Author|Shen Xiao
Editor|Wang & Tong
On the afternoon of June 3, 2023, the 2023 Spring Roadshow Day was held in Beijing. A total of 60 projects participated in this roadshow, involving 22 sub-industries such as artificial intelligence, enterprise services, developer tools, robotics, biomedical, and advanced manufacturing.
From this roadshow activity, it can be seen that the window of innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities around the upstream and downstream of the large model industry chain has been opened. Compared with the 2022 Spring Roadshow, the number of artificial intelligence theme projects in this roadshow has doubled, with a total of 41, of which 39 are related to large models, covering infrastructure layers such as AI chips, middle layers that provide services such as model training and fine-tuning, and application layers that combine large models with enterprise services, developer tools, robots, and multiple subdivisions such as social networking, gaming, sports and health, fashion, and education.
It is reported that a total of 7,954 start-up companies applied for this year's entrepreneurship camp. From the final 60 entrepreneurial projects, 67% of the founders have overseas backgrounds, compared with last year, the average age dropped from 31 to 29, and the proportion of master's degree or above increased from 69% to 78%.
2023 spring entry project industry theme distribution Photo provided by the organizer
The following is the project introduction, in no particular order, divided into six modules: large model ecological service - basic software class & industry vertical model layer class; Large model ecological services-data technology; Other basic software; Other AIGC application layers; robots, chips and other hardware; Biomedical.
Large model ecological service - basic software class & industry vertical model layer
HeX-AI
Build an easy-to-use and efficient big model computing framework that makes big models affordable for all enterprises.
Project Introduction: HeX-AI is an easy-to-use and efficient large model computing framework provider, covering full-link functions such as pre-training, fine tuning, inference, and deployment of large models, and solving the problems of low operational efficiency, expensive use, and too high difficulty in the construction of private large models.
Team introduction: The core members of the team are all from Peking University. Founder and CEO Fu Fangcheng is a doctoral student at the School of Computer Science of Peking University, and his main research areas are deep learning algorithms and systems, big data processing and analysis, and distributed computing. CTO Miao Xupeng is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, and has won the 2022 ACM Youbo Award and the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) Yunfan Award. Chief Scientist Cui Bin is a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor, Deputy Dean of the School of Computer Science and Director of the Institute of Data Science and Engineering of Peking University.
Financing plan: HeX-AI plans to complete an angel round of financing of 50 million RMB.
Zhongke plus he
Software infrastructure of domestic AI ecology, domestic chip compilation enabling tool chain.
Project Introduction: Zhongke Jiahe focuses on compilation technology and is committed to providing generalized, low-cost and high-performance computing power resources for the mainland AI large model industry. The company's products are cross-brand and cross-model standardized AI software bases, including AI training and inference tools, Fine-Tuning tools and operator implementations, as well as integrated AI computing power solutions including hardware devices. The company has reached cooperation with domestic leading AI computing chip and hardware equipment manufacturers and started product research and development.
Team introduction: The team has more than 20 years of compiler development experience. The members include the main architect of the Loongson compiler, the main architect of the Sunway OpenCL compiler, the main architect of the Cambrian compiler and other core personnel.
Infrawaves
Open computing power network providers.
Project Introduction: BaseFlow Technology is a high-performance computing power network system manufacturer, including GPU-RDMA network communication framework and high-speed lossless network switch. The network communication solution of baseflow technology can improve the performance by more than 20%, saving tens of millions of yuan in the kilocard environment.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO Hu Xiaohe participated in the project during the doctoral and postdoctoral years of Tsinghua University, led the implementation of the first operator Tbps-level commercial programmable network, and successfully trained a large model of 70 billion parameters on the supercomputing platform; Founder/CTO Qu Xiaorong is a former Tencent Chief Network Architect, responsible for domestic high-end switching chip design, leading 100G/200G/400G data center network systems, responsible for and participating in the research and development of multiple chips, switches and routers;
Founder/COO Xie Wenqi graduated from Tsinghua University with a master's degree and has many years of PE/VC experience.
Financing plan: GLiFlow plans to complete an angel round of financing of 30 million yuan.
GreenBitAI
Low bits make big models ubiquitous.
Project Introduction: Provides 1-4 bit AI training framework, low-bit model library and computing engine. GreenBitAI develops the world's leading low-bit neural network technology to create an efficient AI computing solution, aiming to load large models into mobile devices and help the new mobile interaction revolution.
Team introduction: Yang Hao, co-founder/CEO, is a Ph.D. in Computer Science, the Beijing team leader of Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Lab and Alibaba Video Cloud's Edge Computing Lab, and the Chief AI Scientific Advisor of Huawei Edge Cloud Innovation Lab and Munich Cloud Intelligence Lab. Co-founders Dr. Joseph Bethge, Dr. Guo Nianhui, and Dr. Hu Ting, all former researchers of HPI Media and Machine Learning Research Group, have many years of deep learning and binary neural network research and engineering experience, and natural language model quantitative acceleration research experience; Co-founder/scientist Christoph Meinel is the former president and CEO of the HPI Institute and a member of the German Academy of Engineering. Founder of OpenHPI, Germany's largest MOOC platform.
Financing Plan: GreenBitAI plans to complete a $3 million angel round of financing
BrainPy
Build a bridge between AI and the brain to build a leading "real brain model".
Project Introduction: Lingbrain Technology is a company focusing on brain science and brain-like software models, with the neural computing framework BrainPy as the core, upward development of biological brain large models, downward docking of special acceleration chips, serving three major scenarios, including brain health, brain manipulation and brain-like intelligence.
Team introduction: The core team is from the Neural Information Processing Laboratory of Peking University. CEO Li Shangyang is a doctoral candidate at Peking University, focusing on computational neuroscience and machine learning; The CTO Chaoming Wang holds a Ph.D. from Peking University, focusing on computational neuroscience, high-performance computing and large-scale simulation.
Financing plan: Lingbrain Technology plans to complete an angel round of financing of 10 million RMB or equivalent US dollars.
PrimeAl
ARM in the era of large models provides one-stop chip customization design and IP authorization services.
Project Introduction: PrimeAl focuses on the field of large-model chips, aiming to provide one-stop chip customization design and IP licensing services. Based on the team's top Al and communication chip R&D strength, we have developed a dedicated computing architecture and high-speed interconnection technology optimized for large models, and launched a series of Transformer optimized IP and high-speed communication IP, which can be applied to various scenarios such as cloud servers and edge robots according to the needs of use.
About the team: The team is backed by the Laboratory of Integrated Circuits and Intelligent Systems (ICAIS) of Nanjing University. Founder and CEO Zhu Danyang is a Ph.D. in integrated circuits from Nanjing University, and Chief Scientist Wang Zhongfeng is an IEEE/AAIAFellow, former technical director of Broadcom, distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor of Nanjing University. With more than 25 years of rich R&D experience in digital signal processing and IC design, he has participated in the design of more than ten commercial chips.
Financing plan: PrimeAl plans to complete the 14 million RMB angel + round of financing.
WolkenVision is about technology
Use AI and big models to provide high-precision, engineering-usable digital models for the infrastructure industry.
Project Introduction: WolkenVision AG uses AI and the latest large model technology to take the construction and infrastructure industry as the first entry point, and provides the reverse 3D digital model for high-precision engineering for the whole industry based on the 3D laser point cloud.
Team Introduction: The team members are from ETH Zurich and Stanford University. Founder/CEO Nan Zhu has worked for the European tunnel giant and the global rail scanning leader Amberg Group, and has many years of experience in 3D BIM modeling research and development; Founder/CTO Ma Boxiao is an expert in the field of 3D deep learning, who has done core research and development at the German aerospace agency EthonAI; Founder/CSA Lingzhiyuan has many years of experience in full-stack, BIM software and 3D point cloud R&D.
Financing Plan: WolkenVision AG plans to close a $2 million angel round of financing.
NEURAL SIGNAL FUSION LARGE MODEL (NEO FLOW)
The use of large models of electrical signals realizes the era of silent interaction and agile control.
Project Introduction: Meta-signal data technology aims to use the large model of electrical signals to achieve silent interaction and agile control. Focus on mechatronics technology, intelligent robot development, EMG signal processing technology, exoskeleton, muscle repair and nerve repair. The company starts from ToC motion applications, and finally creates a large model of human electrical signals based on massive motion data to empower more fields.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO Qin Shentao is a Ph.D. in Tsinghua brain-like decision-making direction and a serial entrepreneur; Co-founder Li Chaoqun is a master of smart city from Central Beauty, and has won many domestic and foreign design awards such as the Design Intelligent Manufacturing Award; Co-founder Ni Erlu is a master of biological art design, and has won the Linz Electronic Arts Festival Nomination Award, DIA Design Intelligent Manufacturing Award, and Asia's New Generation Design Top 100 Designer.
FUNDRAISING: NEO FLOW PLANS TO CLOSE A $1.5 MILLION ANGEL ROUND OF FINANCING.
Large model ecological service - data technology
Light wheel intelligence
A synthetic data provider that combines generative AI and simulation.
Project Introduction: Guanglun Intelligent is committed to providing automated, physically accurate and controllable, real and generalizable synthetic data solutions for enterprise AI implementation, and building a data infrastructure in the AI era. Lightwheel Intelligent pioneers the deep integration of generative AI and simulation technology to provide multi-modal, high-quality, large-scale, and low-cost synthetic data, making up for the data gap in the AI era.
Team introduction: Team members have rich experience in synthetic data, generative AI, simulation and other fields. Founder and CEO Dr. Chen Xie is the first in the world to integrate generative AI into simulation, and has served as the head of autonomous driving simulation of NVIDIA (USA), the head of Cruise (USA) simulation, and the head of NIO's autonomous driving simulation; Co-founder and COO Yang Haibo was the director of Meituan's corporate affairs and the head of the standardization committee of the association.
Financing plan: Guanglun Intelligent plans to complete the 30 million RMB pre-A round of financing.
Docta.ai
The large-model data infrastructure provides automated data quality management and targeted supplementation of high-value scarce data.
Project Introduction: Docta.ai provides high-quality data support for large models. Docta.ai positioned as (1) a data hospital, automating the "diagnosis and treatment" of existing data to make it cleaner; (2) Data-targeted drugs, aiming at performance bottlenecks, targeted supplementation of future data; (3) Model risk assessment, complete the risk assessment of the full coverage of the model, and provide technical certification for the model launch.
Team introduction: Co-founder and CEO Yang Liu is an assistant professor at the University of California, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, a ByteDance Team Lead, and an Amazon visiting scholar; Co-founder/Chief Scientist Zhaowei, Zhu Zhaowei, Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, has published more than ten top papers in the field of data quality in three years (ICML, NeurlPS, ICLR,
）。
Funding Plan: Docta.ai plans to complete a $50-$1 million seed round.
PuppyQuery
Unified NoSQL data analysis engine.
Project Introduction: Fast query speed, no upper limit on data volume, no data import. Applying data lakehouse technology to the NoSQL field can generalize large model-related tasks that can be applied to a variety of data models. Coinbase has already deployed its products to production.
Team introduction: from Google/Linkedin/Airbnb and other companies. Senior Staff/Staff SWE=P10/P9 Google Code Jam Finals: 6th in the world; ACM ICPC Finals: 16th in the world.
Funding Plan: PuppyQuery plans to close a $2 million seed round
Other basic software & developer tools
Interaqt
In the era of big models, intelligent software product managers who help you deal with your needs.
Project Introduction: The project product Interaqt aims to understand and assist users to express their needs and realize the automatic generation of software in the era of large models. Interaqt uses large models to transform the scene-based, vague, and chaotic original requirements described by users in natural language into structured, complete, and rigorous software requirements. At the same time, Interaqt has provided small and medium-sized systems with the ability to parse structured requirements and generate code in general scenarios.
Team introduction: The core members of the team are from leading Internet companies such as Ant and Kuaishou. Founder and CEO Hou Zhenyu is the earliest lecturer of A2M, GMTC and other domestic technical conferences to structure the demand for evangelism, and has served as the head of Ant Group's merchant experience technology department, the head of Kuaishou commercialized front-end general technology, and the head of DJI's front-end.
Financing Plan: Interaqt plans to complete an angel round of financing of US$1.8 million or RMB equivalent.
Innocam (Sword and Smart Technology)
A new generation of AI decision-making software that reduces manufacturing costs by 30%.
Project Introduction: Jianhe Intelligent Technology is a technology company that empowers the manufacturing industry with large models and AI driven. At present, a cost AI decision-making system for the production process has been developed to help enterprises achieve cost reduction in resources, management, and personnel. Based on this core product, the company is gradually developing cost decision-making AI for materials, inventory, R&D and procurement to achieve enterprise-wide cost control.
Team introduction: The founding team are all from the Cambridge Manufacturing Institute, CEO Qi Pengbo is a doctor of digital modeling, who has studied the crack expansion of titanium alloy materials at the University of Oxford and published related articles; CTO Ling Zhengyang is a postdoctoral fellow in automation and artificial intelligence algorithms, and has served as a senior engineer at SAIC and Changan Automobile; COO Ye Chen is a Ph.D. in industrial automation and intelligence (production operation and equipment predictive maintenance); CMO Chen Yifeng has long been engaged in the research of carbon emissions, digitalization and automation in the manufacturing industry.
Financing plan: Innocam plans to complete an angel round of financing of 10-15 million RMB.
HiBug
Bug large model, 5 minutes debug.
Project Introduction: HiBug is a fully automated Code Review tool that supports private deployment, dedicated to solving bugs in programming with AI. At the same time, the project supports open source project scanning to ensure the security of technical teams. HiBug has 2T of Bug data and has trained tens of billions of parameters LLM. Taking Code Review as an entry point, HiBug aims to help R&D teams replace traditional manual debugs and CRs. The company has achieved millions of revenue in 2022 and achieved a threefold increase in turnover.
About the team: The core members of the team come from well-known universities such as Tsinghua, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Beijing Jiaotong University, as well as large enterprises such as Microsoft and JD.com, and have many years of experience in development, R&D and scientific research. Founder and CEO Liu Chunjiang studied computer science at Reed College, dropped out of school in 2020 to start a business, and received investment including Fenghe Capital and Qiji Chuangtan; CTO Duan Haobin is a former senior back-end engineer of JD.com, with experience in independent business system development, and is proficient in microservices and cloud native related technology stacks.
Financing plan: HiBug plans to complete a pre-A round of financing of 15 million RMB or equivalent US dollars.
Zeabur
Deploy any service with one click without worrying about infrastructure.
Project Introduction: Zeabur is committed to helping developers simplify the service deployment process, developers can easily deploy any service with just one click, no matter what programming language or development framework is used, Zeabur can automate the deployment process with the most appropriate deployment strategy, without worrying about infrastructure cumbersome issues. The company achieved a natural increase in the number of users from 200 to more than 4,000 within two months, including more than 120 paying users.
Team introduction: Founder and CEO Lin Yuanlin is now a senior majoring in computer science at Zhejiang University, a serial entrepreneur, with ten years of programming experience, more than 30 full-stack outsourcing project experience, once worked in Ant Group; Xia Yuhang, Front-end Development Director, a senior majoring in information engineering at Zhejiang University, has four years of project development experience, and has worked at NetEase, Zoom, and Youzan; Pinhua Li, Director of Back-end Development, is a graduate student in computer science at UC Berkeley, and has experience working in Microsoft Azure public cloud and teaching experience in the GDSC Google Developer Community.
Financing Plan: Zeabur plans to close an angel round of $1.2 million to $1.8 million
ApiCat
Use AI to help developers develop APIs efficiently through automation and intelligence.
Project Introduction: ApiCat is an API collaboration tool in the era of large models, which aims to use AI to help developers achieve system-to-system collaboration through APIs in the shortest possible time, and then realize collaboration between people and enterprises. Soon after the company's product release, it became an OSChina recommended project.
Team introduction: The team has product experience from 0 to billion. Founder and CEO Zhao Gang is a serial entrepreneur with more than 10 years of product design and development experience, and was the head of Airun IoT products. Du Han, the front-end leader, is a senior front-end engineer and was formerly the front-end leader of Airun Alliance.
Financing plan: ApiCat plans to complete an angel round of financing of RMB 10 million or USD equivalent.
LimitHub（Limit-LAB）
An AI App development platform that every white-collar worker will use in the future.
Project Introduction: Limit-LAB is committed to the research and development of cutting-edge network technology, and plans to develop a visual IDE to solve the problem of Prompt transformation in Prompt development and lower the threshold for getting started. The company connects various AIGC modules and Prompt together by way of connection to achieve the effect of easily developing a complete set of products, and the development speed is increased several times after testing. LimitHub
It is currently the company's main business, committed to solving Prompt engineering and management and security problems, and the attention it has received in the open source community is growing rapidly.
Team introduction: CEO Zhang Runzhe has interned in important positions in many large enterprises such as Huawei, PingCAP, and Starcoin, and has engineering experience in distributed computing, cloud architecture, and computer graphics. CTO Miao Zhiyu is a student in the undergraduate mathematics department of Syracuse University, has participated in a number of industrial research and open source community projects, has interned in many companies, and has many years of Rust development experience; COO Shi Xiang is a bachelor's student in computer science at the University of Birmingham, UK, and has worked as a software architect at Beijing TreeHollow Technology Co., Ltd. and has many entrepreneurial experiences.
Canaries Data
Help users discover and understand more deep data insights with intelligent visual analytics.
Kanaries is a data science startup focused on revolutionizing the way data analysis and visualization are handled. The company provides visual perception and multimodal interaction capabilities for large models in data analysis. With the help of AI and augmented analysis engine, Kanaries can fully automate the work of data exploration and analysis, find regular anomalies from data, explore causal relationships, and automatically generate multi-dimensional visualizations and reports.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO Chen Hao is the author and initiator of Kanaries open source project, former head of Hema Augmented Analysis and Intelligent Visualization Technology, and a core member of Alibaba's Intelligent Visualization Public Construction Group; Partner Wu Jiaxin is a Ph.D. from CAD & CG Laboratory of Zhejiang University, a core developer of Kanaries open source project, and has in-depth research in artificial intelligence, graphics, and visualization.
Funding Plan: Kanarires plans to close a $2 million pre-A round of financing
Assembo.ai
Create advertising content for enterprises that target customers love to watch and buy, combined with AI, data, and taste.
Project Introduction: The Assembo.ai aims to provide users with AI advertising content creation services, deeply explore the scenarios and brand language that match target customers, achieve simpler and more modal user interaction through recognition, recommendation, AI generation and image synthesis algorithms, and generate high-conversion advertising content in one minute.
Team introduction: The core team members are all graduates of the University of Illinois. Founder Li Lan is a former DJI product manager with rich experience in marketing content planning; Project leader Yumo Chi is a former Hyperloop One senior software engineer who has developed web app projects that implement multiple complex 3D models. Wu Kelong, head of technology, is a former senior software engineer at Silicon Valley startup Reconstruct, who has designed and developed several mobile app projects.
Financing plan: Assembo.ai plans to complete an angel round of financing of $1.5 million to $2 million.
Sentence interaction
GPT-powered next-generation conversational marketing cloud.
Project Introduction: Sentence interaction, RPA + AI, to build a next-generation, GPT-driven, IM-based, cross-platform marketing cloud. The company aggregates IM (enterprise WeChat, Feishu, Xiaohongshu, WhatsApp, etc.) in one platform, based on GPT and RPA to provide intelligent marketing services for enterprises, while providing exclusive knowledge base and intelligent robots, bot and human, human-machine collaboration, efficient operation.
Team introduction: CEO Li Jiarui is the co-author of Wechaty, the open source framework for conversational RPA, the author of the first conversational interactive book "Chatbot from 0 to 1", a Microsoft AI MVP, a serial entrepreneur, and Baidu jointly produced a series of courses on "Conversational AI" and promoted the ability certification of intelligent dialogue architects; CTO Gao Yuan holds a bachelor's degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, a master's degree from the University of Maryland, worked at Amazon in the United States, and is one of the initiators of the Chatbot Club Bot Friday Club.
Funding Plan: Sentence Interactive plans to complete a $3 million Series A financing.
To0 Turing World
The AI tool platform in the construction field can produce the best quality deliverable AI renderings on the market.
Project Introduction: To0 Turing World is an AI platform in the field of architecture, including services such as Wen Sheng Tu, Tu Sheng Tu, and intelligent rendering based on AI algorithms. Users only need to simply enter the design requirements or upload photos, click on the design template, and obtain high-quality renderings, shortening the original delivery cycle from one week to seconds, and reducing the cost of purchasing renderings from thousands of yuan to 100 yuan. In the future, the company will also launch a design interaction APP, so that everyone has an AI designer.
Team introduction: CEO Liu Xingchen graduated from Tsinghua University with a master's degree in architecture and has experience in top international construction companies;
CTO Lin Weizhe graduated from Cambridge University with a master's degree and a doctorate; COO He Xinran graduated from the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University and is a serial entrepreneur with multiple experiences in construction companies and financial companies.
Financing plan: To0 Turing World plans to complete an angel round of financing of 10 million to 12 million RMB or equivalent US dollars.
InsideRobo
Design, train, test bots in the metaverse.
Project Description: The company focuses on developing real-time, realistic task flow simulations to help companies reduce robot design, training, testing and management costs. Using the latest metaverse simulation engine Nvidia Omniverse as a digital simulation and cloud computing platform to create a high-precision, high-fidelity virtual world, and use large models and IoT technologies to synchronize robots in virtual and reality.
Team introduction: The founding team met at the end of 2022 in the Nvidia Omniverse Programming Competition and won the grand prize and the first prize respectively. Founder & CEO Yizhou Zhao is engaged in the research of computer vision, robotics and computer simulation. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), under the tutelage of Professor Songchun Zhu; Founder Gavin Steven is engaged in cloud computing, Internet of Things and industrial metaverse design, is a Microsoft Azure cloud architect, DevOps team leader, and has 18 years of computer experience; Co-founder Andy Green is well versed in art forms such as digital, 3D and animation. Graduated in Bath College and The Northeast Wales Institute in Fine Arts.
Funding Plan: InsideRobo plans to close a $1 million angel round of funding.
The Way of Water
A new generation of data-driven biochemical water purification systems.
Project Introduction: Waterway has built a biochemical water purification system database platform, which is committed to mining the interaction relationship between materials and sewage microorganisms, driving the development of new materials by building an interaction data model, which is used for the functional regulation of biochemical water purification system, releasing data value from the source, and systematically improving the efficiency of biochemical water purification.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO Fang Yong is a Ph.D. in materials science from Zhejiang University, a serial entrepreneur, and has a background in environmental microbiology and environmental engineering; Yang Mingzhu, the technical leader, is a master's degree in environmental engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and has published papers in Water Research, a TOP journal in the water field; Liu Ying, Development Consultant, is a Qiushi Distinguished Professor of Zhejiang University, an expert in environmental engineering and dean of RAS; Technical consultant Sheng Kuichuan is a professor at Zhejiang University and an expert in composite materials.
Financing plan: Waterway plans to complete an angel round of financing of 10 million RMB
Chiko empowers technology
Data-driven power design software for fully automated R&D.
Project Introduction: The fully automatic design software of power supply led by Zhizi Empowerment Technology runs through the entire power supply design and development process, accumulates a large amount of data through finite element calculation and experimental testing, and finally realizes the full automation and unmanned research and development. The user only needs to input macro indicators, and the software can output power scheme drawings and cost-effective evaluation that can be proofed. Received 2 million orders in 3 months.
Team introduction: CEO Wei Zheyuan is a Ph.D. from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, majoring in power electronics. Winner of the Global Energy Challenge; Yidong Tian, CTO of Software, is a Ph.D. in Hardware CTO from the University of Manchester, UK; Hardware CTO Jiarui Wu holds a Ph.D. in power electronics from Xi'an Jiaotong University and has completed 10+ high-density power supply engineering designs; COO Yan Junyu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Beihang University and has many years of internship experience in start-up companies and investment institutions.
Financing plan: Zhizi Empowerment Technology plans to complete an angel round of financing of RMB 20 million or USD equivalent.
Chutzpah
A multi-dimensional, dynamic data fusion and modeling tool.
Project Description: Chutzpah is a Data+ model solution provider focused on key enterprise decisions. Based on Data + Ontology, the company aims to establish a unified and dynamic data bottom layer for the implementation of various models to help users solve the problem of data opening and scenarioization in complex scenarios. At present, it starts from the energy industry and the legal industry and builds products with top customers, and has launched Chutzpah Enterprise and Chutzpah Legal. The latter is a legal search tool based on Chutzpah Enterprise that focuses on the legal scene.
Team introduction: co-founder Yu Qingyuan is a serial entrepreneur who used to be the COO of Artery Network 35 Dou and U-Kitchen Cofounder; Co-founder Wang Hairong has seven years of experience in digital and data service construction for first-line enterprises, and has served as CTO of Enterprise Digital Mubai Technology and the head of the data fusion production and research line of Ecoson; Lead: Nannan Sun is a partner lawyer with 7 years of experience.
Financing plan: Chutzpah plans to complete 10 million RMB financing.
PanYi Technology (Intelligent Driving Domain Controller Platform)
An order of magnitude lower cost for an intelligent driving domain controller platform.
Project Introduction: PanYi Technology aims to build a new generation of intelligent car domain controller platform. The company's platform software solution redesigns and optimizes the needs of intelligent driving scenarios, solves the key bottlenecks in the 100-billion-scale market, and continues to help customers iterate reliably and quickly.
Team introduction: Founder Zhang Hongyi, a master of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, participated in the preparation of automotive software AUTOSAR standard on behalf of BMW, and led and completed the localization development of intelligent driving domain controller platform software from 0 to 1 at SAIC; Technical partner Wang Chengguo is a senior expert in the field of automotive electronics, former senior business leader of SAIC Zero Beam, Nezha Automobile, proficient in automotive Ethernet and intelligent vehicle network architecture design; Zhang Yuan, the operating partner, is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in corporate operations, key account operations, government and customer relationship management.
Financing plan: Panyi Technology plans to complete a pre-A round of financing of RMB 15 million or USD equivalent.
Ruita Technology (Avionic Electric Propulsion Systems)
The high power-to-weight ratio motor system empowers the equipment.
Project Introduction: Ruita Technology innovates with the coupling design of impeller and motor to help customers jointly solve the most demanding electrodynamic challenges. In major application fields such as aviation propulsion and high-end equipment servo control, we provide key components and solutions to enable equipment upgrading.
Team introduction: CEO Hu Xuanyang is a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the School of Vehicles and Vehicles of Tsinghua University; CTO Qian Yuping is an assistant researcher at Tsinghua University; COO Shi Jialei is a Ph.D. in robotics from University College London and once established the Harbin Institute of Technology Unmanned Formula Team.
Financing plan: Ruita Technology plans to complete an angel round of financing of 15 million RMB.
Huixi Intelligence
Serve smart mobility with innovative computing platforms.
Project Introduction: Huixi Intelligent is committed to building a next-generation in-vehicle general intelligent computing platform, providing automotive-grade high-end intelligent driving chips, easy-to-use open tool chains and full-stack autonomous driving solutions, helping automotive enterprises achieve high-quality and efficient mass production and delivery of autonomous driving, build low-cost, large-scale and automated iterative capabilities, and lead high-end smart travel in the data-driven era.
Team introduction: The company has 270 employees, the R&D team accounts for nearly 90%, most of them graduated from well-known universities at home and abroad, and have rich industry experience in the fields of automatic driving chip design, algorithm and tool chain development, automotive system and product delivery. The team has the ability to mass produce automotive-grade chips under advanced technology, the vertical integration ability of system products, the research and development of autonomous driving algorithms and the construction of data closed-loop systems.
Financing plan: Huixi Intelligent plans to complete a pre-A round of financing of tens of millions of dollars or equivalent RMB.
HustleSasa
Operating system for African creator businesses.
HustleSasa is the operating system of African creator businesses. With a simple mobile app, creators can sell physical and digital goods, send and receive payments, manage customers, and access financing from anywhere in the world. We empower creators to become business owners.
Team introduction: CEO Peng Chen is a Wharton alumnus, an African entrepreneur with more than ten years of entrepreneurial experience in Africa, having worked at Rocket Internet; CTO Michael Denuh is a serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience as a full-stack engineer; COO Rizz Jiwani is a University of Toronto alumnus with more than 15 years of marketing and operations experience in sub-Saharan Africa; Sauti Sol is a Grammy Award-winning musician from Kenya.
Funding Plan: HustleSasa plans to complete a seed round of funding.
AIGC
Wind language intelligence
A financial analyst based on a large model Copilot.
Project Introduction: Fengyu Intelligent is committed to the research and development of "financial analyst Copilot based on large model" to help the investment industry read and write reports, achieve cost reduction, efficiency improvement and acceleration of investment decisions, and will rely on "a large number of professional analyst users + investor community + efficient and low-cost deployment capabilities of large models" to form project barriers in the future.
Team introduction: The core members of the team are all from Nanjing University. CEO Lu Siyuan is a doctoral student in the direction of NLP large model at Nanjing University, the first scholar to design the Transformer hardware architecture, and a serial entrepreneur; COO Jiang Ziyang has worked in domestic first-line securities research institutes, public funds, and private funds; CTO Shi Yubo is a doctoral student in deep learning data compression at Nanjing University, responsible for the deployment optimization design of deep neural networks in several key projects, and has 8 years of practical experience in development. Senior Advisor Zhongfeng Wang is a Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University, an IEEE Fellow, and an AAIA Fellow.
Financing plan: Fengyu Intelligent plans to complete the angel round of financing of 12-15 million RMB.
Mirro AI
AI-enhanced social platform for semi-acquaintances that amplifies the Dunbar number by 10 times.
Project Introduction: Mirro AI is an AI-enhanced semi-acquaintance social platform, which uses the latest big language model technology to activate the social relationship of semi-acquaintances, solve the problems of energy consumption and unclear social value of maintaining the human network, and help users explore more social value in the interpersonal network. At present, the product is in the testing stage and is expected to be officially launched by the end of June.
Team introduction: The core team graduated from MIT, Oxford University and other famous universities at home and abroad, and has practical experience in first-line manufacturers such as WeChat and Byte. Ni Zhengmin, CEO and head of technology, is the founder of X ACADEMY, who has founded the "field" of interest social products, obtained hundreds of thousands of users in half a year of cold start, and has many years of product design and full-stack development experience; COO and Product Leader Yichen Wu has a double degree in computer science and drama from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and has participated in the planning and creation of tens of millions of traffic IP.
Financing plan: Mirro AI plans to complete an angel round of financing of 6-8 million RMB.
Come duck
Game social platform in the AI era.
Project Introduction: The project is committed to using AI technology to find the highest configuration of the game - teammates for every player in the era of large models. Launched bimonthly, the product has achieved 10-fold growth.
Team introduction: CEO Gong Jiahong is a senior gamer, who has won the first HLK national kill in World of Warcraft, the first Hearthstone national server, and has experience in DAU business leaders from 0 to 450w, achieving revenue from 0 to 1 billion; CPO Yang Tao is a senior product manager who has worked for ByteDance/Tencent, incubating million-level daily community products from 0 to 1 many times; CTO Zlin is a senior engineer, responsible for the service side of Youzu, Yonghang Technology and other companies, full-stack engineer, has rich experience in the game industry, and handles games with an average monthly turnover of more than 100 million.
Financing plan: Laiyao plans to complete an angel round of financing of 10 million RMB or equivalent US dollars.
MohAIr mohair
AIGC's personalized clothing customization platform, allowing everyone to wear their favorite clothes.
Project Introduction: AIGC+ Fashion, MohAIr aims to provide high-quality, low-cost personalized clothing solutions. Users can use keywords, images, or a combination of both to generate a corresponding design based on AI in five seconds, and experience the real upper body effect more intuitively through rendering. Finally, enter all body data such as height and weight, choose to place an order to complete the real production, and get the product within a week. The number of internal test users exceeded 5,000, the average daily design output exceeded 500 sets, and the end-to-end successful implementation of ten sets of diverse designs.
Team introduction: Founder Yang Guang is a computer and statistics double major at the University of California, Berkeley. He designed clothing for Faye Wong and Sun Li. Founded a personal clothing brand at the age of 18; Co-founder Jin Di studied at Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree and graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in NLP and large models; Co-founder Dai Chen graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and was the head of North America of Benmu Technology (Qiji Previous Project).
Funding Plan: MohAIr plans to close a $2 million seed round.
Touchword APP (First Pu and then Jade Technology)
Let the learning process itself be a reward, open source entertainment English learning app.
Project Introduction: Xianpu Later Jade Technology is an Internet company focusing on learning motivation, helping learners with unclear goals and insufficient motivation to make progress in entertainment. The Touchword APP uses a big model to expand English knowledge to every detail of life, so that everyone can cut into what they need from their own interests. And there is a recommendation algorithm to accurately push the content to the user, and the user only needs to do an action "brush" after opening the software to avoid the difficulty of selection. Its products gained 50,000 users in a week with a one-minute promotion in the initial stage.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO Wu Guanlin; Co-founder Chen Shiqi holds a Ph.D. in sports science from the University of Connecticut; Co-founder Chen Siyu is an expert in the growth of entertainment platforms and a well-known English blogger; Co-founder Liu Siqi, an expert in human resources in Yingtuan and game planning; Co-founder Yang Di is a master of communication, the leader of the large-scale game localization team in the United States, and a senior speaking teacher; CTO Jiang Dalai has led the development team to complete the project many times.
Financing Plan: Invest plans to complete a $1 million seed round of financing.
Game - Mind Blueprint (Case Almond)
AI native games: Cram game designers into the game.
Project Introduction: The project is creating AI native games, combining new experiences, new technologies and new IP to make the games that players desire the most. Past players need to understand the game, and the game of this project actively understands the player. The work under development, Mind Blueprint, is the project's first attempt at an AI native game, aiming at the world's variety gaps, as a 3D top-down head-to-head combat real-time tactical single-player game, which will be launched in multiple languages to the all-platform market.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO Ruizhao Chen (Star Blade) is a graduate student of DMCV (Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence) Laboratory of Shanghai Jiao Tong University; CO-FOUNDER/CTO GUOHANG LIU (FUSHIGI) IS A GRADUATE STUDENT OF THE BASIC (BASIC COMPUTING SCIENCE) LABORATORY OF SHANGHAI JIAO AO TONG UNIVERSITY, MAINLY ENGAGED IN MATHEMATICAL LOGIC AND STRUCTURAL GRAPH THEORY; Co-founder Zhuang Zilong (Rainbow Cat) is a graduate student of Fudan Mathematics Undergraduate/Fudan Applied Psychology Cognitive Laboratory.
Financing plan: Shell Almond plans to complete an angel round of financing of US$1.2 million or RMB equivalent.
DreamPets
Pet AIGC: Create AI avatars for 1 billion pets.
Project introduction: DreamPets is a pet AIGC product, users only need to upload a few pet pictures, you can get the pet's AI virtual avatar, its essence is an exclusive fine-tune model, can produce unlimited styles of various pictures and text story content, and even chat and other interactions.
Team introduction: CEO Wu Jingchao is a full-stack engineer, product manager, serial entrepreneur, bachelor of computer science from Zhejiang University, minor in innovation and entrepreneurship management by Zhu Kezhen; CTO Enhao Xu is a master of electronic information from Zhejiang University, mainly researching domain adaptation and generative artificial intelligence, interning at ByteDance and Microsoft, participating in AIOT platform research and development and digital twin algorithms; CSO Xiao Ziyang is a master of computer science from Zhejiang University, a full-stack engineer in machine learning, and the first place in the CCF data mining algorithm competition.
Financing Plan: DreamPets plans to complete an angel round of financing of US$2 million or RMB equivalent.
Pinch Ta (see Concept Viscept)
AI-driven subcultural content co-creation community.
Project Introduction: Seeing Concept Viscept is a creative community that uses cutting-edge AlGC technology to provide core creative users with efficient tools and creators for creating personalized illustrations/memes/branch plots/short videos. It is characterized by the integration of industry-leading Al underlying technologies such as ControlNet, LLM and multimodal large models, which more effectively empowers creative collaboration, especially for high-demand secondary creation/co-creation scenarios, and effectively reduces the threshold of user creation. Product Pinch Ta is a character drawing, manga generation tool and platform for IP fandom enthusiasts. Users can find performances on the platform that create mash-up ideas based on their favorite characters and AI-guided creations.
Team introduction: CEO Hu Xiuhan used to be the VP of Tezan Technology, and the senior technical expert of Alibaba's 2019 Double 11 3D digital visualization large screen; CPO Yujun Song graduated from CMU with a master's degree in human-computer interaction, and was the head of mental health product operation at Heartly Lab and the product manager of ByteDance; Zhang Chengyuan, the person in charge of algorithm operation and maintenance, used to be the head of Pony.ai's machine learning platform development and the development engineer of Facebook Location/Events related product lines.
Funding Plan: Viscep plans to close a $5 million pre-A round of financing.
BuyScout™（NetPrism Inc.）
Your shopping AI Copilot.
Project Introduction: NetPrism Inc. is an Internet big data and software company, and its product BuyScout is the world's first conversational shopping guide solution that applies large language models to the field of online shopping and retail. BuyScout disrupts traditional shopping with conversation. By talking to users, BuyScout will use the whole network product data and user preferences to provide answers to questions about consumption according to shopping needs and scenarios, including purchase suggestions and product comparison.
Team Introduction: The founding members are all students and alumni of the University of Washington. The two founders started several businesses during their college years and developed multiple products with millions of users. Founder/CEO Wendell Li, graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree, worked as a software engineer at Tencent Cloudflare, a serial entrepreneur, and the Restock Alerts product inventory monitoring released during school ranked 7th in the North American App Store; Co-founder/CTOHenry Bao graduated from the University of Washington and Cornell University with a master's degree, is a serial entrepreneur, and the Discord chatbot developed during his time in school has more than 300,000 users worldwide.
Financing Plan: NetPrism Inc. plans to complete an angel round of financing of US$2 million or RMB15 million.
ChatBrook
LLM-based human oral history tool + memory community + digital twin ecology.
Project Introduction: ChatBrook is committed to recording life moments and lifetimes for everyone at the lowest cost and highest quality. The project slogan is: let everyone have a Sima Qian by their side. Ruxi aims to: (1) build a recording tool based on an intelligent big language model; (2) Upgrade the tool to become a recording community and do high-sticky socialization; (3) make recording and socialization the basis for training digital twins; (4) Build a digital twin application ecosystem MaaS (Memory as a Service). In the future, the company can build a new business model based on MaaS and systematically rebuild the current inefficient and high-cost multi-scenario socio-economic behavior (finding a job, finding a partner, buying a car, buying a house, etc.).
Team introduction: Founder/Chairman/CEO Wang Huainan, graduated from Tsinghua University and Columbia University, once served as McKinsey, Procter & Gamble, Yahoo, Google and other multinational company executives, is Google's Chinese name "Google" namer, once founded the mother and baby online platform Babytree in 2007, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in November 2018, and founded Miccha Technology in 2021, committed to providing excellent products and services for the silver-haired population; Co-Founder/President Dr. Miao Yuan, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the CEO and co-founder of MobLab, created the world's largest behavioral gaming and artificial intelligence platform, managed the social science laboratories at Caltech and UCLA, and served as the technical director of the World Economic Science Association. Recently, Miao Yuan led the launch of the first personalized parenting application "Whiz" based on a large language model.
Funding Plan: ChatBrook plans to close a $20 million seed round.
Aura
ChatGPT for 3D worlds is an AI builder of interactive web experiences that puts users at the center of their own universe.
Project Introduction: Aura believes that the future of the networked world is 3D. The project aims to create an out-of-the-box Xiaofei experience for consumers, allowing them to independently use artificial intelligence technology to create their own 3D online world. The company has released a free demo in mid-2022 with more than 1,000 users, and completed the technical test version by the end of 2022, earning more than $2,000 in revenue. At present, the user test of the company's MVP (Minimum Viable Product) has begun.
Team Introduction: Aura team members are all from MIT. Jesus Lares holds a bachelor's degree in physics and computing from MIT, has published research in artificial intelligence and physics, worked as a product manager and artificial intelligence expert at Google, and has experience in launching 3D online consumer products. Stash Pomichter dropped out of MIT CS and has experience in the construction and commercialization of high-tech companies such as Presto (NASDAQ-listed) and Allurion (NYSE-listed).
Funding Plan: Aura plans to close a $1 million seed round.
Summations Education
AI-driven teaching platform that uses cutting-edge knowledge and personalized experience to achieve large-scale individualized teaching.
Summations Education is an AI-driven educational content platform. The company's A-driven teaching platform transforms raw knowledge, i.e. academic literature, with basic knowledge into educational products. Let any educator create a personalized learning experience for students using academic literature and the teaching resources generated from the literature of the project platform through simple keywords and course information. The company has signed up with more than 10 universities to pay for the pilot.
Team Introduction: Co-founder/CEO Wang Ziyan is a double major in economics and international development from the University of Toronto. Master's degree candidate at the University of Waterloo; Co-founder/CTO Lazar Jovanovic holds a master's degree from the University of Toronto. He is a postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University and has published more than 9 top journal papers in the field of biomedical engineering.
Financing Plan: Summations plans to complete a US$1.5 million or RMB10.5 million seed round financing.
Robots, chips and other hardware
Silicon-based integrated chip (Optical Introduction Technology)
Light is empowered by the core. Spectrometer chip + artificial intelligence algorithm redefines light sensing; Optical computing and optical switching chips have changed the artificial intelligence, optical communication and optical interconnection industries.
Project Introduction: GlitterinTech Limited was established in 2021, focusing on providing global customers with advanced on-chip optoelectronic integrated chips, including spectral analysis detection, communication optical exchange, AI optical acceleration algorithms and intelligent perception solutions, to support efficient research and development of technology users and empower the industry.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO Cheng Qixiang is an assistant professor and doctoral supervisor at Cambridge University; Chief scientist Richard Penty is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Dean of the University of Cambridge's Institute of Technology. Product VP Yanting has 14 years of experience in optoelectronic chip research and development; Biosensing VP Bright has 5 years of experience in technology entrepreneurship; Chief Financial Officer Ye Yuxiao has 8 years of experience in financial investment management.
Financing plan: Guangyin Technology plans to complete the 80 million RMB pre-A round of financing.
DVSense
The world's first dedicated bionic vision large-model chip to help intelligent manufacturing and intelligent robots.
Project Introduction: Dynamic MicroVision focuses on self-developed the world's first dedicated bionic vision processing platform, covering modules and chips, combined with visual models and advanced bionic eye vision sensors, providing users with ultra-low power consumption, real-time response, no privacy problems of a full set of vision solutions, helping intelligent manufacturing, consumer electronics, automatic driving and humanoid robots and many other fields.
Team introduction: Dr. Liu Min, founder and CEO of the team, and Dr. Liang Dongchen, co-founder/CTO of the team, are both from ETH Zurich; Principal Consultant Tobi Delbruck is a professor at ETH Zurich, an IEEE Fellow, and a well-known expert in neuromorphic engineering and computational neuroscience.
Financing plan: DVSense plans to complete an angel round of financing of RMB 20 million or USD equivalent
Jacobi. AI Jacobi robots
General robot AI and cross-form motion control, short-cycle, low-cost, high-flexibility robot development, deployment, operation and maintenance leader.
Project Introduction: Jacobi.ai is committed to combining multi-modal robot AI large model and cross-morphic motion control technology, and empowering all robot companies with RobotGPT and plug-and-play J-Box, which is convenient for shortening the R&D and deployment cycle, reducing flexible operation and maintenance costs, improving multi-task execution and humanized interaction capabilities, and allowing intelligent robots to quickly enter all walks of life and thousands of households.
Team introduction: CEO and head of robotics Qiu Dicong graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Robotics, has many years of cross-field research and landing experience in AI and robotics, and has participated/led NASA Mars rover research and development, L4 autonomous driving, indoor and outdoor robot full-stack R&D and operation landing projects; Ye Gengen, the head of hardware chips and production lines, used to be a senior engineer at Intel and Qualcomm, and has more than ten years of practical experience in the multi-core heterogeneous field of DSP, ARM, FPGA; Big Model Scientist Junwei Leung is a professor of artificial intelligence and CSE at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and later worked as a senior scientist at Google AI and Tencent Youtu Labs.
Financing plan: Jacobi.ai plans to complete an angel round of financing of RMB 20 million.
Number Theory Robot
Based on the large model, create a universal integrated intelligent industrial robot.
Project Introduction: Number theory technology builds a universal integrated intelligent industrial robot based on a large model. It is committed to using large models to directly understand and control industrial robot equipment such as robotic arms, AGVs, cameras, grippers and other industrial robot equipment through language, replacing complex processes such as traditional annotated data + model training + programming teaching + simulation rendering, and realizing efficient replacement of robots in more flexible production processes.
Team introduction: CEO Huang Zhen is a master's degree in the People's University of China, and was the general manager of the Shenzhen branch of AI company Qunzhi; CTO Liu Zhanliang is a former Microsoft, Baidu, Tencent, and KLCII GaoT, with rich practical experience in large-scale model projects; Wen Jirong, Chief Scientist of Big Model, is the Executive Dean of Hillhouse Artificial Intelligence College of Renmin University and has rich experience in the research and development of multimodal large models.
Financing plan: Number Theory Technology plans to complete an angel round of financing of 25 million RMB or equivalent US dollars.
External brain wearing
Based on innovative portable hardware, use large models to empower C-end users to solve practical problems in life and work.
Project Introduction: External brain technology is positioned as a next-generation hardware terminal company based on large models, aiming to collect big data through innovative software and hardware, deeply understand the details of users' lives, and guide users to solve practical problems through the logical ability of large models. The company believes that in the future, people will need two AIs: a housekeeper like Javis to assist living, and another to interact with other AIs and software on his own behalf. The external brain is committed to making the best user terminal platform in the model era and doing a good job of "two AI".
Team introduction: CEO Lanhe graduated from Imperial College London with a bachelor's degree, dropped out of the University of Manchester with a doctorate in materials chemistry, and has many years of experience in flexible electronic systems and wearable research, software and hardware development experience, and cutting-edge flexible electronics research and production experience; CTO Shengxia Li is a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Shanghai Jiaotong University, with many years of experience in materials and hardware development; Software development supervisor Ding Fang has many years of experience in software development and team management, and his technical experience involves security cameras, face recognition, Bluetooth BLE, NB protocol, live broadcast, IM communication, etc.
Financing plan: Exobrain Technology plans to complete a series A financing of 20 million RMB.
Body-like Robot (Rehabilitation & Fitness)
Use LEGO thinking to be the rehabilitation fitness robot that knows your body best.
Project Introduction: Shanghai Rushen Robot Co., Ltd. focuses on the field of rehabilitation and fitness, and is committed to developing modular, cost-effective, human-machine integration rehabilitation robot products. The modular force-controlled joint and fun game library is used to build a rehabilitation robot matrix to achieve the coverage of full rehabilitation scenes and full rehabilitation cycles, and will expand to the field of fitness.
Team introduction: Dr. Shi Yunlei, founder and CEO, graduated from the University of Hamburg, Germany, is one of the founders of Shanghai MicroPort Medical Robot and one of the co-founders of Agile Robots, a German robot unicorn. Chief Scientist Zhang Jianwei is an academician of the German Academy of Engineering, a pioneer of cross-modal learning in the interdisciplinary research fields of computer science, neuroscience and psychology, and has rich experience and resources in the fields of medical rehabilitation and elderly services.
Financing plan: InformRobot has completed a 5 million seed round of financing, and now plans to complete an angel round of financing of 30 million RMB or equivalent US dollars.
moss Robots
Make farming easy, fun, and profitable.
Moss Robots aims to transform the work scenarios of high-value crops by integrating intelligent automation and digital technologies. Initially focused on tree nurseries, the company is currently developing highly autonomous, compact agricultural robots that provide valuable insights to improve operational efficiency and advance precision agriculture. At present, the company has collected two letters of intent to purchase a total of 10 robots.
Team introduction: The founding team are all master's graduates of CMU Robotics Institute. CEO Yudan Hu focuses on liberal arts research on sustainable agricultural practices and labor issues; CTO Shrijit Singh has six years of experience in robotics starting at undergraduate level.
Funding Plan: Moss Robots plans to close a $3 million seed round.
Pule Jingyi
Ultra-precision measuring instruments and equipment domestic replacement leader.
Project Introduction: Pule Precision is a technology company focusing on the research and development of a new generation of ultra-precision measuring instruments, mainly for semiconductor equipment, high-end CNC machine tools and other industries. The products of this project adopt the self-developed new method of super-resolution microscopic visual measurement, solve the problem of measurement principle with revolutionary technology, and the performance comparison results prove the superiority of the method, which will lead the development of a new generation of ultra-precision measurement technology.
Team introduction: Founder and CEO Zhao Chenyang is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Automation of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen); COO Peter has been engaged in the semiconductor equipment and machine tool industry for more than 10 years and has thousands of customer resources; CTO Xiang Jie is a master of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) and an expert in measurement algorithm technology.
Financing plan: Plans to complete the angel round of financing
Dimensing fundus imaging
Cellular-level full-retinal full-scale fundus imaging, bringing fundus imaging into a new era.
Project Introduction: Dimensing is committed to using adaptive optics technology to create a full-scale fundus imaging device from tissue to cell. In addition to covering the functions of multiple fundus imaging devices on the market, a single full-scale fundus imaging can also solve many bottlenecks, improve efficiency for doctors and save equipment purchase and maintenance costs.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO JX, Ph.D. of California Institute of Technology, engaged in optical system design, adaptive optics technology, image processing and other work for many years, as a research scientist in the leading consumer electronics company in the United States; CTO YC holds a bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, with many years of experience in OCT system and software development, and is directly involved in ophthalmic clinical research.
Migo Robotics
Take multi-floor home cleaning robots as the starting point to create a comprehensive intelligent home service ecology.
Project Introduction: Miaoguo Technology has created the world's first 3D full-space cleaning robot, which can climb stairs at low cost and efficiency through original mechanical structure and dynamic control algorithms. One machine can complete the whole house cleaning, solving the multi-floor cleaning problem of European and American families. The key technology that crosses the barrier structure has been protected by patents in both China and the United States. At the same time, the company has developed a full set of vision solutions based on mobile transformers, so that robots have better environment perception capabilities.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO Long Yun is the former leader of Google's TPU model optimization team, with deep accumulation in the implementation of AI solutions, and led the research and development of EdgeTPU visual models to serve billions of Android mobile phone users around the world; Co-founder/CTO Youdong Wang is a former Ocean Lab robotics project leader; Co-founder/COO Feng Zhu is the former head of Cobos North American sales system.
Financing plan: Miaoguo Technology plans to complete an angel round of financing of 20 million RMB.
Lithium-volt energy (LiVOLT)
The next generation of ultra-fast fast charging/fast discharging ultra-high specific energy lithium battery manufacturer.
Project Introduction: Aiming at scenarios of high-power fast charging/fast discharge requirements (scientific experiments, electronic cigarettes, robots, drones, lunar rovers, Mars rovers, electric aircraft, etc.), Lifu Energy Technology Co., Ltd. integrates advanced equipment and advanced technology to open up all links from key materials to key device manufacturing on the basis of ultra-high specific energy cell research. Committed to becoming the next generation of ultra-fast fast charging/fast discharge high specific energy lithium battery manufacturer.
Team Introduction:
The founder Yan Chong is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Institute of Technology, and has been selected as a global highly cited scientist (top 1%) in 2021 and 2022; Co-founder Yao Yuxing is a doctoral student at Tsinghua University and received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2019. Co-founder Chen Yuanjun holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in engineering from Tsinghua University and a master's degree in business administration from Peking University.
Financing plan: LiVOLT plans to complete an angel round of financing of 10-15 million RMB.
Tepan
The minimalist integrated kitchen + automated recipe "App Store" makes there no dish in the world that cannot be eaten.
Project introduction: Aiming at the North American market, it aims to create a minimalist and integrated Western-style kitchen at a cost of less than $400, providing a robot recipe editor and recipe sharing platform. The company has obtained angel investment from the leading kitchen appliances industry (Jiuyang, Shark Ninja) at home and abroad.
Team introduction: CEO graduated from (Imperial College + Royal Art) Dyson College of Design and Engineering with a master's degree, has twice profitable consumer hardware overseas entrepreneurial experience, once served as a product designer in the incubation period of consumer electronics unicorns, worked as a product design manager in Xiaomi and left the highest priority consumer electronics international patent as a work; CTO works on machine vision and multimodal robotics at Stanford Feifei Li's lab.
PENG & LEUNG
The company that knows the most about hearing.
Project Introduction: Starting from the world's first luxury headset, through high gross profit continuous investment in research and development, gradually realize the digitalization of the whole link of hearing, and become the company that understands hearing best.
Team introduction: Peng Luozhou is a bachelor's degree in electronic and electrical engineering from UCL, dropped out of audiology and returned to China to start a full-time business, former research assistant of the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, began to make headphones at the age of 11, former customers include Hanyu Yuxun, Xiao Jingteng, Wang Sulong, etc.; Peitao Liang is a UCL majoring in Politics, Economics and History.
Biomedical
TreasureBio
Unlocking Anti-Aging Starts with Extending Reproductive Lifespan - An Innovative Targeted Anti-Aging Drug R&D Platform Based on Proteomics.
Treasure Biosciences is committed to developing revolutionary targeted drugs to extend women's reproductive life. Based on decades of scientific research achievements of top universities and academic medical centers in the United States, high-throughput proteomics and new targeted drug models are used to fill clinical gaps, develop effective, non-invasive and safe drugs to maintain the health of the female reproductive system, and delay decline for 5-10 years.
Team introduction: Founder and CEO Zhan Bao is a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Oxford University, with more than ten years of experience in international biological research and pharmaceutical industry, and has worked in Boao Biotechnology, IQVIA, etc.; Co-founder/Scientific Director Christopher Hine is an assistant professor at the Cleveland Clinic and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Nick Morse, Executive Director/Medical Director, is an MD from Harvard University and has more than 20 years of clinical, teaching and industrial experience in obstetrics and gynaecology in China and the United States.
Funding Plan: Treasure Biosciences plans to close a $5 million seed round.
High-throughput enzymatic DNA synthesizer
Design enzyme molecular machines to synthesize DNA, replacing chemical synthesis, and reducing the cost by 10 times.
Project Introduction: Develop enzymatic long fragment DNA synthesis technology and enzymatic DNA fragment splicing technology, integrate into high-throughput enzymatic DNA synthesizer, greatly reduce the cost of DNA synthesis, so as to efficiently achieve large-scale gene synthesis, and integrate gene/protein design technology to provide large-scale gene design and synthesis services for the biotechnology industry.
Team introduction: Founder and CEO Fan Yu is a Ph.D. in biomedicine from the University of Macau, and after graduation, he worked as a visiting scholar and researcher at Kobilka Institute of Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and a researcher in a venture capital institution; Huan Yang, the founder/CTO, holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, and has done postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Institution and ShanghaiTech University, under the tutelage of Michael Levitt, a 2013 Nobel laureate.
Financing plan: The company plans to complete an angel round of financing of 20 million RMB.
Pando Bioscience
Use synthetic biology to decode protein interactions and innovate drug discovery.
Pando Bioscience, a cancer drug discovery company, aims to use synthetic biology to study the interactions between healthy cells and proteins in cancer cells and build an atlas of these interactions. Identify protein interactions that cause cancer by comparing maps to specifically target drugs. The solid tumor market currently targeted by the project has 100 billion dollars of TAM. Four months after its establishment, it has already acquired two paying customers, completing the acceleration of US YC.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO Yang Xiaolu Cao is a Ph.D. in synthetic biology from Duke University, an early employee of synthetic biology unicorn Ginkgo Bioworks, specializing in DNA design and species modification; Founder/CTO Wang Wei is a Ph.D. from Peking University, a postdoctoral fellow at Dana Farber Cancer Center at Harvard University, and an employee of Ginkgo Bioworks, specializing in protein design and experimental platform construction. Founder/COO Zhaojing Li holds a master's degree from Columbia University and has investment and financing experience in China and the United States.
Financing Plan: Pando Bioscience plans to close a $1.5 million angel round of financing
CoBiota
The world's first technology to convert sugar intake into dietary fiber.
Project Description: CoBiota aims to enable users to convert a portion of their daily sugar intake directly into dietary fiber in the gut to lead a healthier lifestyle by reducing free sugar intake. The project plans to launch a beverage that uses the technology and sell it through retail and direct-to-consumer distribution channels. The company has signed an exclusive technology license with Harvard University.
Team introduction: CEO Jesse Lee has more than six years of bioengineering research experience, graduated from McGill University with a major in biochemistry, and was the head of technical research at Carbon Upcycling Technologies. CMO Albert Cheng is a business student at the University of Toronto and previously worked at L'Oréal; Advisor Peter Barton Hutt is a senior attorney at Covington & Burling, specializing in food and drug regulation, and previously served as lead counsel to the FDA.
Funding Plan: CoBiota plans to close a $3.5 million seed round.
Persperion
Redefining health management with sweat.
Project Description: After several years, the team has developed a solid biological enzyme test strip: the glucose level of fingertip sweat can be measured with just 30 seconds of direct finger pressing. The project aims to make health management common, simple and painless by detecting the components in sweat.
Team introduction: Founder/CEO, technology inventor Yin Lu is Dr. UC San Diego, who has published more than 40 high-impact papers and several patents in the field of electrochemistry; Founder/COO Xinyu Liu graduated from UCSD with a bachelor's degree in nanoengineering and a master's degree in management from Duke University, with many years of experience in Silicon Valley product management and development; Founder/CSO Joseph Wang is a UCSD Distinguished Professor, SAIC Distinguished Chair, one of the world's most renowned analytical chemists, and a leader in the field of electrochemical sensors.
Funding Plan: Persperion plans to close a $1.5 million Series A financing.
OxSyns
Building a cell-free intelligent manufacturing space, liberating the productivity of enzymes, and opening a new era of creation of raw materials for life.
Project Introduction: The project takes cell-free synthesis as the core technical route, and the unique nanoelectrode technology provides an efficient reaction platform for biological enzyme catalytic synthesis, and has successfully verified dozens of different reaction enzymes, such as reductases, oxidases, transaminases, P450, CAR, etc. Through the platform multi-enzyme coupling technology, tens of thousands of small molecules can be synthesized, which can be widely used in the production of pharmaceuticals, food and cosmetics.
Team introduction: The company is co-founded by Fan Yilin, Bao Yinpeng and Zhao Xu, the founding team all graduated from Oxford University, and has rich experience in business operation, engineering scale-up and industrial investment and financing. Chief Scientific Advisor, Academician Amstrong, is from the University of Oxford; The advisory committee is composed of 8 professors and experts from top institutions at home and abroad, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nankai University, and the Max Planck Institute in Germany.