{"id":6656,"date":"2026-04-17T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/?page_id=6656"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:27:45","slug":"report-china-mar-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dealstreetasia.com\/dealsbarometer\/report-china-mar-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"China Deals Barometer Report: Startup funding hits 15-month high in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6656\" class=\"elementor elementor-6656\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-335ebad elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"335ebad\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ea7c338\" data-id=\"ea7c338\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-1364919 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1364919\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-13b7cfd\" data-id=\"13b7cfd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea5f09d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ea5f09d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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This strong post-holiday market rebound saw March\u2019s deal volume reach a historical high. The month\u2019s total financing of $7.8 billion also set a new record in 15 months.<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-479070 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dealstreetwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/202603_China-Deal-Review_1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2028\" height=\"1550\" \/><\/p><h3><strong>Megadeals count grows<\/strong><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large-ticket transactions remained a defining feature of dealmaking in Greater China, with March recording 22 megadeals (investments of $100 million and above) worth more than $4.6 billion.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strong dealmaking across the board led to megadeals accounting for a smaller portion of the overall financing &#8211; at 58.1% in March, versus 67.7% in February. However, the tally of megadeals still exceeded February\u2019s 20, with their aggregate value representing a 27.4% increase from about $3.6 billion raised across such deals in the prior month.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 22 megadeals in March featured fundraisers from a wide range of industries, such as <\/span>business support services<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span>auto &amp; parts<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span>semiconductor<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span>biotech<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A dive into their business specifics reveals a greater focus on policy-aligned verticals among deep-pocketed investors, including <\/span>embodied intelligence, autonomous driving, electric\/hybrid vehicles, AI-powered chipmaking<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span>healthtech<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-479071 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dealstreetwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/202603_China-Deal-Review_2-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1378\" height=\"2560\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biotech recorded just one megadeal in March, but the $787-million financing into <\/span>Earendil Labs <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from investors like Dimension Capital, DST Global, INCE Capital, and Luminous Ventures made the startup the top fundraiser of the month. Operating in China through its affiliate Helixon Therapeutics, Earendil Labs plans to invest the new funding in advancing its AI-driven R&amp;D platform and pipeline of first-in-class and best-in-class therapies for patients with serious diseases.\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beijing-headquartered humanoid robot developer <\/span>Galbot <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attracted $362.7 million from a consortium of largely state-affiliated investors to become the second-biggest fundraiser of the month. Galbot <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/jdQ2SuK1T2tYyvoo23FyVg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">claimed its position as<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cthe highest-valued privately held humanoid robot maker in China\u201d upon the completion of the megadeal, which came a few months after Bloomberg <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-12\/humanoid-robot-maker-galbot-said-to-pick-banks-for-2026-hk-ipo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> its consideration of an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong this year.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With an estimated post-money valuation of over 20 billion yuan ($2.9 billion), <\/span>Galbot<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was also one of the nine embodied intelligence startups that had raised a megadeal in March. <\/span>Simplexity Robotics, PsiBot, Noetix Robotics, GigaAI, PaXini Tech, ROBOTERA, Lightwheel, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span> D-Robotics<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> closed a funding round of at least $100 million, amid wide market expectations on these top players in China moving towards large-scale industrial and commercial adoption in the next few years.<\/span><\/p><h3><strong>Investor fervour for Embodied AI sustains<\/strong><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sustained investor fervour for embodied intelligence drove <\/span>business support services <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to retain<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> its position as the most popular industry in Greater China.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With 32 deals raising almost $2.1 billion, the sector accounted for more than a fourth of the overall financing in March. Its dominance came on the back of a strong February, when the industry also led the charge with 31 deals raising close to $1.5 billion.<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-479072 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dealstreetwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/202603_China-Deal-Review_3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2310\" height=\"1550\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of deal value, <\/span>biotech<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rose to second with over $1.3 billion in combined financing, thanks to Earendil Labs\u2019 blockbuster capital raise. But except for its $787-million financing, none of the remaining 23 biotech deals reached the megadeal mark of at least $100 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>Semiconductor<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ranked third by deal value, with $652.9 million across 20 deals. Three of them crossed the megadeal threshold, including a $174.1-million Series E round in Calterah, which designs and develops radar chips primarily for the automotive industry. AI computing chipmaker LuminX and CIX Technology, which specialises in Arm-based intelligent computing chips, raised $145.1 million each.<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-479073 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dealstreetwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/202603_China-Deal-Review_4-1-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1262\" \/><\/p><h3><strong>Hillhouse, Oriza top investor rankings<\/strong><\/h3><p>Hillhouse Investment Management<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a $100-billion global alternative asset manager, and Chinese state-owned investment group <\/span>Oriza Holdings<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were tied <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for first<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> place in investor rankings in March.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two investment groups each participated in 13 deals. Hillhouse was just a notch above Oriza Holdings, given that it served as a lead investor in four of its 13 deals and that the total value of Hillhouse-backed investments was relatively higher than that of Oriza-backed transactions.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the month featuring a blend of top state-backed and private-capital investors, the dealmaking patterns of Hillhouse and Oriza <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">suggest<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> some <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fundamental<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> differences between these investors of varying backgrounds.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hillhouse bankrolled 11 of its 13 deals through its venture capital (VC) arm GL Ventures, showcasing its strong focus on early-stage dealmaking in Greater China and across mostly cutting-edge deeptech verticals like embodied intelligence and vehicle electrification. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In comparison, Oriza-backed deals were also mostly early-stage but also spanning venture- and growth-segments across both tech-centric and traditional hardware and industrial machinery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More prominently, Hillhouse favoured dealmaking in US dollars, with more than half of its deals in March being USD-denominated, versus Oriza, which announced only one USD investment.<\/span><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-479074 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dealstreetwebsite.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2026\/04\/202603_China-Deal-Review_5-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2142\" height=\"1222\" \/><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note: In our monthly analysis for March 2026, we have put together detailed charts of prominent deals, deal stages, and the most attractive sectors in the Greater China region.<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our database only 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