Yoolee AI
元理智能
Yoolee AI (元理智能) is an enterprise AI agent company founded in 2025 by Zhang Fan, previously COO of Zhipu AI . The company raised an $8 million seed round led by BlueRun Ventures, with participation from Guangyuan Venture Fund .
Its core approach centers on reinforcement learning for business ("RL for Business") to build self-evolving enterprise agents, moving beyond conventional "customization + supervised fine-tuning" workflows that are costly to deploy and tightly coupled to specific models . BlueRun Ventures, per its own investment thesis, sees Yoolee's architecture of centralized training with distributed deployment as enabling agents to self-optimize within each enterprise's unique data environment .
Zhang Fan is a serial entrepreneur in AI who studied artificial intelligence in France, worked at Sogou and Tencent on voice products, founded travel startup Miaoji, served as CTO at Dasouche, and in 2022 founded Yuanyin Intelligence (later acquired by Zhipu AI) before joining Zhipu as COO in 2023 and departing in June 2025 to start Yoolee . He has described the current moment of AI entrepreneurship as inducing a kind of "vertigo" , and suggested that AI-era companies may remain intentionally small while still leveraging traditional organizational management methods where effective .
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Jui Chan of BlueRun Ventures in Conversation with Wang Zhongyuan of BAAI, Wang He of Galaxy Universal, and Li Dahai of ModelBest: Long-Term Value and the Next Curve in the Large Model Era
From "Moats" to "Scaling's New Curve" in the Age of Foundation Models
BlueRun Ventures Closes New Dual-Currency Fund at RMB 3.9 Billion
The louder the noise, the cooler the head.
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The key to AI Native isn't upgrading your tools — it's rewriting your organization.
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The Posture of the "Number One" and the "Silent Majority"
The AI Landscape in 2026: How OpenClaw Is Reshaping AI Entrepreneurship — New Shifts in Models and Applications | BlueRun Ventures AI Annual Outlook
The AI industry has never lacked for new stories.
BlueRun Ventures' AI Annual Outlook: Survival, Evolution, and Narrative for China's AI Founders | Booming Talk
"Chinese people can now define a narrative of their own in AI too."
In the AI Era, There Are Only Builders — No Seats on the Sidelines | Quarterly
Let's go.
What Did He See? | A Conversation with Zhang Fan: Former Zhipu AI COO, Founder/CEO of Yuanli Intelligence — Why Is He Convinced AI's Opportunity Lies in ToB?
BlueRun Ventures in Conversation with Moonshot AI, Qianshou Technology, Yuanli Intelligence, and Daqian Technology — AI Pragmatists: The China Path from Technology to Value
From Technology to Value: The Chinese Path
Dawn Breaks, Toward the Light | BlueRun Ventures 2025 Annual Fund Partners Meeting
Welcoming the Dawn of Technology
BlueRun Ventures Leads $8 Million Seed Round in Yuanli Intelligence | BlueRun Portfolio
The Critical Leap for Enterprise AI: From "Knowledge Reuse" to "Capability Growth"
