「liko.ai」完成首轮融资，打造以 AI Home Center 为核心的智能家居解决方案
Recently, liko.ai announced the completion of its first - round financing. The investment was jointly made by multiple industrial 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 served as the incubator and exclusive financial advisor. The funds from this round of financing will be used for the edge - side vision - language model, AI - native hardware, and research and development of multi - modal general home terminals.
liko.ai is committed to creating a new - generation home computing hub and smart home solutions. Through the AI Home Center equipped with NPU and edge - side models and AI - native cameras, it aims to reshape traditional home vision solutions and IoT experiences, becoming an AI butler capable of understanding, protecting, and empathizing with users and building a new smart home ecosystem in the era of large models.
Home: The Key Battlefield for Edge - side AI, with Vision as the New Entry Point
Driven by the cost reduction of high - computing - power chips and the miniaturization of large models, the edge - side AI hardware market is booming. Currently, most home smart devices have isolated functions and fragmented experiences. Various products such as AI photo frames and smart calendar machines have emerged in the market. liko.ai has taken a different approach, choosing vision as the breakthrough point and entering this huge market through innovative smart cameras.
In European and American families, personal and property safety are the most fundamental needs, and smart cameras are irreplaceable. This product category also has advantages such as 24/7 online operation, large - scale multi - modal data accumulation, strong active interaction ability, wide scene coverage, and high scalability. Currently, the global market size of smart cameras exceeds $10 billion. However, the market players are scattered, the products are highly homogeneous, and the AI capabilities are weak. This provides a new opportunity for late - comers to take the lead and reshape the market landscape for AI - native players.
From "Recognition" to "Understanding": Defining an AI Camera with Cognitive Ability
Currently, home vision solutions are highly homogeneous, and most AI capabilities are limited to object detection and event recognition, which is essentially "recording and recognition". liko.ai has chosen an innovative and challenging product path - understanding, reasoning, and making decisions for complex home scenarios at the edge side.
The liko.ai team proposed "giving the camera consciousness for the first time". Through the implementation of the edge - side vision - language model, the AI - native camera can not only detect abnormal scenarios but also understand user intentions, continuously learn the behavior patterns of family members and pets, and independently record the highlights of life, achieving a complete closed - loop of "vision + language + action". At the same time, the liko.ai team attaches great importance to user privacy. The model is deployed on the edge side, which eliminates the risk of user data leakage in the cloud and solves the problem of high cloud storage and subscription fees. liko.ai hopes to quickly penetrate the home scenario through consumer - grade hardware, and then build long - term product barriers and commercial value through software, model ecosystem, and data flywheel.
Led by the Former Chairman of Meituan's Hardware Committee, a Team with Both Overseas Expansion and Full - chain Capabilities
The founder of liko.ai, Ryan Li, graduated from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University. He has 20 years of experience in the smart hardware industry. He has served as the global CEO of Lexar, the chairman of Meituan's Hardware Committee, a hardware partner at 360, and the R & D director at TP - Link. He has full - chain capabilities as both the technical and business leader in creating hit products from scratch. The well - structured team he leads consists of members from major software and hardware companies such as Meta, ByteDance, Meituan, Shangtang, and TP - link. The core members have collaborated for over 15 years.
In November 2025, Ryan Li led the team to officially establish liko.ai. When talking about the motivation for starting the business, he said, "The technological revolution has brought great opportunities and a new wave for AI hardware. As a veteran in the smart hardware industry for 20 years, I feel the 'call of the times'. This team, which combines technical strength and idealism, believes that 'the process is the reward'." Ryan believes that the ultimate competitiveness of liko.ai lies in its culture and values: human nature is inherently good and equality and self - motivation. The company is committed to creating an inclusive and trusting environment to stimulate everyone's maximum potential.
In the view of liko.ai, AI hardware is not only an upgrade of product form but also a structural change regarding 'where computing occurs and how intelligence can be trusted'. Edge - side AI brings intelligence closer to life for the first time: it can be online for a long time, continuously learn, and silently protect users without disturbing or peeping.
Zhang Jiaxin, a partner at Shangtang Guoxiang Capital, said: "The globalization opportunity is irresistible. Under the new technological wave, Chinese technology companies are also expected to become key players in defining new hardware standards. The underlying logic supporting this round of AI new hardware innovation is that the wave of large AI models will surely give rise to many AI hardware products starting from 'native AI'. The core team of liko.ai has solid strength and has experienced tough battles, demonstrating unique competitiveness in aspects such as software - hardware integration, rapid verification, cost control, and global supply. 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 hardware."
Tang Ruide, a partner at Orient Fortune Capital, said: "In the era of rapid development of AI technology, home smart terminals are moving from the 'connection era' to the 'perception and decision - making era', with broad market space. The company has chosen to enter the market through the high - frequency visual interaction scenario of smart cameras, accurately targeting the market for home security needs, and achieving an AI upgrade of products from passive recording to active perception and early warning. This is also a core part of building a home AI hub in the future. The liko.ai team members have long - term experience as corporate executives and are battle - tested. They have comprehensive technical insights and industrial resources, as well as excellent market operation and organizational management capabilities. The core quality of perfectly combining cutting - edge AI technology with commercial implementation capabilities is the core support for AI hardware startups to break through key bottlenecks such as product implementation and large - scale expansion. We believe that they can lead the company to leap from being a champion in a niche market to a leader in home smart terminals."
Zhu Yong, a partner at iFlytek Venture Capital, said: "iFlytek Venture Capital invested in liko.ai mainly because of the huge potential of the Smart Home AI market and the founder team's excellent To C product genes and operation capabilities. We believe that introducing an edge - side model into cameras will surely bring about a strong chemical reaction, bringing a revolutionary experience to users and detonating the entire market."
Yu Yang, the managing director of Hongtai Fund, said: "We are optimistic about the future growth space of edge - side AI applications. The key lies in how to collect consumers' offline context more efficiently through better product forms. As one of the most important scenarios for consumers' daily activities, the home has the opportunity to become a traffic entrance in the AI era. Through AI hardware with both visual and auditory capabilities, enterprises can continuously obtain high - density context in a non - intrusive way without users' active initiation and get accurate reward signals on the client side for iteration. The founding team has a background covering the entire smart hardware industry chain and has achieved product definition and commercial results across multiple product categories. We believe that liko.ai can be based in Shenzhen and face the world, creating products that change the world."
Zhengxuan Investment said: "Ryan is a founder we respect and admire very much. He has accumulated profound technical, product, and management experience in the hardware field and also has a global perspective. He is a rare all - around talent. In the wave of AI technology and the complex and changeable world situation, the market for home - use smart cameras is bound to experience a new round of significant growth. Zhengxuan is optimistic that under Ryan's leadership, the company can seize the opportunity, develop rapidly, and become a globally leading AI hardware enterprise."
Mianbi Intelligence said: "We are optimistic about the implementation of edge - side AI in the home scenario and the full - stack strength of Ryan's team in the smart hardware field. We believe that Ryan's team can perfectly integrate the most advanced edge - side AI technology into products and achieve commercial success."
Huang Xinxin, the person in charge of the 3i incubation business at Light Source Capital, said: "Ryan's team has created hit products that have entered millions of households in different eras. In the new wave of AI, the team hopes to place multi - modal AI smart butlers in every user's home, becoming the 'outpost' for general AI intelligence to enter the home. Video is an important way to accumulate data in daily family life. It is expected that cameras can serve as a closed - loop port for data input and output. We are firmly optimistic about the future edge - cloud collaborative ecosystem and firmly believe that the liko.ai team can promote the wide application of AI to consumers with its comprehensive business capabilities."