them in domestic and overseas markets in the form of a subscription system, providing more intelligent and personalized travel services for hundreds of millions of users."
Views and messages from investors:
Wu Shichun, the founding partner of Plum Ventures: We have been paying long - term attention to the implementation opportunities of AI in vertical industries. Travel is a typical scenario of "high - frequency, essential, and decision - heavy". I believe that "RideClaw.ai" can become a great global company in the AI era!
Jerry Xie Ran from Matrix Partners China: The era of Agent 2.0 has arrived. "RideClaw.ai" is not simply adding an AI dialog box to travel, but reconstructing the connection mode between people, vehicles, and services from the bottom. The upgrade of the travel mode will bring a brand - new life experience to users.
Li Junting from Xizhilang Group: "Sage" provides an AI underlying standard for mainstream travel scenarios. It enables developers and users to obtain more efficient and diversified travel services with fewer Tokens. We look forward to "RideClaw.ai" in the open - source era bringing "travel freedom" to global users!