AI sports hardware company received hundreds of millions of Series B financing to reconstruct the independent tennis training experience with large sports models

Author | Huang Nan Editor | Yuan Silai Hard Krypton has learned that the AI sports hardware company "Pangbot" has recently completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series B financing, led by Shanghai SDIC Leading Fund, followed by Yuanhe Puhua, Pudong Venture Capital, etc., and old shareholder Lanchi Venture Capital has continued to invest. Gaohu Capital serves as the exclusive financial advisor. The company has previously completed three consecutive rounds of Series A financing, with leading institutions such as Shenqi Capital, Mingshi Venture Capital, Lanchi Venture Capital, Jinqiu Fund, Huachuang Capital and Chengdu Capital collectively participating. The financing funds will focus on the research and development of AI sports large models, sports vision and training decision-making technology, expand the global market, improve overseas channels and localized brand operations; launch more new sports products, and expand the boundaries of technology platform reuse. The company's long-term goal is to popularize professional sports training services so that ordinary users can also obtain professional-level training experience. Pombert first started working in the table tennis scene and gradually established the "hand, eye, and brain" integrated capabilities covering serve execution, visual perception, motion analysis and training decision-making. He was the first in the industry to implement a self-developed sports model into smart ball machine hardware products, and reused this set of technical capabilities in other sports categories such as tennis. The company's first intelligent tennis serving robot, the PACE series, was launched on Kickstarter in October 2024, with a crowdfunding amount exceeding US$2.7 million. In May 2026, the Aura all-in-one AI coaching robot was launched. The crowdfunding amount exceeded US$1 million within 5 hours of the launch, and the cumulative amount exceeded US$4 million. Currently, Pombot has more than 300,000 users worldwide, the device has served more than 2 billion balls in total, and accumulated more than 1 million sets of ball path data. The Australian Open officially announced on September 28 that Pombot became the official partner of the Australian Open, the official service robot partner, and also served as the official service robot supplier of the Australian National Tennis Academy. As the core products and commercialization paths are gradually smoothed out, Pombot has moved from early product and category expansion to the long-term platform capability building stage. Pombert becomes the official partner of the Australian Open (Photo source/Enterprise) In the field of sports training, there has long been a structural contradiction that has been ignored by technology. international tennis