The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Black Sesame Technologies: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $495.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
Overview
Black Sesame Technologies is a Chinese AI chip company developing autonomous driving processors and ADAS chips. Listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the company received strategic investment from Bosch's Boyuan Capital. Key products include the Huashan series of automotive AI SoCs for L2/L3 autonomous driving.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Robot
Technology
CEO
HKEX
Key product
Strategic investor
IPO
Partners
Financial stage
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Black Sesame Technologies has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1BlackBerry QNX1× joint1 total
- 2ECARX1× joint3 total
Most recent
- Black Sesame x ECARX2023-01-01with BlackBerry QNXoperating
Black Sesame Technologies on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Black Sesame Technologies's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Shan Jizhang CEO, Founderreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Shan Jizhangno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Black Sesame Technologies.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Black Sesame Technologies2 deployments
Recent coverage
Black Sesame Technologies in third-party press
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
Financial state
- Total funding
- $495.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_disclosed
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Black Sesame Technologies has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Black Sesame x ECARX2023-01-01with BlackBerry QNXoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1BlackBerry QNX1× joint1 total
- 2ECARX1× joint3 total
Funding rounds (3)
Black Sesame Technologies’s 3 disclosed rounds, $495M in total, oldest to newest.
- Funding
$165M(reported)
Investors: Robert Bosch GmbH
- Funding
$165M(reported)
Investors: Robert Bosch GmbH
- Funding
$165M(reported)
Investors: Robert Bosch GmbH
Timeline
Every recorded move in Black Sesame Technologies’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipBlack Sesame x ECARX
2023-01-01ECARX partnered with Black Sesame Technologies and BlackBerry (QNX) to jointly deploy ECARX's Skyland ADAS platform, using Black Sesame's Huashan-series automotive AI chips for advanced driver-assistance computing.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 7, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Huashan A1000 at China, Asia
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Huashan A1000 at United States (multiple hotel chains)
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Black Sesame Technologies.Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Black Sesame Technologies from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Black Sesame Technologies — Wikipedia
Black Sesame Technologies is a Chinese AI chip company headquartered in Wuhan, developing autonomous driving chips. IPO on HKEX August 2024.
ECARX Partners with Black Sesame Technologies and BlackBerry
ECARX partners with Black Sesame Technologies and BlackBerry for autonomous driving computing chip solutions.
Black Sesame Technologies and BlackBerry QNX Team Up for Autonomous Driving
Black Sesame Technologies partners with BlackBerry QNX to create safe autonomous driving solutions for Chinese automakers.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/black-sesame.md
- RSS feed: /companies/black-sesame/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/431965b3-e40f-4409-9de7-f79864ccd206
- Revision history: /companies/black-sesame/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
Video
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Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Black Sesame Technologies draws attention at the 13th percentile but verifies reality at the 33rd percentile among other robots. Hype Gap -20.6, 134th widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 6, 2026