On October 27th, Beijing time, China self-driving startup Xiaoma Zhixing completed a new round of financing, with a post-investment valuation of US$ 6 billion and a financing amount of over US$ 3 million. The Ontario Pension Fund led the investment with a capital contribution of nearly US$ 2 million, and FAW Group also invested in this round. ?

With the completion of the new round of financing, the valuation of Xiaoma Zhixing has nearly doubled compared with the previous round, and it has secured the throne of China Autopilot Company as the king of valuation and financing. According to Pony's historical financing information, including the new round of financing, Pony's accumulated financing amount exceeds $1 billion. Pony financing history:

October p>22: completed the financing of over $3 million led by Ontario Pension Fund, with a valuation of $6 billion; ?

in February, 22, the second round of financing led by Toyota was completed, with a total financing amount of USD 462 million and a valuation of over USD 3 billion; ?

April, 219: obtained an investment of USD 5 million from Kunlun Wanwei; ?

July p>218: A+ round of financing was completed, with a financing amount of 12 million US dollars. The investment institutions include China Merchants Capital, Red Dot Venture Capital, Songhe Capital, etc. ?

January p>218: A round of financing was completed with a financing amount of USD 112 million. The investment institutions include Morningstar Capital (now renamed Wuyuan Capital), IDG Capital, Lenovo Star, DCM Capital, etc.

January p>217: angel round financing was completed, and the investment institutions were IDG Capital and Sequoia Capital.

Xiaoma Zhixing's new round of financing, both in terms of valuation and financing amount, has given confidence to China's autonomous driving industry. In fact, since 22, China's autonomous driving industry has been constantly hearing about financing. In the field of RoboTaxi, Didi Autopilot was reported by the media that it won over $5 million from Softbank Vision II Fund, and Xiaoma Zhixing received $462 million in financing. As for overseas, the biggest financing came from Waymo. Waymo officially announced that in the first round of external financing, it received a total of 3 billion US dollars of financing, which is also the largest single financing in the autonomous driving industry so far. However, Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, which has the largest cumulative financing in the world, has accumulated more than $7 billion in financing (including the unpaid amount).

The continuous injection of capital into the autonomous driving industry is also inseparable from the latest progress of Waymo. At the beginning of October 22, Waymo announced the launch of a completely unmanned taxi service in Phoenix. One? APP, users can call the real RoboTaxi service without the security officer.

in addition to the continuous capital injection of autopilot, the trial operation of RoboTaxi is also in full swing in various parts of China. Baidu Apollo has carried out trial operation of RoboTaxi in Beijing, Changsha, Cangzhou and other places. In addition, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Suzhou and other places have also carried out trial operation of RoboTaxi, including Didi Autopilot and AutoX in Shanghai. There are Xiaoma Zhixing and Wen Yuan Zhixing in Guangzhou. Suzhou has Momenta and so on. ?

in addition to the continuous financing and trial operation in the RoboTaxi field, Zhijia and Yuche, which are self-driving heavy trucks, also have good news recently. Zhijia also announced that it has obtained the list of 1, self-driving heavy trucks from Amazon in the United States. In the fields of automatic driving of harvesters, last mile delivery and unmanned cleaning, many players in various fields have obtained financing this year, and even some companies have obtained more than one round of financing.

the future of autonomous driving is definitely on its way! I hope to hear more, better and heavier news next. In addition to the news of financing, there is also the news of commercialization. The ultimate success of autonomous driving depends on the scale of commercialization. * * * Let's look forward to it.

This article comes from the author of Chejia, car home, and does not represent car home's standpoint.