Ling Xia
夏令
Ling Xia (夏令) is a partner at MingShi Capital (明势资本) and an investor in MiniMax, one of China's prominent large language model startups . He has appeared alongside fellow AI investors at WAVES conferences in both 2024 and 2025, where he discussed early-stage bets on LLMs in what 暗涌Waves described as a climate of "desire and non-consensus" . In his investment approach, Ling has been characterized as part of a camp that backs "entrepreneurs" over young talent, according to elsewhere's 2026 survey of China's "Six Little Tigers" fundraising stories . He has also written personally about evaluating AI products hands-on—once testing multiple health apps and AI calorie trackers alongside a human nutritionist to assess an AI health coach pitch .
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The Fundraising Stories of China's "Six Little Tigers": Six Paths, Six Lives
If Kimi ever goes public, will the bell-ringing photo look very different?
elsewhere别处发生·I think the sun will shine bright tomorrow morning | Opening Remarks
Maybe wrong, always fun.
elsewhere别处发生·A Year Later, When Kimi and MiniMax Investors Sat Down Together Again
The wildest possibility may be that humans won't be the only intelligent species on this planet.
暗涌Waves·Consensus Within Non-Consensus: A Conversation Among China's LLM Investors | Yunqi Tech π
New Wave, New Future
云启资本·When Moonshot AI's investors sat down with MiniMax's investors
Five individuals and two companies.
暗涌Waves·"Late to the Party": How Xiaomi and Huawei Are Outflanking Legacy Automakers
The bloody battle has already begun.
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