Ling Fan

Ling Fan is the founder and CEO of Tezign, a Chinese creative-tech company established in 2015 that builds digital infrastructure for content production, management, distribution, and analytics . He also directs the Design Intelligence Lab at Tongji University . Linear Capital, which led Tezign's angel round in 2015, has tracked his trajectory closely over the years .

Fan's academic background spans UCB, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Tongji . He traces his entrepreneurial impulse to 1999, when a *BusinessWeek* story about AOL's acquisition of Time Warner caught his attention during high school . At Tezign, he has pursued what he calls a "technology + creativity" product strategy focused on large enterprise clients , and in 2023 was named to the *Harvard Business Review* China New Growth · Pioneer list for his business practice and intellectual influence . More recently, he has articulated a framework for how incumbent software companies should approach AI integration—arguing that simply layering AI features onto existing products typically produces "more functions, messier interfaces, thinner margins" —and launched atypica.AI, a product using language models to model subjective decision-making processes .