Tigerobo

Tigerobo is an AI company founded in July 2017 by Chen Ye, formerly a senior vice president at Meituan-Dianping overseeing the group's advertising platform, and John Canny, a UC Berkeley computer science professor since 1987 and inventor of the Canny edge detection algorithm . The company specializes in natural language processing and intelligent search, with an initial focus on financial information services—positioning itself to make "people's access to information and knowledge simpler" .

Its core product "Tigerobo Search" processes global capital markets data across macro, industry, announcements, research reports, news and alternative data dimensions, offering real-time, automated information extraction, parsing, understanding and summarization . By late 2019, Tigerobo had built a "C+B" dual-engine model: serving institutional clients including the People's Bank of China, CICC, Haitong Securities and Harvest Fund with smart research, sentiment monitoring and NLP infrastructure services, while operating consumer-facing apps and mini-programs like Ximei, Chuangtou Pai, Prospectus, and Research Report Search that had accumulated millions of users .

The company raised approximately $60 million total within its first 18 months, including a $33 million Series A in March 2019 led by PAC with participation from CreditEase New Finance Industry Investment Fund and returning investor Gaorong Ventures, which had also led its angel round . Gaorong, in its own materials, grouped Tigerobo among its bets on NLP alongside Yitu Technology, Tiangong Intelligence and Zhuiyi Technology . In 2019, Tigerobo also released "Tigerobo Personal Assistant," billed as the industry's first intelligent Q&A robot focused on financial information data, and won an innovation certificate at the World AI Conference .