Gao Bingqiang Backs Shenzhen Smart Pet Hardware Startup in Tens-of-Millions-Yuan Pre-A Round | HardcoreNews Exclusive

Author: Huang Nan Editor: Yuan Silai Hardcore News has learned that Juhmao Universe, a smart pet hardware company, has recently completed a Pre-A financing round worth tens of millions of yuan. Professor Gao Bingqiang and his Gao Feng Patient Capital fund, Qianhai Innovation Investment (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Changlei Venture Capital and others continued to add to their investments. The funds will mainly be used for technological innovation, product iteration, patent system development, expanding global offline channel networks, and advancing deep production line integration and mass production delivery. Previously, the company had completed two consecutive rounds of early-stage financing. Investors included Professor Gao Bingqiang and his fund Brizan Ventures Fund II, Gao Feng Patient Capital, Professor Gan Jie, Future Technology Fund, Beyond Venture Fund and others. Cangzhu Capital served as exclusive financial advisor. Founded in 2023, Juhmao Universe focuses on the smart pet hardware sector. Its first product is a passive, battery-free cat bed hair-combing and collection device. The company's proprietary molds and manufacturing processes, covering comb-tooth structures and integrated felt molding, have secured PCT international patent certification. The product was validated on overseas crowdfunding platforms and has entered leading European pet chain channels. [Image: Juhmao Universe passive battery-free cat bed hair-combing and collection device (Source: company)] Founder Tian Youren has extensive full-stack software and hardware development capabilities. During university, he participated in robotics competitions such as the China Engineering Robot Competition and the RoboMaster mecha championship, winning multiple national-level awards. Other core team members span robotics engineering R&D, consumer hardware overseas expansion, and brand marketing, combining technical implementation with global commercialization capabilities. The pet hardware sector has long been dominated by an "additive" logic. Mainstream players tend to add various electronic control modules, connect networking features, and expand sensing and data-collection dimensions, equating feature stacking directly with intelligence to build differentiated barriers. However, complex electromechanical stacking has instead become the most prominent source of product risk. For example, for cat owners, seasonal loose hair has long been a high-frequency pain point. When cats enter their shedding periods, hair scatters across the entire home and is very hard to deal with. Existing solutions each have shortcomings: manual brushing consumes owners' energy, and many cats resist being brushed. Meanwhile, powered pet grooming devices on the market continue to pose safety and reliability risks such as mechanism jamming and operational failures. "What users really need is not nominal 'smartness,' but concrete results that reduce cat hair in the home," said Tian Youren, founder of Juhmao Universe. "Pets cannot speak, so"