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AI Venture Meetup
A closed-door exchange connecting AI founders, investors and operators worldwide — one guest per session, in depth.
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AI Venture Meetup No. 024 · Frontier League
SVTR Frontier League | AI for Science: From Models to Discovery
Guest: Scientists · founders · corporate R&D · investors (lineup to be announced) · 2026-09-19 · 2F, Building T1, Douyin HQ, 678 Minfu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai · CITIC Bookstore · Xinrui Lab
Where AI meets scientific research, prediction is the most crowded stage and validation the emptiest. The first SVTR Frontier League focuses on AI for Science, bringing scientists, founders, corporate R&D leaders and investors together on one question: between a model producing candidates and those candidates being validated at the bench, who does that step, who pays for it, and how do the results flow back into the model? Covering four areas: life sciences, materials and chemistry, autonomous labs, and research agents.
AI Venture Meetup No. 022 · Startup Pitch
From Payments to Agentic Commerce: Where AI Agents Actually Close a Transaction
Guest: Max So (Co-founder & CEO, Bravo Technology) · 2026-09-12 · Online closed-door session
Bravo is turning payments, rewards and a real merchant network into infrastructure an AI agent can actually act in. Having proven the model in Vancouver, the company is now relocating its headquarters to San Francisco. This SVTR online session looks at where agentic commerce actually lands in local consumer life: when an agent moves from "can hold a conversation" to "can complete a transaction," what is missing is rarely model capability — it is the merchant network, the transaction rails and the settlement layer.
AI Venture Meetup No. 021 · Frontier League
AI + Robotics Startup Pitch
Guest: · 2026-08-09 · San Mateo County Event Center, California
SVTR AI Venture Meetup robotics-track Startup Pitch: ten selected teams pitch live with investor feedback, followed by a private 1:1 matching session.
AI Venture Meetup No. 020 · Frontier League
AI Data Center Optics Networking
Guest: Founders with PhDs from leading overseas universities · 2026-08-06 · Shanghai · Student Union House, 2F, Building 9, Pudong International Talent Hub
The next race in AI compute is optical interconnect. On August 6, SVTR (Silicon Valley Technology Review) and Pudong International Talent Station bring the whole optical-communications value chain to one table: upstream chips, materials and equipment; optical modules, CPO and system integration; and cloud providers and data-center customers. A matchmaking session about real demand, real orders and real investment.
AI Venture Meetup No. 019 · Startup Pitch
Psyrene · Home Healthcare
Guest: Psyrene Tech · 2026-07-24 · Online closed-door session · Tencent Meeting (VOOV)
An AI medication-dispensing robot plus home management of chronic conditions: Psyrene founder Liu Haowen on starting from medication adherence in mental illness, turning “taking pills on time” into a proactive care system, and the mass production and overseas expansion of medical hardware incubated within Li Zexiang’s ecosystem.
AI Venture Meetup No. 018 · Startup Pitch
Timing AI · Emotion Tech
Guest: Timing (Spark Timing, Inc.) · 2026-07-03 · Online closed-door session · Tencent Meeting (VOOV)
AI companionship plus a personal-rhythm platform: Timing founder Tiffany Yang on turning astrology and BaZi into decision infrastructure for timing, and on cold-starting and validating paid conversion through organic growth on Reddit and TikTok.
AI Venture Meetup No. 017 · Startup Pitch
SyncPlantXAI · Smart Manufacturing
Guest: SyncPlantXAI · 2026-06-26 · Online closed-door session · Tencent Meeting (VOOV)
White-box physical AI models reshaping manufacturing processes: SyncPlantXAI founder Fan Xihong on SyncNeuro closed-loop control and a “pay per roll” MaaS model.
AI Venture Meetup · Roundtable
SVTR × Zhiwai Private Dinner: Globalizing Chinese AI Brands
Guest: SVTR × Zhiwai Private Dinner: Globalizing Chinese AI Brands · 2026-05-18 · 151 California Ave unit e, Palo Alto
AI Venture Meetup · Roundtable
GEO × Reddit Roundtable: From Ranking to Being Cited
Guest: SVTR × ZHIWAI GLOBAL · 2026-01-14 · Palo Alto
A closed-door roundtable by SVTR and ZHIWAI on the shift from SEO to GEO: how content gets cited in model answers, how to measure reference rate, and why Reddit is becoming a key layer of evidence and trust.
AI Venture Meetup · Roundtable
AI Coding 2025: From Copilot to Agentic Systems
Guest: Kuaishou KAT-Coder Core Team · 2025-12-05 · Imperial Treasure · 151 California Ave, Palo Alto
A closed-door lunch roundtable with Kuaishou's KAT-Coder core team for founders, CTOs and infra leads on moving AI coding from code completion to end-to-end agentic engineering workflows at industrial scale.
AI Venture Meetup No. 016 · Frontier League
Reverse Globalization and Renewed Growth @ ModelSpeed Space, Shanghai
Guest: 8 AI startup pitches · dozens of investors including Hillhouse Capital and Lenovo Capital · 2025-11-16 · Shanghai · ModelSpeed Space
November 16, 2025 · SVTR hosted the “Reverse Globalization and Renewed Growth” AI Venture Meetup at ModelSpeed Space in Shanghai. Eight AI projects (including ASI low-altitude 3D mapping, Digit Master digital marketing workers, SLAM XCAM consumer 3D cameras, Bolei Technology’s L4 autonomous mining, Moyu AI and Yuhe Technology) met dozens of investors including Hillhouse and Lenovo Capital. The shared signal: AI startups are shifting from imagination to the income statement, proving product and cost in China first and then going overseas as a whole.
AI Venture Meetup No. 015 · Frontier League
AI + Robotics @ Stanford
Guest: 7 AI + robotics startup pitches · co-hosted with Ivy Capital · 2025-10-09 · EVGR, Building C
October 9, 2025 · SVTR and Ivy Capital hosted an AI + Robotics pitch session at Stanford. Seven projects covered hospital logistics robots, remote takeover for robots, smart prosthetics, multi-agent security operations and AI-native communication. The shared signal: moving from demos to sustained paid use in real settings, with costs brought down through China’s supply chain.
AI Venture Meetup No. 014 · Frontier League
Greater Bay Area Meetup @ Qianhai, Shenzhen
Guest: Composable innovation · Shenzhen Capital Group, Innoangel Fund, Oriza Holdings and others · keynote by Raphael Shu · 2025-09-14 · Shenzhen · Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneur Hub
September 14, 2025 · SVTR hosted a Greater Bay Area AI venture meetup at the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneur Hub. An investor roundtable (Shenzhen Capital Group, Innoangel Fund, Oriza Holdings) focused on “composable innovation”: the model is no longer the only barrier; data, industry know-how, agent frameworks and hardware integration form the platform moat. Lu Zhenlin of Pinsheng Technology argued that Shenzhen could become the world’s launchpad for AI hardware, and Raphael Shu shared a multi-agent collaboration platform by video.
AI Venture Meetup No. 013 · Online Roundtable
AI + Education (Gaokao Zhiyuan)
Guest: The Gaokao Zhiyuan team (Liu Rui) · 2025-05-11 · Online
SVTR members’ session No. 013 focused on AI + education, with a talk by the team behind Gaokao Zhiyuan, an SVTR-incubated company: the value anchor of education AI is shifting from generating content to making a one-off major decision on the user’s behalf, and college-application choices after the gaokao are the sharpest test.
AI Venture Meetup No. 012 · Online Roundtable
AI + Healthcare
Guest: Dr. Yuan · 2025-02-22 · Online
AI Venture Meetup No. 011 · Online Roundtable
AI Productivity Tools
Guest: Kaitan (Epictopia) · 2025-02-16 · Online
AI Venture Meetup No. 010 · Online Roundtable
AI + Sales
Guest: Ryan Tang (DealightAI) · 2025-01-26 · Online
AI Venture Meetup No. 008 · Online Roundtable
AI Application Trends and Enterprise Transformation
Guest: Feng Xiaochuan (Enflame, formerly McKinsey) · 2025-01-12 · Online
AI Venture Meetup No. 007 · Online Roundtable
AI + Video Creation
Guest: Zhang Yufei (Yongxian AI) · 2025-01-05 · Online
AI Venture Meetup No. 006 · Online Roundtable
AI + Fashion E-commerce
Guest: Anya Cheng (Taelor) · 2024-12-29 · Online
AI Venture Meetup No. 005 · Online Roundtable
AI + Law: Patent Drafting
Guest: Luo Tao · 2024-12-22 · Online
AI Venture Meetup No. 004 · Online Roundtable
AI + Data Analytics
Guest: Pang Dawei (Yuankong AI) · 2024-12-15 · Online
AI Venture Meetup No. 002 · Online Roundtable
AI + Human Resources
Guest: Co-founder of Zhimian AI · 2024-12-01 · Online
AI Venture Meetup No. 001 · Online Roundtable
AI + Social
Guest: The AI Second Brain team · 2024-11-24 · Online
The Future of AI
Leading Globally: Chinese AI Startups Going Overseas, Seen from Silicon Valley
Guest: Alex (Silicon Valley investor · former VP at a major tech company · SVTR advisor) · 2024-04-13 · Online
The Future of AI
Global Online Closed-Door Pitch: Generative AI Going Global (co-hosted with AWS)
Guest: 9 AI startups expanding overseas · judges from IDG, Yunqi Partners, Chuxin Capital, Innoangel Fund, Meituan Strategic Investment and DiDi Strategic Investment · 2024-02-25 · Global online · closed-door
The first global online closed-door pitch on “Generative AI Going Global”, co-hosted by SVTR and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Nine early-stage AI startups expanding overseas were selected from 50+ applicants (pre-Series B, spanning generative AI and tooling, e-commerce, enterprise software and smart hardware). Judges came from leading firms including IDG, Yunqi Partners, Chuxin Capital, Innoangel Fund, Meituan Strategic Investment and DiDi Strategic Investment. AWS offered eligible selected companies up to RMB 175,000 in cloud credits. This was a closed-door session; pitch materials are not public.
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