Tigerobo

Tigerobo (虎博科技) is an AI company founded in 2017 by Chen Ye, formerly a senior vice president at Meituan-Dianping, and John Canny, a UC Berkeley computer science professor known for the Canny edge detection algorithm . The company builds intelligent search and information products using natural language processing and deep learning, with an initial focus on financial data—its flagship "Tigerobo Search" (虎博搜索) parses and summarizes global capital markets information in real time, covering macro data, industry trends, announcements, research reports, and alternative data .

By late 2019, Tigerobo had raised roughly $60 million in total funding, including a $33 million Series A in March 2019 led by PAC, CreditEase's fintech fund, and Gaorong Ventures . Its client list spanned institutional investors like CICC and Harvest Fund, as well as regulators and media groups, while its consumer-facing apps—"Ximei" (西梅), "Venture Capital Pie" (创投派), and others—had reportedly reached millions of users . The company's self-stated ambition was to become the "gateway for the AI era," making structured and unstructured information more accessible through machine reading comprehension, translation, and automated summarization .