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How Europe's Fastest-Growing AI Startup Landed $120 Million in Revenue in 90 Days | Yunqi Tech π

How Europe's Fastest-Growing AI Startup Landed $120 Million in Revenue in 90 Days | Yunqi Tech π

When will the fabled "breakout year for AI applications" actually arrive? There's no consensus yet. But the critical question of commercialization is already being explored and tested across AI applications in several verticals — customer service, law, programming, and beyond.

Fifteen Years Building a Startup, He's Now Deploying Robots Worldwide | Yunqi Capital Doers

Fifteen Years Building a Startup, He's Now Deploying Robots Worldwide | Yunqi Capital Doers

From "robot waiters" in restaurants to "robot cleaners" in hotels, service robots have become increasingly common in our daily lives. Yunqi Capital portfolio company *Keenon Robotics* is a leading enterprise in embodied AI service robots. While deeply penetrating the Chinese market, Keenon has been actively expanding overseas since 2020, with its global operations now covering 600+ cities and regions worldwide.

Yunqi Capital Portfolio Company Zhaogang Group Successfully Lists on Hong Kong Stock Exchange | Yunqi Capital

Yunqi Capital Portfolio Company Zhaogang Group Successfully Lists on Hong Kong Stock Exchange | Yunqi Capital

On March 10, **Zhaogang Group**, a Yunqi Capital portfolio company and operator of China's largest steel e-commerce platform, officially began trading on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under **ticker symbol 06676**, marking Hong Kong's second-ever De-SPAC transaction.

Yunqi Capital Joins "Intelligent Square" in Hundreds-of-Millions-Yuan Pre-A+ Round to Advance End-to-End VLA Embodied Robot Commercialization | Yunqi Capital

Yunqi Capital Joins "Intelligent Square" in Hundreds-of-Millions-Yuan Pre-A+ Round to Advance End-to-End VLA Embodied Robot Commercialization | Yunqi Capital

Today, embodied intelligence startup **"Zhi Square" (智平方)** announced the completion of a Pre-A+ round worth hundreds of millions of RMB, with **Yunqi Capital participating in the investment.** This round of funding will primarily accelerate the continued iteration of its end-to-end VLA model and the scaled commercial deployment of embodied intelligence robots.

Podcasts

Vol.17 48-Hour Xiaohongshu Hackathon Hit: How an AI-Native Product That Broke the "Retention Curse" Was Built --- Two weekends ago, I participated in a 48-hour hackathon hosted by Xiaohongshu. Our team of four built an AI-native product from scratch — no code, no design background between us — and ended up winning the "Most Popular" award. The product? A voice diary app called **"Echo"** that uses AI to turn fragmented daily moments into serialized, episodic "life podcasts." Think *This American Life*, but starring you. What surprised me wasn't that we won. It was that people kept using it *after* the demo. Here's the dirty secret of AI hackathons: most projects die the moment judges stop clapping. The "retention curse" is real — users try your GPT wrapper once, say "neat," and never return. We broke that pattern. Our daily active user rate among beta testers hit 34% in week one, which for a hackathon product is basically unheard of. How? Three deliberate choices we made against hackathon orthodoxy. **First, we refused to build a chatbot.** The default AI product in 2024 is still "talk to a large language model." We explicitly rejected this. Chat interfaces create *performance anxiety* — users feel pressure to ask the "right
Vol.17 48-Hour Xiaohongshu Hackathon Hit: How an AI-Native Product That Broke the "Retention Curse" Was Built

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Two weekends ago, I participated in a 48-hour hackathon hosted by Xiaohongshu. Our team of four built an AI-native product from scratch — no code, no design background between us — and ended up winning the "Most Popular" award.

The product? A voice diary app called **"Echo"** that uses AI to turn fragmented daily moments into serialized, episodic "life podcasts." Think *This American Life*, but starring you.

What surprised me wasn't that we won. It was that people kept using it *after* the demo.

Here's the dirty secret of AI hackathons: most projects die the moment judges stop clapping. The "retention curse" is real — users try your GPT wrapper once, say "neat," and never return. We broke that pattern. Our daily active user rate among beta testers hit 34% in week one, which for a hackathon product is basically unheard of.

How? Three deliberate choices we made against hackathon orthodoxy.

**First, we refused to build a chatbot.**

The default AI product in 2024 is still "talk to a large language model." We explicitly rejected this. Chat interfaces create *performance anxiety* — users feel pressure to ask the "right

Vol.17 48-Hour Xiaohongshu Hackathon Hit: How an AI-Native Product That Broke the "Retention Curse" Was Built --- Two weekends ago, I participated in a 48-hour hackathon hosted by Xiaohongshu. Our team of four built an AI-native product from scratch — no code, no design background between us — and ended up winning the "Most Popular" award. The product? A voice diary app called **"Echo"** that uses AI to turn fragmented daily moments into serialized, episodic "life podcasts." Think *This American Life*, but starring you. What surprised me wasn't that we won. It was that people kept using it *after* the demo. Here's the dirty secret of AI hackathons: most projects die the moment judges stop clapping. The "retention curse" is real — users try your GPT wrapper once, say "neat," and never return. We broke that pattern. Our daily active user rate among beta testers hit 34% in week one, which for a hackathon product is basically unheard of. How? Three deliberate choices we made against hackathon orthodoxy. **First, we refused to build a chatbot.** The default AI product in 2024 is still "talk to a large language model." We explicitly rejected this. Chat interfaces create *performance anxiety* — users feel pressure to ask the "right