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Seres Raises About $1.8 Billion in Hong Kong Debut to Fuel Overseas Expansion and Robotics Push

The listing equips Seres with fresh capital for a measured international rollout focused on embodied‑intelligence ventures.

Overview

  • Seres began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on November 5, raising roughly $1.8 billion to broaden its investor base beyond its existing Shanghai listing.
  • The company said proceeds will support expansion into new markets as well as investment in emerging businesses, including humanoid robots.
  • President Zhang Zhengping outlined a gradual, country‑by‑country entry strategy and downplayed competitive pressure from Huawei’s collaborations with other automakers.
  • Seres has set up Chongqing Phoenix Technology for AI and robotics R&D and signed an October collaboration with ByteDance’s Volcano Engine on cloud‑edge multimodal decision and control systems.
  • A video posted November 4 purportedly shows a Seres‑branded humanoid at a user center, though a market‑ready product has not been independently confirmed.