Zhigang Chen
陈志刚
Zhigang Chen is a veteran of internet healthcare and pharma R&D, currently the founder and CEO of HeTan Intelligence (C12.ai), a startup building embodied-intelligence robots for pharmaceutical research labs . The company raised 50 million yuan in early 2026 .
Before founding HeTan, Chen held senior digital roles across China's major healthcare and tech platforms: he was the first chief digital officer at WuXi AppTec, chief architect and head of algorithms and modeling at Alibaba Health, and founder of Tencent's medical big-data lab . His career arc tracks the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and life sciences — a profile that positions him as one of the sector's "industry veterans" now applying robotics to drug discovery .
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The "OpenAI Moment" for Pharma Labs: HeTan AI Raises 50 Million Yuan, Robot Scientists Step Onto the Lab Bench
The story of robot scientists has only just begun.
HETAN Intelligence Closes 50 Million Yuan Funding Round, as Robots Make Real Inroads into Labs
Veteran founders with backgrounds at Alibaba, Tencent, and WuXi AppTec.
Yunqi Capital Attent!on Podcast | Founders Up and Down the Supply Chain: From Embodiment to Intelligence, How Is AI "Awakening" Robots?
Let's Talk About the Messy Reality of Deployment and Application Bottlenecks
Embodied Intelligence + Drug Discovery = ? C12.ai Unveils Industry's First Pharmaceutical R&D Intelligent Robot | Yunqi Capital
Accelerating Drug Discovery and Development
Vol.05 Has AI "Woken Up" the Robots? A Look at the Many Applications and Bottlenecks of Embodied Intelligence
Large Models+: What New Entry Points, Changes, and Possibilities Lie Ahead? | Yunqi Capital · Riding the AGI+ Wave
Greater Bay Area AGI+ Founders, Assemble!
Yunqi Capital · Riding the AGI Wave | 3 Weeks, 3 Cities: We Spoke with 150+ Founders About New Variables in the AGI Era
Embracing the AGI+ Era
Win-Win Cooperation, Empowering Innovation, Building a Sci-Tech Ecosystem Together | Zhangjiang Group × Yunqi Capital
Actively Building a Sci-Tech Innovation Ecosystem
