# QCraft: autonomous vehicle company

Canonical ID: `37a08a41-0b40-4637-acbb-f32f15d57721`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Dr. [Yu Qian (James Yu)](/people/yu-qian.md), Co-founder & Chairman
- **CTO:** [Hou Cong](/people/hou-cong.md), Co-founder
- **COO:** [Wang Kun](/people/wang-kun.md), Co-founder
- **Chief Scientist:** [Da Fang](/people/da-fang.md), Co-founder
- **HQ:** Beijing, China
- **Founded:** 2019
- **Funding:** [$249M total over 7 rounds; $100M Series D (Mar 2026)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Key investors:** ByteDance, IDG Capital, [Genesis Capital](/investors/genesis-capital.md), Lenovo, [Wonderland Capital](/investors/wonderland-capital.md)
- **Product:** [Driven-by-QCraft](/models/driven-by-qcraft.md) L4 stack; QPilot Pro urban NOA (128-TOPS single-chip); Longzhou SPACE robobus
- **Deployments:** NOA in 1M+ production vehicles; [robotaxi](/robotaxis) fleet (Suzhou, Sep 2022, with T3GO); robobus (Suzhou 2020, Jinhua)
- **Stage:** Pilot/early-commercial — [robotaxi](/robotaxis) full-scale deployment targeted 2027
- **Partnerships:** [NVIDIA](/companies/nvidia.md) (DRIVE Orin), [TÜV Rheinland](/companies/tuv-rheinland.md) (safety), Qualcomm (SA8650P), T3GO (ride-hail), [Ouster](/companies/ouster.md) (lidar)

- **Slug:** qcraft
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2019
- **HQ:** Beijing, China
- **Funding total (USD):** 249000000
- **Category:** [Robotaxis](/robotaxis)

## Models

- [Driven-by-QCraft](/models/driven-by-qcraft.md) (av) (id: `ce8648f7-33c7-4bcd-bc1f-7d2173d60679`)

## Current leadership (8)

- [Yu Qian (James Yu)](/people/yu-qian.md) Co-founder, Chairman & CEO (secondary-verified)
- [Yu Qian (James Yu)](/people/yu-qian.md) Co-founder (secondary-verified)
- [Hou Cong](/people/hou-cong.md) Co-founder & CTO (secondary-verified)
- [Wang Kun](/people/wang-kun.md) Co-founder & COO (secondary-verified)
- [Hou Cong](/people/hou-cong.md) Co-founder (secondary-verified)
- [Wang Kun](/people/wang-kun.md) Co-founder (secondary-verified)
- [Da Fang](/people/da-fang.md) Co-founder & Chief Scientist (secondary-verified)
- [Da Fang](/people/da-fang.md) Co-founder (secondary-verified)

## Partnerships (3)

- [QCraft x TUV Rheinland](/partnerships/qcraft-x-tuv-rheinland.md) with TÜV Rheinland _development_
- [QCraft x Ouster](/partnerships/qcraft-x-ouster.md) with Ouster _technology_
- [QCraft x NVIDIA](/partnerships/qcraft-x-nvidia.md) with NVIDIA _technology_

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is QCraft?

Beijing-based autonomous driving company developing the full-stack L4 [Driven-by-QCraft](https://qcraft.ai) 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](/companies/qcraft) 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.

### What does QCraft make?

QCraft has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Driven-by-QCraft (QCraft builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).

### Who competes with QCraft?

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to QCraft building in the same form factors include Tesla, Aurora Innovation, Nuro, Waymo.

### Where is QCraft headquartered?

QCraft is headquartered in Beijing, China.

### How much funding has QCraft raised?

QCraft has raised approximately $249M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does QCraft operate robots?

QCraft is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is QCraft a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, QCraft ranks in roughly the top 15% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was QCraft founded?

QCraft was founded in 2019.


## Sources (2)

1. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260322358063/en/QCraft-Closes-%24100-Million-New-Series-D-Financing-to-Advance-Physical-AI-for-Autonomous-Driving-and-Mobility
2. https://www.qcraft.ai/

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