BridgeDP completes tens of millions in Angel Round financing

Recently, the embodiment intelligence startup BridgeDP (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "BridgeDP") announced the completion of tens of millions of RMB in angel round financing, co-led by Zhengxuan Investment and Fosun Rafe Investment. Easy Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor for BridgeDP in this transaction.

BridgeDP is a market-leading developer of a locomotion for general-purpose robots, securing seed round investment from YC China, founded by Dr. Lu Qi, at the end of 2023. This angel round financing will be used to accelerate product technology development and commercial expansion, helping the company to continue expanding its leading advantage and leading the global embedded cerebellum industry development.

In the vibrant field of embodied intelligence in 2024, the BridgeDP team quickly achieved market validation, securing a leading position by helping multiple humanoid robot companies complete the development of reinforcement learning motion control demos from 0 to 1. At the World Robot Conference (WRC) in August 2024, out of more than 20 humanoid robot manufacturers, 11 purchased BridgeDP’s motion control solutions.

BridgeDP's mission is to enhance and popularize the motion capabilities of legged robots. Today's motion control algorithm development remains in the handcrafted stage, with a cumbersome and complex development process, where generating each motion takes a significant amount of time. The BridgeDP team aims to create a product that accelerates this process, particularly crossing the sim2real gap, reducing the time to develop new motions from weeks to hours, making future motion editing on humanoid robots as simple and user-friendly as editing text in Microsoft Word.

// BridgeDP's Founder and CEO, Sun Yangxing said:

We believe that there is a vast space for deep exploration in the field of legged motion control. There remains a significant gap from human motor control abilities, especially in learning new motions and adaptive control. We aim to make it universal and easy to use, thereby activating developers in the entire market and enabling them to fully utilize the motion capabilities of legged robots to develop broad application scenarios.

// Yelijuan, Senior Investment Director of Fosun Rafe Investment, said:

On the path to universal humanoids, we prefer teams that combine cutting-edge academic exploration with engineering implementation capabilities. As the body and brain manufacturers emerge, BridgeDP has a clear and long-term positioning - robot cerebellum, delivering core motion control capabilities to clients. Locomotion is the foundation for legged robots to unleash brain intelligence and get to work, and walking steadily and flexibly is just the first step in motion control. We believe that BridgeDP, with its rapid breakthroughs in locomotion, also has the capability to extend into manipulation and then WBC, working with ecosystem partners to strive for the realization of cross-embodiment. The road is long and winding, but they are young, and we are patient.