David Li
李一帆
David Li (李一帆) is the co-founder and CEO of Hesai Technology, the lidar maker. Per Qiming Venture Partners' portfolio coverage, he earned his PhD from UIUC, previously served as chief engineer at Western Digital, and holds 100+ patents across robotics, motion control, sensors, and advanced manufacturing . He's described as both founder and co-founder/CEO across Qiming's 2025 reporting, including a June 2025 interview with 中国企业家 on Hesai's trajectory and an appearance at the 2025 Summer Davos forum where he gave a Bloomberg interview . Note that elsewhere's corpus also contains other people named David Li (e.g., David Silver and David Wu surface in adjacent coverage), so the profile above refers specifically to the Hesai co-founder.
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Coverage
Qiming Venture Partners Weekly · Top 10 Portfolio News, Vol. 05, 2026.2.11
Staying with you through the milestone moments of Qiming Venture Partners' portfolio companies
Qiming Weekly | Qiming Venture Partners Portfolio News and Updates Vol. 40, 2025
Celebrating milestone moments with Qiming Venture Partners' portfolio companies
Rebuilding on the Ruins of "Double Reduction": A Conversation with Serial Entrepreneur Liu Ye — From Zuoyebang to Talkit
Keep swimming until the sea turns blue.
Qiming Weekly | Qiming Venture Partners Portfolio Funding and Updates Vol. 35, 2025
Staying with you through milestone moments at Qiming Venture Partners portfolio companies
Qiming Venture Partners' Portfolio Company Hesai Technology Completes Dual Primary Listing on Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
Qiming Venture Partners has long paid close attention to innovation and transformation in the autonomous driving space. In 2019, Qiming Venture Partners participated in Hesai Technology's Series C financing and continued to invest in its Series D round.
Qiming Stars | Multiple Qiming Venture Partners Portfolio Companies Appear at 2025 Summer Davos Forum
As a dialogue platform hailed as a "barometer of the world economy," the Summer Davos Forum brings together global leaders, innovators, and changemakers to tackle pressing economic challenges and explore new frontiers of sustainable and inclusive growth.
Qiming Star | Hesai Technology's David Li: Focus on In-House High-Performance Products and Continuously Improve Operational Efficiency
Each generation of products demands radical innovation and heavy upfront investment to strike a balance between lower costs and high performance.
Qiming Weekly | Qiming Venture Partners Portfolio Funding and Updates Roundup Vol. 13, 2025
Following Qiming Venture Partners' portfolio companies' milestone moments with you
127 startups founded by Tsinghua alumni, all backed by this one fund
On average, one out of every six companies ZhenFund has invested in comes from Tsinghua University.
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Long, languid July.
