Kaiwuji
开物纪
Kaiwuji (开物纪) is an AI-for-science (AI4S) startup building materials intelligence infrastructure, founded in 2025 by Lu Ziheng (陆子恒), an international leading scientist in AI-driven materials research who previously left Microsoft to start the company . Its mission is to use AI to discover and validate new materials that could "change human destiny" and move them from lab to scalable production . The company raised a seed round of several hundred million RMB led by Monolith砺思资本, with follow-on from Guanghe Ventures and JAFCO Asia, and saw pro-rata participation from existing investors including Hillhouse, IDG, BlueRun Ventures, Baidu Ventures, and L2F . BlueRun Ventures, which led the angel round, later doubled down in an angel+ round of hundreds of millions of RMB . Yang Mengyang (杨孟洋), a co-founder with a cross-disciplinary background in optics, electronics, and materials and formerly a senior research manager at Microsoft UK, leads the team alongside Lu . The company is positioning itself as a kind of "Flagship Pioneering for materials" — aiming to systematically invent high-value material IP rather than just sell tools .
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