KICKER

Kicker is an AI agent product founded by 28-year-old serial entrepreneur Liu Jiabei (Alex), who previously built a tech media property with million-view "ten-thousand-word" long-form articles and a game that reached 500,000 DAU and attracted investment from a top-100 North American DJ . The product connects to users' email, calendar, and chat histories across WhatsApp, Telegram, and iMessage , then proactively intervenes in daily life with a "toxic friend" persona—roasting users for procrastination with lines like "do you want your power cut or your internet disconnected?" .

Yunqi Capital's Gavin Wei, who led the investment through the firm's "Y Transformers" program for post-'98 founders, was drawn to Kicker's agentic memory architecture and full-context approach, which he saw as an application layer capable of popularizing memory infrastructure for AI . The team demonstrated unusual execution velocity, pushing new TestFlight builds daily between midnight and 1 a.m. during early development . Kicker was also forced to rebuild its technical architecture in just six days following the launch of Openclaw, according to Yunqi's podcast .