Hard Krypton Debut | Former Huawei Intelligent Driving Keywords Enter AI Shipbuilding, Already Received an Order of 100 Million Yuan, Specializing in Leisure Boats

Hard Krypton learned that the smart boat company Tongzhou Zhihang recently completed tens of millions of seed rounds of financing, jointly led by Inno Angel and Wuzhong Financial Holdings, and followed by Jiangsu Jinqiao Fund. The financing will be used to supplement core R&D and mass production team talents, and simultaneously launch overseas brand building and channel development. Tongzhou Zhihang was established in June 2025. Its core concept is to use artificial intelligence to empower ships. Founder Zhang Chenglun has more than 10 years of experience in the automotive autonomous driving industry. He was the head of Huawei's commercial vehicle solutions department and founded a mining autonomous driving company with over 100 employees. The team has strong genes in autonomous driving. The chief scientist is a PhD and postdoc in AI from the University of Connecticut in the United States, and was the person in charge of perception prediction at an autonomous driving unicorn company; the VP of intelligent navigation technology is a master's degree in AI from the University of Paris-Saclay in France, and has served as an Intel algorithm scientist, a senior researcher at Uisee Technology, and the director of the planning and control department of Zhitu Technology; the business partner has 12 years of experience in Huawei's major accounts and 10 years of European market expansion. He has served as the director of Huawei's global major account system department and the director of digital energy sales, and has achieved order breakthroughs of hundreds of millions of dollars in the European government and enterprise market. With the development of the industry, more and more water intelligence companies are pouring in. Tongzhou Intelligent has a very clear positioning of itself: it does not make environmentally friendly and ecological products, but specializes in leisure boats. Zhang Chenglun explained that he once conducted a survey with his team and found that the level of intelligence of ships is very backward. "The leisure boat market is large enough, easy to standardize, and has to-C attributes. If the product provides value, customers will be willing to pay for it." The global stock of powered leisure boats such as yachts, cruise boats, and fishing boats reaches about 35 million. There is a stock upgrade market worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The annual increase is forecast to reach 1 million, and the new transaction market in 2025 will be about 50 billion U.S. dollars. In addition, there are 450,000 commercial ships in the world such as cargo ships and inland water transportation, so navigation safety and usage costs are extremely important. However, traditional recreational boats are complex to operate and suffer from many human-induced accidents. Data show that 87% of U.S. ship owners lack formal training, and 75% of accidents are related to this. Among them, "berthing" is the biggest source of stress for crew members. At the same time, traditional marine electronic devices are numerous, scattered and expensive to maintain, and the younger generation of consumer groups are strongly pursuing