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      "company": "Haier Smart Home",
      "hq_country": "China",
      "website": "https://smart-home.haier.com/en/",
      "status": "active",
      "what_it_builds": "Listed home-appliance maker (Qingdao; parent Haier Group) developing the HIVA (Haiwa) wheeled-base household humanoid (165 cm, 70 kg, 44 DoF) for housework such as laundry, cleaning and cooking linked to Haier appliances; demos were teleoperated, and its subsidiary Haier Brothers Robot Technology (Qingdao) partners with Beijing Xingdong Jiyuan (RobotEra).",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://www.ithome.com/0/870/969.htm",
      "founded_year": "1989",
      "founded_source": "https://smart-home.haier.com/media/qyxnwuj4/d-share-28778_ar-2-eng-haier-smart-home-26-march-2236-cl.pdf",
      "funding_usd": "900664453",
      "funding_basis": "public company",
      "funding_source": "https://www.avcj.com/avcj/news/58041/kkr-buys-10-stake-in-china-home-appliance-maker-for-usd552m",
      "funding_note": "Summed: (1) 1989 founding directional raising RMB150m (2025 annual report, URL in founded_source) = USD 31,765,528 at the 4.7221 official RMB/USD rate of 16 Dec 1989 (approval date; rate not stated by source); (2) 2013-09/2014 private placement to KKR, RMB3.38bn = USD 552,000,000 as stated by AVCJ (funding_source; announced terms, final closing amount not verified); (3) 2018-10-24 Frankfurt/CEINEX D-share IPO, EUR 278.25m base gross proceeds (https://www.cliffordchance.com/news/news/2018/10/clifford-chance-beraet-bankenkonsortium-bei-boersengang-von-qing.html) = USD 316,898,925 at ECB rate 1.1389 of 24 Oct 2018. Excluded: EUR 41.74m greenshoe (exercise not confirmed); 1993 SSE public issue of 50m shares (proceeds not found); Dec 2020 HKEX H-share listing by introduction (no new money). Later A-share issues not found; total may be incomplete. Valuation = market cap as of Nov 2026 (companiesmarketcap).",
      "latest_funding_date": "2018-10-24",
      "valuation_usd": "29740000000",
      "latest_model": "HIVA (Haiwa)",
      "latest_model_year": "2025",
      "latest_model_source": "https://www.ithome.com/0/870/969.htm",
      "units_shipped": null,
      "units_shipped_source": null,
      "units_shipped_note": "No published delivery or sales count. At AWE 2026 (March 2026) Haier said its humanoid was still in debugging and training with no set market launch date (https://www.news.cn/fortune/20260323/135b13670f3b4bf1a778132a8acb6f78/c.html).",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://www.ithome.com/0/870/969.htm",
    "https://smart-home.haier.com/media/qyxnwuj4/d-share-28778_ar-2-eng-haier-smart-home-26-march-2236-cl.pdf",
    "https://www.avcj.com/avcj/news/58041/kkr-buys-10-stake-in-china-home-appliance-maker-for-usd552m",
    "https://www.cliffordchance.com/news/news/2018/10/clifford-chance-beraet-bankenkonsortium-bei-boersengang-von-qing.html",
    "https://en.zhonglun.com/news/trade/30475.html",
    "https://companiesmarketcap.com/haier-smart-home/marketcap/",
    "https://www.news.cn/fortune/20260323/135b13670f3b4bf1a778132a8acb6f78/c.html"
  ]
}