The Sharpest Minds at Top Universities Know How to Make Money — Tonight They’re All at This Bar｜AI Night Hunt · Professor Special
Grab a drink at the bar and hear how professors are building startups.
AI Night Hunt Returns This Fall
🔥 Theme: Professor, Please Stay
🕙 Tuesday, October 27, 7:30 PM 📌 D·HOP (Dazhongsi), Haidian District, Beijing 👩🏻🏫 Dress code: Academia
This time around
Our speakers have shifted from founders to professors — the most sought-after entrepreneurs of our era.
We've asked them to stay a while and tell us, over drinks,
how they turned a pile of lab research into startup ventures.
And we'll do our best to make them keep it accessible, so the rest of us can follow along.
3 Speakers Locked In
🧪 A researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Biochemistry Institute, working on AI for Biotech — building causal models of living systems from real experimental data
🔬 Chief scientist of a domestic chip project, Tsinghua University CS — while the industry races after compute power, he's laying the foundation for it
🚀 A Peking University PhD advisor and Carnegie Mellon University postdoc — one of the youngest people in China who can tell you exactly how much a single inference costs
3 Spots Still Open — Professors, Apply Now
Meet any one of the following criteria:
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Academic credentials: currently employed professor/associate professor, researcher, university lab or project lead, or researcher at a scientific institute (Chinese Academy of Sciences, new R&D institutions, etc.)
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Have a technical demo, patents, a company in preparation, or participate in a company as a technical co-founder or chief scientist
Scan to apply — we'll be in touch soon
How Does AI Night Hunt Work?
A unique event format created by AI Night;
In a venture capital world of solemn narratives and grand rhetoric, we're trying to create something more improvised, more unpredictable.
Think of it as an offline Product Hunt;
Except we've moved the online leaderboard into a pub, swapped upvotes for golden spoons cast on the spot, turned project descriptions into real people on stage, and comments into live grilling.
In the first half of this year, we held 6 events in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen. 80 startups made their debut, 1500+ participants cast their golden spoons;
People found investors, co-founders, technical partners — and at least one person found a long-lost lover.
Past event recaps:
One Night in Shenzhen, We Left With Many Feelings | 9 Projects at Night Hunt
Audience Registration Now Open
Scan to register 👆
To ensure quality, this event uses a strict vetting process for precise matching
Registration Form Requires:
Your objective: Commercializable research / professor-led startups / technical collaboration / AI talent
Your ammunition: Industrial scenarios and orders / capital / distribution channels / compute resources / core technology
Application deadline: Sunday, October 25, 10 AM
We'll notify accepted attendees by Sunday, October 25, 2 PM via group chat.
With Thanks
👏 Ecosystem Partners for This Event
MaShang Accelerator, Gaojie Capital, Tanqi Capital, Zhihu Technology (listed alphabetically)
They've provided quality university resources and participants for this event,
and they'll be bringing their own resources to the venue to help out
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October 27, 7:30 PM, Beijing
Venue: D·HOP (Dazhongsi), Haidian District, Beijing
AI Night Hunt — Fall Edition
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