Yunqi Capital x Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Engineering Research | "Finding Next-Gen AI Founders" AI2C Session — Now Open for Registration

How do you ride the AI iteration wave to create the next breakout consumer product? How do you properly transfer past successes to break through growth bottlenecks in the AI era? How do you capture the user habits, traffic logic, and business models being reshaped right now — and find growth tactics better suited to today's market?

If you've repeatedly charged into the consumer market and now stand at AI's crossroads, these are likely the very questions you're pursuing. As it happens, finding answers alongside founders is precisely what Yunqi Capital keeps doing. Following April's Agent gathering, on May 25, Yunqi Capital will partner with Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Industrial Technology Research Institute and Datawhale to present "What's Next: Finding Next-Gen AI Founders" — an AI-to-Consumer special session. We sincerely invite entrepreneurial players who've experienced the "zero to one" journey to join us offline for open conversation about the opportunities and challenges AI presents for consumer products. If you're exploring new AI-to-consumer opportunities or hoping to find your product direction in this wave of transformation, welcome to this intimate, curated closed-door discussion. We believe innovative sparks come not from one-way output, but from mutual commitment.

➤ What we'll discuss together:

• The biggest lessons & learnings from your entrepreneurial experience
• Your current product or idea 💡, and what you're most seeking (finding people / finding direction)
• Decision anxiety: how to choose technical paths, how to allocate limited resources?
• User reach: lacking effective MVP validation mechanisms, how to solve high early-stage cold-start costs?
• Growth bottlenecks: reading user pain points and market rhythm, how to efficiently break through in the consumer space?
• ……

• To ensure quality exchange, this event is limited to 30 seats. If you're an AI innovator in the consumer space / a product manager with unique insights on tech-enabled consumer products / an early-stage founder looking to connect with the AI startup ecosystem, welcome to apply and join us offline for the conversation :)

Event details and registration QR code in the poster below Registration deadline: 6 PM, May 22

➤ About the Co-organizers

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Industrial Technology Research Institute (full name: "Shanghai Jiao Tong University Industrial Technology Innovation Research Institute") is an AI incubator and accelerator jointly established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai's Xuhui District Government. It operates as an integrated trinity with Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Artificial Intelligence and the Shanghai Algorithm Innovation Research Institute, building a full-chain innovation path from "0 to 1," "1 to 100," and "100 to N" — opening new pathways for regional original innovation, technology transfer, and industrial clustering to achieve a self-sustaining cycle of research-to-commercialization. The institute connects on-campus and off-campus, domestic and overseas, and across the AI industry, with focused breakthroughs in embodied intelligence, AI globalization, and AI for Science/Engineering. Through services including an AI globalization accelerator, AI community, AI enablement platform, and AI talent pool, it achieves value co-creation among universities, local government, and industry.

Datawhale is a leading AI open-source learning community in China, ranked 64th globally on GitHub. It brings together outstanding learners from numerous academic institutions and well-known enterprises, uniting team members with open-source spirit and exploratory drive. Datawhale also serves as a bridge between industry and academia, currently covering 3,000+ universities and 1,000+ companies globally, having helped over 1 million AI developers learn and grow.