T-chef Tech

Based in Shenzhen, China and founded in 2018, Shenzhen Zhigu Tianchu Technology Co. , Ltd. , trading as T-chef Tech, is is a technology company focusing on the research and development, production and sales of intelligent cooking equipment for Chinese dishes and the turnkey solution of smart kitchen. The company has 5,000 square meters of production and research space and has regional sales and service centers throughout the country.

In July 2026, T-chef Tech raised CNY 100 million in strategic investment led by China Merchants Venture Investment Management, with participation from Transition Capital, Yunqi Partners, Genesis Capital, and QF Capital. Based in Shenzhen, China and founded in 2018, Shenzhen Zhigu Tianchu Technology Co. , Ltd. , trading as T-chef Tech, is is a technology company focusing on the research and development, production and sales of intelligent cooking equipment for Chinese dishes and the turnkey solution of smart kitchen.

Founder and CEO Kaiping Geng established the company to standardise professional cooking through automation. The company has 5,000 square meters of production and research space and has regional sales and service centers throughout the country. In July 2026, T-chef Tech raised CNY 100 million in strategic investment led by China Merchants Venture Investment Management, with participation from Transition Capital, Yunqi Partners, Genesis Capital, and QF Capital. T-Chef Tech generates revenue through sales and deployment of commercial cooking and seasoning robots, smart-kitchen equipment and integrated kitchen-automation systems.

Additional revenue may be generated through equipment installation, maintenance, leasing, kitchen software and remotely delivered recipe or operational services. Its customers include restaurant chains, contract caterers, corporate and institutional canteens, central kitchens, hotels, food courts and food-processing operators. T-Chef Tech plans to use its July 2026 financing to advance physical AI, multimodal cooking-data collection and digital dish models that adapt cooking parameters to ingredient and regional taste differences. The company also intends to expand internationally across Chinese and broader Asian restaurant markets, localise cooking robots for overseas kitchens, and strengthen modular hardware support, remote software services and full-stack smart-kitchen deployments.