Former Mihoyo executives start a business, and AI-native growth company Agent LeapMind Growth receives a lead investment from CMC Capital
April 29, 2026, Shanghai - AI-native growth agent LeapMind Growth announced today that it has completed its Angel + round of financing, led by CMC Capital. The funds from this round of financing will be mainly used for the R & D and iteration of the core product GrowthGPT, the expansion of the R & D team, and the early market development.
LeapMind Growth was founded in April 2025 by Ma Ruping (Rubin), the former head of global user growth at Mihoyo and the former head of the growth strategy center at Kuaishou. He also previously led user growth at TikTok and has cumulatively led user growth projects with a scale of over $5 billion. The core members of the company all come from companies such as ByteDance, Mihoyo, Kuaishou, and Meituan. The core team has a combination of capabilities in large - scale growth management, AI system engineering, and global distribution.
The company's core product is an AI - native self - iterating growth agent - GrowthGPT, which aims to take over the entire growth execution process with an AI agent: users only need to set goals and boundaries, and GrowthGPT can complete the subsequent processes of strategy formulation, implementation, and continuous optimization.
GrowthGPT covers the entire growth execution process: from cross - platform data diagnosis to identify problems, to creative insights to drive content iteration, and then to automatically issue execution instructions and optimize the results. The system has a built - in budget safety protection mechanism to effectively prevent the risk of overspending; at the same time, it precipitates business context through growth memory, achieving the effect of becoming more and more in line with the enterprise's business needs with use.
GrowthGPT end - to - end growth closed - loop: from market insight to real - time optimization
GrowthGPT has achieved remarkable results in scenarios such as cross - border expansion, DTC brands, and global game distribution: in the cold - start advertising in some global markets, GrowthGPT takes over the entire advertising execution process, and the customer acquisition cost is 70% lower than the target. Multiple rounds of actual combat verification show that GrowthGPT can systematically achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement in complex and changeable growth scenarios, upgrading growth from a "craftsmanship" relying on individual experience to a scalable and replicable systematic ability.
CMC Capital has long been deeply involved in the culture, media, and consumer industries, accumulating marketing experience and industry judgment across platforms and content forms. CMC Capital has observed that the marketing growth industry is at the intersection of efficiency upgrading and interaction paradigm change: on the one hand, the AI - driven automated advertising and creative generation capabilities are systematically replacing traditional manual operations, fundamentally changing the organizational mode and efficiency boundaries of growth teams; on the other hand, generative AI and conversational interaction are giving rise to new traffic entrances and user reach methods, opening up structural opportunities for the next - generation growth infrastructure. The founding team of LeapMind Growth has complete practical experience in operating tens of billions of advertising funds from scratch and building a full - link user growth and advertising system. They deeply integrate the industry know - how from the client's perspective into the product architecture, rather than simply adding AI as a functional plug - in to traditional tools. CMC Capital believes that this team has the scarce ability to define the new - generation growth agent during the industry paradigm shift.
Ma Ruping, the founder and CEO of LeapMind Growth said: "I have managed budgets of over $5 billion as a client for eight years. The deepest feeling I have is that more than 80% of growth work actually has clear rules and can be executed by an agent - it's just that there were no suitable tools in the past, so we had to rely on manpower. The remaining 20% is the core work that really requires human judgment, such as strategy selection for new markets, brand tone control, and handling of sudden crises. What GrowthGPT aims to do is to systematize this 80% of repetitive work, freeing people from cumbersome execution and allowing them to focus on the remaining 20% of core decision - making."
GrowthGPT Autopilot mode: automatically scan advertising accounts, evaluate indicators, and execute optimization decisions
This investment was made by the CMC AI Creative Fund, which focuses on the application and innovation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in the creative industry. This investment is also an important strategic move for CMC Capital to implement its "software + hardware + full - stage" layout in the AI field. Currently, the AI technology stack is still rapidly iterating, and the product forms and business models are not yet fully stable. The effectiveness of the traditional financing stage classification method is decreasing. CMC Capital not only focuses on growth - stage enterprises in the AI track but also firmly opens up capital and industrial resources to early - stage teams with technological disruptive power, aiming to discover and accompany excellent teams that can leverage the inflection point of industrial efficiency through technological innovation.