Win-Win Cooperation, Empowering Innovation, Building a Sci-Tech Ecosystem Together | Zhangjiang Group × Yunqi Capital

➤➤➤ To deepen its ecosystem collaboration with Zhangjiang Science and Technology Investment, and to help portfolio companies understand Zhangjiang's innovation and entrepreneurship environment, Zhangjiang Group and Yunqi Capital co-hosted a portfolio company exchange event on April 10 at Star Space on the rooftop of the Zhangjiang Science Hall. The gathering aimed to address bottlenecks and challenges encountered during the startup journey.

Nine Yunqi Capital portfolio companies participated in the event, engaging in in-depth discussions on business development, industry trends, and how to further build a science and technology innovation ecosystem, exploring possibilities for diverse collaboration.

Zhangjiang has been one of Yunqi Capital's earliest investors, providing years of continuous support for our focus on early-stage investment in technology innovation and industrial empowerment. "We are deeply grateful for Zhangjiang's unwavering support," said a Yunqi Capital founding partner at the event. "As a specialized venture capital firm dedicated to technology innovation and industrial empowerment, we have experienced firsthand the passion for innovation and entrepreneurship that permeates this land."

The Zhangjiang Ecosystem: Gathering Talent, Sustaining Innovation

Yuan Tao, Party Secretary and Chairman of Zhangjiang Group

Yuan Tao, Party Secretary and Chairman of Zhangjiang Group, said: "Zhangjiang is a place brimming with futuristic technology. In recent years, it has achieved remarkable results in three major industries: biomedicine, integrated circuits, and artificial intelligence. Here, diverse industrial resources converge, attracting wave after wave of enterprises. For instance, the convergence of biomedicine and AI technology has given rise to the Zhangjiang AI New Drug R&D Alliance. Zhangjiang's industrial ecosystem aligns closely with the sectors represented by today's participants. We look forward to strengthening comprehensive interaction with our fund partners and portfolio companies through this exchange, seeking more opportunities for collaboration through dialogue."

Chen Heng, Deputy General Manager of Zhangjiang Group

Chen Heng, Deputy General Manager of Zhangjiang Group, noted that after more than 30 years of development, Zhangjiang has evolved from global aggregation to innovation leadership, burnishing its reputation in "pharma" and "chips" while continuously building an AI ecosystem and a robotics industry hub. Zhangjiang's most formidable asset is its technological strength; its most abundant resource is its industrial ecosystem. Yet it relies even more on outstanding venture capital firms like Yunqi Capital to attract talent and intelligence to Zhangjiang. This event represents an excellent opportunity for such talent exchange.

Yu Hongliang, General Manager of Zhangjiang Science and Technology Investment

Yu Hongliang, General Manager of Zhangjiang Science and Technology Investment, said: "Zhangjiang Science City serves as a reservoir for Pudong's science and technology talent pool. We hope to leverage entrepreneur exchange activities like this one to share the resource advantages of building a business in Zhangjiang, serve our entrepreneurs well, listen to their needs, help them overcome bottlenecks and challenges on their entrepreneurial journey, and accelerate their leapfrog development through Zhangjiang's innovation momentum."

Guan Fenghua, Deputy Director of Zhangjiang Group Investment Promotion Service Center

Guan Fenghua, Deputy Director of Zhangjiang Group Investment Promotion Service Center, shared Zhangjiang's innovation ecosystem from the perspectives of major scientific facilities, public service platforms, research institutes, and innovative talent. Empowered by this innovation ecosystem, Zhangjiang's industries thrive. Currently, Zhangjiang is home to over 24,000 enterprises, more than 300 national and municipal R&D institutions, 66 multinational headquarters, over 1,800 high-tech enterprises, more than 100 unicorns and near-unicorns, over 30 universities and research institutes, and approximately 499,000 employees. Today, Zhangjiang Science City is striding toward becoming a world-class science city with "distinct scientific characteristics, concentrated technology elements, environmental and cultural ecology, and vibrant innovation."

Nine Companies, Each with Distinct Strengths

Subsequently, the nine Yunqi Capital portfolio companies engaged in in-depth exchanges about their respective development models, innovative products, team members, and core competencies. The Yunqi Capital founding partner expressed hope that "Yunqi's portfolio companies can leverage Zhangjiang's full-industry-chain ecological advantages to spark more possibilities for collaboration, promoting mutual growth."

Mao Chengyu, Founding Partner of Yunqi Capital

Zheng Ruiting, Executive Director of Yunqi Capital

Founded in 2015, Triastek is a 3D-printed drug technology platform company. Its proprietary MED® 3D printing technology is a universal solid-dosage-form patent technology applicable not only to small-molecule drug development but also potentially to oral delivery of large-molecule drugs. It covers digital drug formulation design and development as well as continuous manufacturing, providing partners with full-chain technical solutions from drug research and development to production. According to Zheng Ruiting, Executive Director of Yunqi Capital, portfolio company Triastek currently has over 10 internal and external pipeline programs in development, seven collaborations with domestic and international pharmaceutical companies, and three R&D products in clinical stages.

Wang Dadi, Co-founder of Langjing Technology

Wang Dadi, Co-founder of Langjing Technology, said: "Langjing Technology leverages its leading AI, image recognition, crowdsourcing platform, and Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities to transform everyday shelf images into real-time, actionable insights, enabling clients to optimize in-store execution strategies and improve product availability. Currently, the company partners with well-known industry leaders both domestically and internationally. Numerous top consumer brands and retailers use Langjing Technology's in-store execution tools, data analytics services, and shelf monitoring solutions to optimize terminal displays, enhance shopper experience, and unlock revenue growth opportunities across the sales chain."

Han Li, Founder of Yizao Technology

As an integrated hardware-software platform for construction robots with independent intellectual property rights, Yizao Technology has developed multiple deployable intelligent construction innovations, demonstrated dozens of industry-leading intelligent design + construction practice cases, and redefined the digital economy platform for intelligent building production. Han Li, Founder of Yizao Technology, said: "Yizao Technology has independently developed the FURobot construction robot control software platform and the FUSense comprehensive perception software platform for both prefabrication and on-site scenarios, with research results covering up to 15 intelligent construction robot processes. These have been successfully applied to over 30 demonstration projects at home and abroad, and we hope to contribute to the construction of Zhangjiang's future city."

Chen Zhigang, Founder of Hetan Medicine

Chen Zhigang, Founder of Hetan Medicine, introduced that the company was established in June 2022 and currently operates a digital R&D laboratory in Zhangjiang Medicine Valley. "Hetan Medicine utilizes digital and AI technologies to serve R&D and development in pharmaceuticals, life sciences, chemistry, and materials science. Its Labwise product matrix includes three products — Lab-Brain, Lab-Run, and Lab-Vision — helping scientists and enterprises create new value faster and more efficiently. The company completed its seed round in August 2022 and secured its first commercial partnership client this March."

Lu Ke, Marketing Partner of Juefx Technology

Lu Ke, Marketing Partner of Juefx Technology, said: "Juefx Technology takes multi-sensor fusion computing as its core technical approach, providing cross-scenario, cross-platform, and cross-terminal intelligent driving solutions around three major application scenarios: passenger vehicle mobility, trunk logistics, and urban last-mile delivery — achieving the rare 'three-cross' service capability in the domestic industry. The company's fusion perception system currently covers both vehicle-side and roadside applications, building a production-ready solution with perception-decision-data closed-loop capabilities applicable to full-stack autonomous driving. With data-driven mass production as its core business objective, it enables partners to achieve autonomous driving closed-loop capabilities."

Cui Junfeng, Co-founder of Baiyin Biology

Baiyin Biology engages in sustainable biomaterials research and development based on a dual-core technology platform of high-throughput synthetic biology and artificial intelligence (BT-IT), focusing on high-value-added protein and polysaccharide innovative raw materials with broad market prospects. Cui Junfeng, Co-founder of Baiyin Biology, introduced that the company was founded in 2021 and, to better achieve product commercialization, has innovatively developed high-throughput automation, cross-engineering, metabolic engineering, artificial intelligence, and materials evaluation platforms. Through rational design, the company endows materials with unique biological activity and life-like characteristics, widely applied in pharmaceuticals, medical care, cosmetics, food, and other fields.

Shi Changyun, Founder of Jinggui Intelligence

From Shi Changyun, Founder of Jinggui Intelligence, introduced the company's core technical moat: pioneer in domestic intelligent solid-state categories, multi-disciplinary innovation integration, and over 100 fully independent intellectual property patents. Born in Kehai Tower in early 2020, he noted the company's two technical innovations: first, a multi-disciplinary innovative solid-state digital switch achieving over 1,000x performance improvement in key metrics; second, functional innovations combining multiple capabilities in response to new trends in digital transformation of the power distribution market. Currently, Jinggui Intelligence's solid-state digital circuit breakers have gained high recognition from 5G industry leaders and have successively secured bulk orders from major clients, successfully entering large-scale commercial deployment.

Shi Yifei, Shanghai Head of NineCube Microelectronics

NineCube Microelectronics established its Shanghai subsidiary in Zhangjiang in 2021. It is an international software company focused on EDA services, planning and building a complete "RF EDA toolchain" around the main segments of RF integrated circuit design. Shi Yifei, Shanghai Head of NineCube Microelectronics, said the company's core foundational capability lies in the platformization of PDE solver root technology, providing world-class multi-physics simulation software. According to the introduction, NineCube Microelectronics' 3D full-wave electromagnetic field simulation tool eWave provides the most effective industrial simulation technology for IC multi-layer structures, effectively handling passive devices in RFICs.

Cheng Tangsheng, Founder & CEO of Guangbenwei

Cheng Tangsheng, Founder & CEO of Guangbenwei, said: "Guangbenwei is an optical computing chip R&D platform based on innovative applications of phase-change materials. In 2021, our team published research in Nature demonstrating that optical neuromorphic computing has achieved photonic in-memory computing, creating distance from traditional optical computing chips in terms of power consumption, stability, and latency. Our core team comes from top international universities and major chip manufacturers, with combined backgrounds in scientific research breakthroughs and engineering delivery."

Going forward, Yunqi Capital will continue to adhere to early-stage technology investment and long-term deep service, actively contributing to the Zhangjiang science and technology innovation ecosystem, helping tech startups develop steadily and grow rapidly, and creating genuine long-term value under Zhangjiang's more complete full-industry-chain ecological advantages.