Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd. invested in a post-90s entrepreneur.

Going back six months ago, Shenzhen Capital Group quietly led the investment in a Shenzhen-based team.

Shiyuan Technology's core team members come from well-known universities and enterprises such as the University of Oxford, Nanyang Technological University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Google, Amazon, and Huawei. Among them, the co-founder and CTO is Robin Ru, a doctor from the University of Oxford and a Huawei "Genius Youth" in 2022.

In November, at the roadshow site on Xili Lake Road in Nanshan, Shenzhen, the investment community met Wang Jue, the co-founder and COO of Shiyuan Technology. She revealed the financing situation. Shiyuan Technology has secured its second round of financing led by Shenzhen Capital Group. To date, it has gathered a group of investors including Shenzhen Capital Group, QingSong Fund, Songhe Capital, and Yunbai Capital. Currently, the team has more than 100 members.

It is worth mentioning that this roadshow event jointly organized by the "X-Day" Xili Lake Roadshow Club and the "3rd Anniversary of Shenzhen Venture Capital Day: The AI Era" gathered a group of top-notch technical experts on site. "Top universities, top classes, top competitions, and industry experts" are the real portrait of the current AI entrepreneurship wave.

A Huawei "Genius Youth", a Post - 90s Entrepreneur in Shenzhen

"Extremely smart, extremely hard - working, and extremely responsible." Wang Jue shared her impression of Robin Ru with the investment community.

From Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Robin Ru studied at Singapore's Raffles Institution with a full scholarship. In 2013, he was admitted to the University of Oxford and completed his undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in a continuous program. From the engineering, economics, and management major during his undergraduate years to AI - related majors for his master's and doctorate, he almost always ranked first in his major.

After graduation, Robin Ru was fully employed as a Huawei "Genius Youth" in 2022. He has also worked at Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab, Google's most mysterious Google X, and served as the director of the Intelligent Industrial Vision R & D Center at the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen.

However, he finally chose to start his own business. At that time, upon the invitation of a friend, Robin Ru joined the startup company - Shiyuan Technology. This is a company focusing on empowering the industrial manufacturing field with AI technology. Ji Cong, the founder and CEO, was the 8th employee of SenseTime and was responsible for SenseTime's first profitable product.

At this on - site roadshow, Wang Jue, the operation and financing person - in - charge of Shiyuan Technology and the only female on site, also came from SenseTime.

"We believe that it's difficult for AI companies to make money because the financing providers take the profits first." Wang Jue introduced that focusing on the industrial field with huge AI demand, the team mainly targets semiconductor and general semiconductor inspection and production equipment and enters the industrial quality inspection track.

Less than half a year after its establishment, Shiyuan Technology received its first round of financing. Wang Jue revealed to the investment community that most of the angel - round financing came from Shenzhen, including Songhe Investment, QingSong Fund, Mizuho Lihe Fund, and Yunbai Capital. Previously, the team had not officially opened financing channels and mostly had contacts among friends.

Then Shenzhen Capital Group came in. In June this year, Shiyuan Technology quietly secured Series A financing from Shenzhen Capital Group, Songhe Investment, Xuhui Science and Technology Innovation Investment, and Yunbai Capital. Since then, Shiyuan Technology has gradually come into the sight of investors.

The AI Entrepreneurship Field is Full of Experts

If you take a look at the current AI founders, you'll find that this track has gathered an unprecedented number of industry experts.

From Yang Zhilin, the founder of Darkside of the Moon, to Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, and the continuous emergence of large - model and hardware entrepreneurs, they either have experiences in top universities and research institutions or are leaders in the industry.

"Top universities, top classes, top competitions, and industry experts" have gathered here in a short period. Just like at this AI roadshow site, it's full of hidden talents -

90 - afters Li Jiaxiang led a team of postgraduate and doctoral students into the AI trendy toys field, giving birth to Evolution Intelligence. Su Wen, the founder of Kouding Intelligence, led a post - 90s team into the AI track.

It is understood that this roadshow is a special session for AI innovation talents of the "X - Day" Xili Lake Roadshow Club and is also part of the "3rd Anniversary of Shenzhen Venture Capital Day: The AI Era" series of activities. Since its launch in March this year, this roadshow project has successfully held 10 sessions, promoting more than 2,500 institutional connections and helping 17 enterprises obtain a total of more than 530 million yuan in equity financing.

This is a microcosm of the current AI entrepreneurship wave.

Most of the founders who have grown up with the AI wave have resumes from famous universities and well - known enterprises. They are younger, more confident, and have greater ambitions. In the hands of the new generation of AI entrepreneurs, core technologies are no longer imitations but original creations.

In conversations with many AI entrepreneurs, the investment community often hears their bold statements -

"We are willing to enter a niche field and do things that others are reluctant to do."

"In market competition, being mediocre is the original sin."

"We hope to ride on this new - generation wave."

As Lin Wenbin, a partner of Guoke Jiahe, sighed on site, "The adaptability of these AI entrepreneurs to industrial iteration and their entrepreneurial enthusiasm regardless of gains and losses are often astonishing." Such entrepreneurs are no longer passive participants in the mainstream narrative but people who want to "change the world."

This article is from the WeChat official account "Investment Community" (ID: pedaily2012). The author is Yang Wenjing, and it is published by 36Kr with permission.