ZhiZi XinYuan
智子芯元
ZhiZi XinYuan (智子芯元) is a Chinese AI startup founded in 2025, working in the "AI for Computing" direction — its flagship product is KernelCAT, an automated computing-acceleration platform described by ZhenFund as "a locally running AI Agent" . ZhenFund backed the company as its first-round investor from the very beginning in 2025 , and in June 2026 the company closed an angel+ round of tens of millions of RMB, led by SummitView Capital (鼎峰科创), Innoangel Fund, and Shoucheng Capital, with existing shareholder Cowin Capital over-subscribing . That round is earmarked for continued KernelCAT R&D, adaptation to domestic compute ecosystems, and team expansion . Most recently, per ZhenFund, the company showcased KernelCAT at the 2026 China International Big Data Expo .
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