Mingchen Zhang

Investing on game-changing startups. Evolving in the wave of AGI.

📍 Dongcheng Qu, Beijing, China🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Dec 2025
Tairex was founded in September 2024, incubated by the Institute for AI Industry Research (AlR) at Tsinghua University. We are committed to providing convenient, affordable, and high-quality medical services to users worldwide through artificial intelligence. Our companys independently developed AI hospital system, Agent Hospital, works by established generative models for the onset and progression of diseases, creating a data flywheel for the evolution of medical agents. This work proposed a self-evolution strategy for medical agents, enabling the continuous improvement of their capabilities through interaction.
Angel Investor
Oct 2025
MOSI AI is advancing human-computer interaction through AI research and products. We build real-time voice and multimodal systems for developers, researchers, and businesses. Our work spans audio understanding, speech generation, and deployment-first multimodal infrastructure. Together with the OpenMOSS team, we have open-sourced MOSS-Audio, MOVA and our MOSS-TTS family, including MOSS-TTS-Nano, an ultra-lightweight multilingual model designed for real-time streaming, CPU inference, and practical deployment. Our MOSI Studio empowers creators and brands to create and edit real-time voice, video, and multimodal content with context-aware AI. Our MOSI API enables businesses and developers to empower their customer interactions and experiences with our leading models. These systems are powered by our research in low-latency speech generation, audio tokenization, and multimodal modeling. We focus on making advanced AI more responsive, more deployable, and more useful in real-world products and devices.
Board Member
Sep 2025
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Angel Investor
Dec 2024
Approaching.AI was founded in 2023, with roots in the Institute of High Performance Computing at Tsinghua University. Approaching.AI focuses on developing high-performance inference solutions and a full-stack acceleration platform for efficient AI token generation. Approaching.AI is positioned as a high-efficiency AI token production service provider. Through deep software-hardware co-optimization, it delivers ultra-high-throughput, cost-effective Token-as-a-Service and customized inference solutions, enabling AI enterprises to deploy large language models with superior performance and low latency.
Angel Investor
Nov 2024
BioGeometry is an AI-driven biotech dedicated to developing next-generation, programmable protein medicines. We aim to solve the high cost, long lead time, low success rate problems for traditional macromolecular theraputics through the combination of geometric deep learning, structural biology, immunology, and synthetic biology. We enjoy talents from renowned pharmaceutical companies, top-tier AI and bio labs worldwide.
Angel Investor
Sep 2024
Shengshu Technology specializes in multi-modal large models, and is one of the earliest teams globally to engage in diffusion probability model research. Shengshu introduced the worlds first new technical framework, U-ViT, which explores the fusion of Diffusion Models and Transformer architectures for various multimodal generation tasks in 2022. The company is actively exploring the commercial potential of generative AI in areas such as art design, game development, film post-production, and content socialization. Shengshus ultimate vision is to use this multimodal model to enhance human creativity and productivity through AI.
Angel Investor
Mar 2024
SiliconFlow is a global AI infrastructure platform built for developers. Accelerate inference, fine-tuning, and deployment for both language and multimodal models.
Angel Investor
Apr 2023
北京无问芯穹科技有限公司是一家专注于为 AI 2.0时代提供完整解决方案的科技公司。我们的愿景是"释放无穷算力,让 AGI 触手可及",致力于成为大模型落地过程中的 "M×N" 中间层,为中国乃至全球人工智能产业的发展注入新的动力。
Angel Investor
Mar 2023
ModelBest established in August 2022, is an Artificial Intelligence technology company headquartered in Beijing, China. The company is deeply rooted in the field of general AI, with a focus on the innovation and application transformation of large-scale models. ModelBest boasts a prestigious founding R&D team from the Tsinghua in the AI field. Leveraging numerous cutting-edge technologies in natural language processing, the company is currently constructing a large-scale pre-trained model library and corresponding tools, aiming to standardize the technology and applications of large models. Based on the capabilities of the CPM series of large models, ModelBest has successfully facilitated the intelligent upgrade and efficiency enhancement of various industries. Moreover, the company has released a multi-modal dialog assistant with hundreds of billions of parameters, “Luca", to the public. Adhering to the core philosophy of "intelligence encompassing all", we look forward to exploring and expanding unknown possibilities with global partners, aiming to ensure AI technology serves humanity for a better life in a safe and inclusive manner, laying a solid foundation for the advent of the AGI world. OpenBMB (Open Lab for Big Model Base,https://github.com/OpenBMB), founded by ModelBest Inc & TsinghuaNLP, aims to build foundation models and systems towards AGI.
Angel Investor
Jan 2022
Z.ai is the AI company behind the GLM series models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity.
Board Member
Oct 2020
Beacon Education partners with the worlds best universities to create innovative online degree programs through our advanced technology and services platform for student recruitment, support, learning, and analytics.
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Board Observer
Oct 2019
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Board Member
Sep 2018
Synative is a playable video solution company that helps game developers and marketers design and create their own mobile playable ads and demos instantly, efficiently, and affordably. Players can immediately enjoy our interactive ads across all mobile devices, without the need to install an app. Synative brings playable mobile creatives to you through your own creative mind in our two standalone products: Synative Playable Studio - Create playables for your product in minutes with the Synative Playable Studio. Export your work and add it to your next Facebook or mobile ad network campaign. Or, build a playable demo for your app's Google Play Store page. Improve the A/B testing of your advertisements with the quick turnaround allowed by the Synative Playable Studio. Our playables are proven to increase CTR and retention rates. Synative Instant Play - Upload any APK to our Android server environment and create a full-featured demo that allows players access to all parts of your game without the need to download anything.
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Jan 2018
Founded in 2016 in Silicon Valley, Pony.ai has quickly become a global leader in autonomous mobility and is a pioneer in extending autonomous mobility technologies and services at a rapidly expanding footprint of sites around the world. Operating Robotaxi, Robotruck and Personally Owned Vehicles (POV) business units, Pony.ai is an industry leader in the commercialization of autonomous driving and is committed to developing autonomous driving capabilities on a global scale. In the U.S., Pony.ai tests its AVs in Silicon Valley and is building leading Virtual Driver and ADAS Solutions for the U.S. and global markets. To date, Pony.ai has accumulated more than 25 million kilometers of autonomous driving mileage across diverse geographies. Pony.ai’s leading position has been recognized, with CNBC ranking Pony.ai #10 on its 2022 CNBC Disruptor list of the 50 most innovative and disruptive companies. In 2023, Pony.ai was recognized on the XPRIZE and Bessemer Venture Partners inaugural list of the world’s top 100 private deep tech companies, ranking #12 globally.
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Dec 2025
Tairex was founded in September 2024, incubated by the Institute for AI Industry Research (AlR) at Tsinghua University. We are committed to providing convenient, affordable, and high-quality medical services to users worldwide through artificial intelligence. Our companys independently developed AI hospital system, Agent Hospital, works by established generative models for the onset and progression of diseases, creating a data flywheel for the evolution of medical agents. This work proposed a self-evolution strategy for medical agents, enabling the continuous improvement of their capabilities through interaction.
Angel Investor
Oct 2025
MOSI AI is advancing human-computer interaction through AI research and products. We build real-time voice and multimodal systems for developers, researchers, and businesses. Our work spans audio understanding, speech generation, and deployment-first multimodal infrastructure. Together with the OpenMOSS team, we have open-sourced MOSS-Audio, MOVA and our MOSS-TTS family, including MOSS-TTS-Nano, an ultra-lightweight multilingual model designed for real-time streaming, CPU inference, and practical deployment. Our MOSI Studio empowers creators and brands to create and edit real-time voice, video, and multimodal content with context-aware AI. Our MOSI API enables businesses and developers to empower their customer interactions and experiences with our leading models. These systems are powered by our research in low-latency speech generation, audio tokenization, and multimodal modeling. We focus on making advanced AI more responsive, more deployable, and more useful in real-world products and devices.
Board Member
Sep 2025
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Jan 2025
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