Chinese reports, based on a company announcement, say Shanghai Zhihe Network Technology’s Zhihe AI has reported completion of a Series A financing round valued in the tens of millions of yuan. The investor lineup in those reports names Delta Capital as lead investor and Minhang Financial Investment Development as a co-investor. The financing is described as a reported or announced Series A in company-based coverage.
The company and product are identified in Chinese reports as Shanghai Zhihe Network Technology and its Zhihe AI offering. According to these reports, Zhihe AI addresses legal retrieval, contract review, document drafting, file analysis, and related workflows. The product launched in August 2025, and that timing appears in the same set of reports that outline the funding update. Within the scope described by the company and reiterated in media items, the product’s focus centers on tasks associated with finding information, reviewing contracts, preparing documents, and analyzing files within legal workflows.
Reported Series A brings new capital to legal-tech AI
The financing round is presented in Chinese coverage as a reported or announced Series A for Zhihe AI, with a value described as tens of millions of yuan. Reports name Delta Capital as the lead investor and Minhang Financial Investment Development as a co-investor. The reports attribute these details to a company announcement, identifying the company as Shanghai Zhihe Network Technology. This identification and investor naming are consistent across the items that refer to the announcement and repeat the funding range and roles.
In summarizing the update, the reports emphasize the round’s status as announced or reported and provide the value bracket without specifying a single figure. They also keep the investor roles to the stated lead investor and co-investor. The pairing of the company name with the Zhihe AI product name is explicit, and the funding is tied directly to Zhihe AI rather than to a separate line of business. The funding description appears alongside references to the product’s scope in legal retrieval, contract review, document drafting, file analysis, and related workflows, linking the reported financing to the product initiative that launched in August 2025.
The focus on a specialist professional domain echoes the broader pattern of domain-specific AI models in Chinese scientific research.
Zhihe AI focuses on structured legal workflows
ChinaVenture reported the July release of Zhihe AI 3.0, including a legal ontology, a Skill Center, and a digital-law-workflow structure. In that reporting, the version update is presented with those three named components, positioning them as part of the 3.0 release. The same product scope cited in coverage of the financing is restated around Zhihe AI’s focus on legal retrieval, contract review, document drafting, file analysis, and related workflows.
Across the reports, the description of Zhihe AI’s workflow coverage remains consistent: retrieval of legal information, review of contracts, drafting of documents, and analysis of files. The July reporting by ChinaVenture adds specificity to the product update by listing a legal ontology, a Skill Center, and a digital-law-workflow structure as features included in version 3.0. Those components are named in connection with the 3.0 release and are presented together as part of the product’s evolution. The focus on legal retrieval, contract review, document drafting, file analysis, and related workflows is repeated alongside references to the 3.0 components, maintaining a continuous link between the product’s stated use cases and its reported version updates.
Chinese coverage identifies an August 2025 product launch and separately reports Zhihe AI 3.0 with a legal ontology, a Skill Center, and a digital-law-workflow structure. These updates concern the same product identified by Chinese reports as being developed by Shanghai Zhihe Network Technology. Separate company-based reports describe a Series A valued at tens of millions of yuan and name Delta Capital and Minhang Financial Investment Development in the reported investor roles.
Funding places legal AI in a specialized software market
The August 2025 launch of Zhihe AI, the ChinaVenture report on version 3.0, and the reported Series A are separate milestones in the company’s development. The available accounts identify Shanghai Zhihe Network Technology as the company behind the product, describe its legal-workflow focus, and name Delta Capital and Minhang Financial Investment Development in the reported investor roles.
In aggregate, the Chinese reports cite a company announcement to describe a reported or announced Series A for Zhihe AI, with a value in the tens of millions of yuan and investor roles for Delta Capital as lead investor and Minhang Financial Investment Development as co-investor. They identify the company as Shanghai Zhihe Network Technology and present Zhihe AI as a product that addresses legal retrieval, contract review, document drafting, file analysis, and related workflows.
They also include the ChinaVenture report that in July described the 3.0 release as incorporating a legal ontology, a Skill Center, and a digital-law-workflow structure. These points together form the basis of the current update on Zhihe AI as presented in the reports and the company announcement they reference.
