Xiaopeng Co-founder He Tao's New Venture Sanshou Tech Gets First Round of Financing

TapTechNews August 21, according to the report of Leifeng.com's New Intelligent Driving, the start-up project secretly launched by He Tao, the co-founder of Xiaopeng Motors - Sanshou Technology has recently received the first batch of financing, with Sequoia Capital participating in the investment and valued at tens of millions of US dollars.

Multiple sources disclosed that the field that Sanshou Technology entered is somewhat different from the robot track reported by the media before. Currently, the company mainly focuses on intelligent motorcycles as the main product and mainly targets the overseas market.

It is said that He Tao brought out four core backbones from Xiaopeng to start a business together, including former Xiaopeng vice president Jiao Qingchun and former Xiaopeng senior exterior design director Zhang Lihua, etc.

TapTechNews found that Guangzhou Sanshou Technology was established on June 20, 2024, and He Tao and Jiao Qingchun are shareholders of the company, while Zhang Lihua serves as the supervisor.

He Tao is one of the founders of Xiaopeng and founded Xiaopeng together with another co-founder Xia Heng in 2014. In 2017, He Xiaopeng officially joined and served as the chairman of Xiaopeng, while Xia Heng and He Tao served as the president and vice president respectively. In March this year, He Tao and Xia Heng withdrew from the core management of Xiaopeng and became lifetime honorary advisors of Xiaopeng.

During the Xiaopeng period, He Tao was responsible for supply chain and sales-related work. Before founding Xiaopeng, He Tao once worked at the GAC Research Institute and established the first-generation autonomous driving team of the GAC Research Institute. Jiao Qingchun and Zhang Lihua also worked at GAC before joining Xiaopeng.