According to Shanghai Finance and Pudong Release, on the 27th, the Pudong Artificial Intelligence Seed Fund was officially launched at the 2025 Pudong New Area Artificial Intelligence Industry Ecology Global Promotion Conference. The fund has a total scale of 2 billion yuan, with an initial scale of 500 million yuan. It is the first state-owned capital venture capital fund in China that focuses specifically on the seed round stage, and it will mainly invest in innovative talents and cutting-edge technology projects.
Solving the Financing Problems of Startups
The Pudong Artificial Intelligence Seed Fund adopts a friendly and flexible investment mechanism, aiming to help startup teams solve the "survival" issues, achieve the "aggregation" industrial cluster effect, and create an environment that encourages and values entrepreneurship. The fund will accelerate the practical application and transformation of artificial intelligence basic research and original innovation in Pudong, helping to build a global leading vertical model ecological gathering area.
At the promotion conference, Pudong Venture Capital Group signed investment agreements with 18 companies for the seed fund, marking the official start of the fund's operation.
Pudong's Obvious Advantages in AI Industry
As one of the first national pilot zones for artificial intelligence innovation applications, Pudong has comprehensively planned the hard technology industry chain under the guidance of the national strategy, forming a significant first-mover advantage and cluster effect. Currently, the scale of Pudong's artificial intelligence industry has exceeded 160 billion yuan, accounting for about 40% of the city's total scale.
In terms of enterprise agglomeration, more than 200 enterprises related to vertical models have chosen to settle in Pudong, among which 28 large model products have completed filing or registration. The construction of computing infrastructure is also remarkable, with the region's intelligent computing scale accounting for nearly 50% of the city's total scale.
Five Measures to Build a New AI Ecosystem
Looking towards the future, Pudong has formulated five key measures for the development of the artificial intelligence industry:
Scenario Expansion: Plans to release more than 30 application scenarios, adding 1,000 artificial intelligence enterprises in the next three years, and breaking through 200 billion yuan in core output value.
Infrastructure: Launching the country's first "Heterogeneous Humanoid Robot Training Field," the public data authorization operation platform will be launched soon, and the Pufa Liming Wan Card Intelligent Computing Cluster is scheduled to be put into operation by the end of the year.
Financial Support: Establishing a fund matrix covering the entire life cycle of enterprises, and establishing the first leasing company serving the artificial intelligence industry.
Policy Optimization: Strengthening the artificial intelligence industry policy matrix, focusing on supporting large model applications, humanoid robot R&D innovation, and application scenario demonstration areas.
Talent Services: Introducing a "two 1 million square meter low-rent space" policy to support youth entrepreneurship and innovation, and Zhangjiang provides continuous three-year support of up to 1 million yuan per year for high-growth youth science and technology innovation projects. The Pudong Pearl Plan has provided comprehensive support including settlement, education, medical care, and permanent residency for over 2,100 outstanding talents.
Pudong is committed to building a new form of intelligent city where "people, technology, and scenarios" coexist and thrive, becoming an important engine for global artificial intelligence innovation and development.