Boden AI raises hundreds of millions of yuan in A+ and A++ rounds

What's the deal? Ningbo-based Boden AIDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → (博登智能 / Boden Smart) has closed back-to-back A+ and A++ funding rounds totalling several hundred million yuan. The deal was led by a consortium including CDH Investments (鼎晖百孚), Qingxin CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → (清新资本), Luxin Venture CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → (鲁信创投), and Shenzhen Capital Group (深产投). Proceeds will go toward upgrading Boden's auto-labelling algorithm platforms and R&D into unsupervised data processing.

The company. Founded in 2019 by Dr. Jie Zhao — formerly an algorithm engineer on mass-production ADAS projects including the 2019 BMW 5 series — Boden AI runs a full toolchain for the autonomous-driving data loop: collection, cleaning, anonymisation of plates/faces, and intelligent annotation. Its cloud-based BASE annotation platform handles multi-sensor data with bounding boxes, semantic segmentation and key points; the company also operates its own ADAS calibration room and an ISA (Intelligent Speed Assistance) evaluation system. Clients and partners include Nvidia, GeelyDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, RoboSense, and Leapmotor.

The signal. Closing two successive rounds in quick succession signals strong investor appetite at a moment when Chinese deep-tech is still pulling in capital despite the broader venture slowdown. The data-annotation layer remains a contested pick-and-shovel category for autonomous driving — every major OEM and tier-1 needs labelled multi-sensor data at scale, but many are building it in-house. Boden's bet is that a calibrated, multi-tenant platform plus a move into unsupervised methods is a more defensible position than pure manual labelling.

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