NeoBay
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NeoBay is an innovation and entrepreneurship cluster co-founded in 2015 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Minhang District government and Shanghai Land Group, operated by Shanghai Zero Bay Venture Investment Co., Ltd.
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NeoBay is an innovation and entrepreneurship cluster co-founded in 2015 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Minhang District government and Shanghai Land Group, operated by Shanghai Zero Bay Venture Investment Co., Ltd. It runs a seedbed-incubator-accelerator program for hard-tech startups founded by SJTU faculty, students and alumni, and anchors the ~17 sq km Greater NeoBay zone focused on AI, biomedicine and high-end equipment.
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- NeoBay
NeoBay is an innovation and entrepreneurship cluster co-founded in 2015 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Minhang District government and Shanghai Land Group, operated by Shanghai Zero Bay Venture Investment Co., Ltd. It runs a seedbed-incubator-accelerator program for hard-tech startups founded by SJTU faculty, students and alumni, and anchors the ~17 sq km Greater NeoBay zone focused on AI, biomedicine and high-end equipment.
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United States
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Entry Point 1
GTM consulting and execution services for tech startups and growth companies (fractional CMO, marketing-as-a-service, AI-accelerated GTM).
— - Telnyx
Carrier-grade communications and AI platform on its own global private network: programmable voice, SMS/MMS, SIP trunking, phone numbers, IoT eSIM connectivity, Voice AI agents (no-code conversational voice assistants) and AI inference/GPU compute; customers are developers, SaaS platforms and healthcare, retail, finance and other enterprises building communications and conversational AI apps on its network.
— - Vantora
Co-founds AI-native operating companies inside traditional-industry enterprises (in-enterprise incubation + COSMOS data ontology)
Undisclosed · $100M · 2026-09
$100M
China
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- SIMIC InnoSpring
Shanghai Xinwei Sci & Tech Development operates the SIMIC InnoSpring incubator, founded in 2014 in Jiading, Shanghai. Backed by the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (CAS), it incubates hard-tech startups in smart sensors, IoT, automotive electronics and integrated circuits, and was named one of Shanghai's first high-quality incubators in November 2023.
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Speech recognition and dialogue systems for enterprise contact centers, ultrasound triage in hospitals and broadcast audio monitoring
Series A · 2024-06
— - 驯鹿AI
LLM-based AI bots to replace all human customer service work
Series A · $15M · 2025-08
$15M
Europe
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Sona
AI scheduling, HR, payroll and workforce operations tools for frontline-workforce businesses
Series B · $100M · 2026-04
$100M - Arrakis
Designs, builds and deploys at scale AI agents that perform tasks in real-world operations for industrial companies
Series A · $30M · 2026-07
$30M - Cosmico
Managed digital talent marketplace connecting companies with digital professionals, creators and AI-augmented teams
Undisclosed · $21M · 2026-05
$21M
Other / unspecified
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Coxwave
Helping businesses analyze and understand user interactions with AI conversational systems such as chatbots
Undisclosed · $4M · 2024-02
$4M - Induced AI
AI-powered local browser RPA platform that combines browsing and web tools to automate enterprise workflows
Seed · $2M · 2023-10
$2M - Founders Catalyst
Venture studio that incubates and co-builds companies with founders, providing seed capital, operating playbooks and team-building support; applied AI (agents/vertical software) is one of five focus areas.
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