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  {
   "company": "Topstar",
   "hq_country": "China",
   "website": "https://www.topstarltd.com/",
   "status": "active",
   "what_it_builds": "Guangdong Topstar Technology, an industrial robot/automation maker, builds the Xiaotuo (小拓) wheeled humanoid robot (via subsidiary Matrix Zhituo 矩阵智拓) for injection-moulding production, inspection and other industrial work.",
   "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.topstarltd.com/",
   "founded_year": "2007",
   "founded_source": "https://www.topstarltd.com/",
   "funding_usd": "141888369",
   "funding_basis": "public company",
   "funding_source": "https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2019-11-11/doc-iicezzrr8587131.shtml",
   "funding_note": "Public company (SZSE ChiNext 300607). Summed: (1) IPO listed 2017-02-09, 18.12m new shares at CNY18.74 = CNY339,568,800 gross (~CNY340m per SZSE), https://www.szse.cn/aboutus/trends/news/t20170209_518895.html; (2) 2019-11 ChiNext public follow-on offering, 16,065,200 shares at CNY40.46 = CNY649,997,992 (reported as CNY650m), https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2019-11-11/doc-iicezzrr8587131.shtml. Converted at approximate announcement-date rates (sources state none): 6.87 CNY/USD (Feb 2017), 7.03 (Nov 2019). Excluded: convertible bonds (debt) and the pending HKEX H-share listing (no proceeds yet). No market cap sourced, valuation left empty.",
   "latest_funding_date": "2019-11-20",
   "valuation_usd": null,
   "latest_model": "Xiaotuo (小拓) TWH020 wheeled humanoid",
   "latest_model_year": "2025",
   "latest_model_source": "https://www.nbd.com.cn/articles/2025-09-13/4059857.html",
   "units_shipped": null,
   "units_shipped_source": null,
   "units_shipped_note": "No published count of humanoid units delivered or sold was found.",
   "as_of": "2026-11-03"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "https://www.topstarltd.com/",
  "https://www.nbd.com.cn/articles/2025-09-13/4059857.html",
  "https://www.szse.cn/aboutus/trends/news/t20170209_518895.html",
  "https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2019-11-11/doc-iicezzrr8587131.shtml"
 ]
}