liko.ai hat die erste Runde Finanzierung abgeschlossen und entwickelt eine intelligente Heimautomatisierungslösung mit dem AI Home Center als Kern.
Recently, liko.ai has completed its first round of financing. The investments come from several industry and financial investment institutions such as Shangtang Guoxiang Capital, Orient Fortune Capital, iFlytek Venture Capital, Hongtai Fund, Zhengxuan Investment, and Mianbi Intelligence. Light Source Capital serves as the incubator and exclusive financial advisor. The funds from this financing round will be used for the development of edge-based visual language models, AI-native hardware, and the research and development of multimodal universal home devices.
liko.ai is committed to creating a new generation of home computing centers and smart home solutions. Through the AI Home Center and AI-native cameras equipped with NPUs and edge models, it will reshape traditional home visual solutions and the IoT experience. liko.ai aims to become an AI butler that understands, protects, and connects with users and build a new smart home ecosystem in the era of large models.
The Home: The Key Battleground for Edge AI, and the Visual Access Opens New Paths
Driven by the cost reduction of high-performance chips and the miniaturization of large models, the edge AI hardware market is on the verge of a breakout. Most home devices currently have isolated functions and offer a fragmented experience. There are various products on the market, such as AI photo frames and smart calendar devices. liko.ai has chosen a different approach and decided to use the visual access as a breakthrough point and tap into this huge market through innovative smart cameras.
In European and American households, the safety of people and property is the fundamental need. Smart cameras play an irreplaceable role here. This product category also has advantages such as 7*24-hour online availability, the accumulation of massive multimodal data, strong active interaction capabilities, wide scenario coverage, and high extensibility. The global smart camera market currently has a volume of more than ten billion US dollars. However, the market players are scattered, the products are homogeneous, and the AI capabilities are weak. This provides AI-native players with the opportunity to be late but ahead and reshape the market structure.
From "Recognizing" to "Understanding": Defining an AI Camera with Cognitive Abilities
Current home visual solutions are highly homogenized. The AI capabilities mostly remain at the level of target recognition and event recognition, which is essentially still "recording and recognition". liko.ai has chosen an innovative and challenging product path - understanding, inferring, and making decisions for complex home scenarios at the edge level.
The liko.ai team has proposed the concept of "First Consciousness for Cameras". Through the implementation of edge-based visual language models, AI-native cameras can not only recognize abnormal scenarios but also understand users' intentions, continuously learn the behavior patterns of family members and pets, and autonomously record the highlights of life. Thus, a complete cycle of "Visual + Language + Action" is achieved. At the same time, the liko.ai team attaches great importance to users' privacy. The models are deployed at the edge level, which eliminates the risk of data leakage in the cloud and solves the problem of high cloud storage and subscription costs. liko.ai hopes to quickly penetrate into home scenarios through consumer-oriented hardware and then build long-term product barriers and commercial value through software and model ecosystems and data flows.
The Former Chairman of Meituan's Hardware Committee Leads the Team with Both International Expansion and Comprehensive Capabilities
The founder of liko.ai, Ryan Li, studied at the School of Computer Science at Tsinghua University and has 20 years of experience in the intelligent hardware industry. He was once the global CEO of Lexar, the chairman of Meituan's Hardware Committee, a partner in the hardware department of 360, and the head of R & D at TP-Link. He has both the technical and business capabilities to build successful products from the ground up. The team he leads consists of members from large software and hardware companies such as Meta, ByteDance, Meituan, Shangtang, and TP-Link. The core members of the team have been working together for more than 15 years.
In November 2025, Ryan Li officially founded liko.ai with his team. Regarding the reason for founding, he said, "The technological revolution has brought huge opportunities and trends for AI hardware. As an industry veteran with 20 years of experience in intelligent hardware, I feel that the time is calling me. This team, composed of technical experts and idealists, believes that 'the process is already the reward'." Ryan believes that the ultimate competitiveness of liko.ai lies in its corporate culture and values: People are inherently good and are equal and self - responsible. The company strives to create an inclusive and trustworthy environment to maximize the potential of each person.
In the view of liko.ai, AI hardware is not only an upgrade of the product form but also a structural change in where the calculations take place and how artificial intelligence is made trustworthy. Edge AI brings artificial intelligence really close to daily life for the first time: without disturbing or monitoring users, it can be permanently online, continuously learn, and silently protect.
Zhang Jiaxin, a partner at Shangtang Guoxiang Capital, said: "Global opportunities are irresistible. Under the wave of new technologies, Chinese technology companies have the opportunity to define new standards for hardware. The basis for innovation in new AI hardware is that the wave of large AI models will trigger numerous AI hardware products based on 'native AI'. The core team of liko.ai has strong capabilities and has already tackled difficult tasks. This shows its unique competitiveness in software - hardware integration, rapid validation, cost control, and global delivery. We believe in the company's rapid iteration ability, not only in R & D but also in defining, leading, and outputting new standards for smart home devices."
Tang Ruide, a partner at Orient Fortune Capital, said: "In the era of the rapid growth of AI technology, the home intelligent terminal is transitioning from the 'connection era' to the 'perception and decision - making era'. This offers broad market potential. The company has decided to enter the home security market through the smart camera, a scenario with high visual interaction, and improve the product from passive recording to active perception and warning. This is also a key step for the future creation of a home AI center. The liko.ai team has long - term experience in corporate management and has proven itself in the market. It has comprehensive technical insights, industry resources, and excellent market - leading and organizational capabilities. The core quality that perfectly combines cutting - edge AI technology with commercial implementation ability is the basis for overcoming key thresholds such as product implementation and scaling in AI hardware entrepreneurship. We believe that it can lead the company from a niche winner to a leader in the field of home intelligent terminals."
Zhu Yong, a partner at iFlytek Venture Capital, said: "iFlytek Venture Capital has invested in liko.ai because we appreciate the vast field of smart home AI and the extreme ToC product gene and operational ability of the founding team. We believe that introducing edge models into the camera will trigger a strong chemical reaction, offer a revolutionary experience for users, and ignite the entire market."
Yu Yang, the general manager of Hongtai Fund, said: "We are optimistic about the future growth potential of edge AI applications. The key lies in how to more efficiently collect offline consumer contexts. The home is one of the most important places for consumers and offers the possibility to serve as an entry point for traffic in the AI era. Companies can continuously collect high - density contexts unobtrusively through AI hardware with visual and auditory capabilities without users having to take active actions and obtain precise reward signals on the client side to improve the models. The founding team has experience in the entire value chain of intelligent hardware and has defined products and achieved commercial results in different product categories. We believe that liko.ai can expand globally from Shenzhen and produce world - changing products."
Zhengxuan Investment said: "Ryan is an entrepreneur we highly respect and appreciate. He has extensive technical, product - related, and management - related experience in the hardware industry and a global perspective. He is a rare all - rounder. In the wave of AI technology and in the face of unpredictable world politics, the smart home camera market will surely have a new growth experience. Zhengxuan Investment is confident that the company can seize the opportunities and grow rapidly under Ryan's leadership to become a world - leading AI hardware company."
Mianbi Intelligence said: "We are optimistic about the implementation of edge AI in home scenarios and the comprehensive capabilities of the Ryan team in the intelligent hardware industry. We believe that the Ryan team can perfectly integrate leading edge AI technologies into products and achieve commercial success."
Huang Xinxin, the head of the 3i incubation department at Light Source Capital, said: "The Ryan team has created successful products in different eras that have found their way into millions of households. In the new wave of AI, the team wants to bring a multimodal AI butler into every user's home and act as the 'advance post' for the entry of general AI into homes. Videos are an important way to collect household daily - life data. It is possible that the camera, as a carrier, represents a closed - loop for data input and output. We are firmly convinced that the future ecosystem of edge - cloud cooperation is promising and that the liko.ai team, with its comprehensive commercial capabilities, can promote the wide application of AI in the consumer industry."