SPARO Secures Hundreds of Millions in Funding for Aerial Intelligence

SPARO (Silicon Feather Technology), a startup focused on general aerial intelligence, has successfully completed four rounds of multi-hundred million yuan financing within six months. The funding rounds saw participation from investors including Matrix Partners China, Jingshan Capital, Alibaba, Hony Capital, GLP Hidden Hill Capital, and Yunshi Capital, following an initial seed round led by Matrix Partners China. The company plans to utilize the funds to expand its team in key positions, accelerate the commercialization and scaled delivery of its product lines, and continuously iterate on its technology platform.

Founded in February 2026, SPARO aims to transform aircraft from traditional remote-controlled tools into intelligent aerial agents capable of understanding their environment, making decisions, and autonomously completing tasks. The core team comprises individuals from top global research institutions and leading companies like DJI and Huawei, bringing over a decade of experience in cutting-edge technology and industrialization. SPARO has developed a full-stack technology system encompassing multimodal perception, end-to-end cerebellum, world navigation model brain, and dexterous operation and cluster coordination. This enables aircraft to operate in complex environments lacking GPS signals, with low light, or dynamic changes, and to achieve cross-scenario, cross-platform, and cross-form applications.

Founder Zhang Fu, a distinguished scientist with extensive industry experience, including an eight-year tenure as a senior consultant scientist at DJI, highlights the industry's shift from engineering maturity and cost-effectiveness to autonomous capabilities. He emphasizes that true aerial intelligence requires not just observation but also intervention in the environment, a capability currently lacking in most drones. SPARO's technological advantage lies in its self-developed, full-stack architecture covering perception, cerebellum, brain, and data. This includes multimodal fusion perception for centimeter-level positioning without GPS, an end-to-end cerebellum for sub-5-millisecond obstacle avoidance, and a world navigation model brain for spatial understanding and prediction. The company is also developing capabilities for dexterous manipulation and large-scale cluster coordination, aiming for thousands of drones to operate collaboratively. SPARO has already secured dozens of initial customers and partners in its first six months.