The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies QCraft: 2 models, 3 deployments across 2 regions, $200.0M raised. 2 sources back the record.
CategoryRobotaxis
Overview
Beijing-based autonomous driving company developing the full-stack L4 Driven-by-QCraft software stack for urban and highway Navigate-on-Autopilot (NOA). Founded in 2019 by CEO Dr. Yu Qian (James Yu), CTO Hou Cong, COO Wang Kun, and Chief Scientist Da Fang, the company's NOA technology is deployed in more than one million production vehicles via OEM partnerships and powers a robotaxi fleet in Suzhou. Closed a 100-million-USD Series D in March 2026 to advance physical-AI and world-model research, with a robotaxi full-scale deployment targeted for 2027.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 3 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries D post-money
Key facts
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Data & sources
Web sources
2
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Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
QCraft AV
QCraft autonomous vehicle platform for urban self-driving.
Current platform
Driven-by-QCraft
QCraft's full-stack L4 autonomous driving software stack, covering perception, planning, and control for complex urban and highway scenarios. The Driven-by-QCraft platform powers QPilot Pro urban NOA on a single 128-TOPS chip and a dual NVIDIA DRIVE Orin robotaxi configuration; it is deployed in over 1 million production vehicles via OEM partnerships and in a Suzhou robotaxi fleet.
Partnerships
Every company QCraft has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
- 2Ouster1× joint1 total
- 3TÜV Rheinland1× joint1 total
Most recent
- QCraft x TUV Rheinland2025-09-10with TÜV Rheinlandoperating
- QCraft x Ouster2021-11-12with Ousteroperating
- QCraft x NVIDIA2021-11-10with NVIDIAoperating
QCraft on the deployment map
View the global map3 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2023. Explore where QCraft's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full QCraft deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (4)
- Yu Qian (James Yu) Co-founder, Chairman & CEOsecondary-verified
- Hou Cong Co-founder & CTO, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Wang Kun Co-founder & COO, Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Da Fang Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (4)
- Wang Kuncofounderno longer at company
- Hou Congcofounderno longer at company
- Da Fangcofounderno longer at company
- Yu Qian (James Yu)sole
Safety record
No incidents on record for QCraft.
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)
- QCraft3 deployments
Brains developed (1)
- QCraft Driverfoundation-model · commercial
Recent coverage
QCraft in third-party press
QCraft Unveils Physical AI Model and 500+ TOPS Intelligent Driving Solution at Auto China 2026 in Beijing
QCraft Closes 100 Million USD New Series D Financing to Advance Physical AI for Autonomous Driving and Mobility
QCraft Partners With TUV Rheinland to Strengthen Safety-Led Autonomous Driving in Europe
Peers
88 peers across 1 segment. Every QCraft competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
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57 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 4969.122215850638) · leader Waymo at 6990%
- Autonomous A2Zdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Cowarobotdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Haomo.AIdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Momenta Globaldirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Robotic Researchdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Zerondirect competitor(inferred)strong
Financial state
- Total funding
- $200.0M
- Employees
- 125
- Reporting period
- ? to 2026-03-31
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- 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
3 total · 3 operating
Every company QCraft has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- QCraft x TUV Rheinland2025-09-10with TÜV Rheinlandoperating
- QCraft x Ouster2021-11-12with Ousteroperating
- QCraft x NVIDIA2021-11-10with NVIDIAoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1108 total
- 2Ouster1× joint1 total
- 3TÜV Rheinland1× joint1 total
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- development2025-09-10operating
- technology2021-11-12operating
- QCraft x NVIDIAwithNVIDIA1108technology2021-11-10operating
Funding rounds (5)
QCraft’s 2 disclosed rounds, $200M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series D2026-03-22
$100M · $1.2B post
Investors: Wonderland Capital (lead), Ningbo Ninghai Xingtaihe Fund (strategic), Liangxi Sci-Tech Innovation Industry Fund (Bohua Capital) (strategic), Huade Sci-Tech Innovation (strategic)
- Series C+2024-10-28
Investors: Zhulu Juhang Fund (lead)
- Series C2024-06-14
Investors: Zhongguancun Science City (lead), Cuihu Fund (co_lead)
- Series B12022-12-02
Investors: CICC Capital Huirong Fund (lead), TCL Capital (strategic), Genesis Capital (follow), Yuansheng Capital (follow)
- Series A+2021-08-16
$100M(reported) · $600M post
Investors: YF Capital (lead), Genesis Capital (co_lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in QCraft’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries D funding round
2026-03-22Series D raising $100000000
PartnershipQCraft x TUV Rheinland
2025-09-10QCraft and TUV Rheinland signed a strategic partnership to strengthen safety-led autonomous driving in Europe. QCraft demonstrated its urban NOA solution on Qualcomm's SA8650P platform in production vehicles as part of the collaboration, advancing toward European market entry.
Funding roundSeries C+ funding round
2024-10-28Series C+
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2024-06-14Series C
Funding roundSeries B1 funding round
2022-12-02Series B1
PartnershipQCraft x Ouster
2021-11-12QCraft partnered with Ouster to incorporate Ouster lidar sensors into its Driven-by-QCraft autonomous driving platform for robobus and robotaxi fleets. QCraft launched China's first regularly operated 5G robobus project in Suzhou using Ouster lidar.
PartnershipQCraft x NVIDIA
2021-11-10QCraft adopted NVIDIA DRIVE Orin SoCs to power its third-generation Driven-by-QCraft autonomous driving hardware platform. The partnership enabled the first DRIVE Orin-based L4 robotaxi fleet deployment in China (Suzhou, Sep 2022), using a dual-Orin configuration delivering 508 TOPS.
Funding roundSeries A+ funding round
2021-08-16Series A+ raising $100000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 27, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2023
Driven-by-QCraft at Jinhua, Zhejiang, China
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedSep 21, 2022
Driven-by-QCraft at Suzhou, China
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJul 1, 2020
Driven-by-QCraft at Suzhou, China
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
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Review state
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Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for QCraft.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning QCraft from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
QCraft Unveils Physical AI Model and 500+ TOPS Intelligent Driving Solution at Auto China 2026 in Beijing
At Auto China 2026, CEO James Yu unveiled the QCraft Physical AI Model and a 500+ TOPS next-generation driving solution, scaling NOA to 1M+ vehicles.
QCraft Closes 100 Million USD New Series D Financing to Advance Physical AI for Autonomous Driving and Mobility
QCraft announced a 100-million-USD Series D to advance physical AI for autonomous driving, with NOA in 1M+ vehicles and a robotaxi pilot planned for 2026.
QCraft Partners With TUV Rheinland to Strengthen Safety-Led Autonomous Driving in Europe
QCraft and TUV Rheinland signed a strategic partnership to strengthen safety-led autonomous driving in Europe, demonstrating urban NOA on Qualcomm's SA8650P platform.
QCraft Launches Robotaxi Fleet, Powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, in Suzhou, China
QCraft began operating an L4 robotaxi fleet in Suzhou with ride-hailing partner T3GO, the first DRIVE Orin-based robotaxi deployment in China.
Chinese self-driving startup QCraft's robotaxi fleet powered by Nvidia DRIVE Orin begins operations
QCraft's robotaxi fleet, each using dual NVIDIA DRIVE Orin SoCs, began public operations in Suzhou, Jiangsu province.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/qcraft.md
- RSS feed: /companies/qcraft/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/37a08a41-0b40-4637-acbb-f32f15d57721
- Revision history: /companies/qcraft/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
Autonomous driving solution supplier QCraft announced on December 2 the completion of its Series B1 financing round, which raised hundreds of millions of yuan.
During the Emerge 2021 conference held in Beijing on Sept. 19, TechNode talked to Da Fang, co-founder and chief scientist at QCraft, on the developments of auto
...Source: https://cnev.co/5udozwd Transcript: China EV Post is reporting that Chinese autonomous driving startup QCraft just closed a $100 million Series D fun
@BBC Tech Now featured QCraft in its look at how China's autonomous driving industry is moving to mass deployment globally. CEO James Yu spoke with the BBC abo
QCraft, a world-leading provider of general autonomous driving solutions. Through this systematic introduction of QCraft's technology and production, we will sh
Heat Index
Category contender81/100
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
QCraft draws attention at the 15th percentile but verifies reality at the 37th percentile among AVs. Hype Gap -22.2, 43rd widest among AVs.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 3 verified deployments. Well-capitalized with $200M raised and recent funding activity. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
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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 11, 2026