Yeyi Yuan
贠烨祎
Yeyi Yuan is a co-founder and core executive at MiniMax, the Chinese large-language-model startup. She joined forces with Junjie Yan—her former colleague at SenseTime—to launch the company, and as of early 2026 she handles external fundraising, management, and public-facing activities while Yan stays focused on technology . Yunqi Capital's Chen Yu, who met Yuan in 2018-2019 when she was first exploring entrepreneurship, became MiniMax's earliest investor through that connection . In elsewhere's framing, Yuan belongs to a recognizable archetype: the operational and capital-facing co-founder paired with a technical CEO, comparable to Zhang Yutong at Kimi or Yi Weishu at Vivix .
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Coverage
The Other Half of AGI
"She is everywhere."
MiniMax Goes Public: The $1.5 Billion Fundraising Blitz, 15 Reasons Investors Bet on It, and How Long Each One Lasts
One Year in AI, Five Years on Earth
Merge the "Six Little Tigers" to build China AGI.
"Merge the Six Little Tigers"
Yunqi Capital's Chen Yu: How He Became the Earliest Investor in MiniMax | "Attent!on" Crossover with "Jun Zhang's Business Talks"
Let's Talk About the Present and Future of LLM Venture Capital
Vol.04 Yunqi Capital's Chen Yu: First to Bet on MiniMax, Behind the Scenes of LLM Investing | Crossover with *Zhang Xiaojun Jùn | Business Talk*
China's LLM Funding War: The Quick Death of Romance
Do the investors regret it?
