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Market Moves

Six-month-old Chinese BCI startup raises RMB 330 million angel round

Shanghai Active Technology, founded February 2026, closed a RMB 330 million angel round announced on 3 August 2026. Gasgoo and 36Kr describe the raise as the largest single angel round in the Chinese BCI sector to date, though the lead investor was not disclosed. The company is building a full-link invasive BCI with three product lines including a 1024-channel motor system called Tianshu, which has obtained a type inspection report and is preparing to launch clinical trials.

Aug 5

Industry News

Chinese BCI programmes produced four tangible results in July

In one month, four separate Chinese brain-computer interface programmes each produced a public result. Neuracle wrote the world's first commercial prescription for an invasive BCI at Huashan Hospital on 13 July. NeuroXess ran a two-patient cross-city Chinese chess demonstration between Shanghai and Nanchang. StairMed's investigational trial put three quadriplegic patients into paid remote work. And at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, a paralysed fine-arts graduate from Shenzhen demoed a mind-controlled wheelchair he had built himself with LLM-assisted DIY.

Jul 31