Yao Zhang

Founder & CEO @Converge AI | Led @Kimi_Moonshot ‘s first round | ex Oxford AI, Tencent AI Lab

📍 China🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2023
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B-round investor
May 2023
Z.ai is the AI company behind the GLM series models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity.
Vice President of Investment
Jan 2023
Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQs total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.
First-round Investor
Jan 2023
Discover the power of Kimi K3. Available now on kimi.ai, Kimi app, Kimi API, and Kimi Code.
Angel Investor
Aug 2021
Meet the worlds most popular and intuitive free AI 3D model generator. Transform text and images into stunning 3D models in seconds with our text & image to 3D model tool—no experience required! Meshy empowers artists, game developers, and creators to bring their visions to life!
First-round Investor
Oct 2020
Moore Threads, founded in 2020, is committed to build the best platform to accelerate AI, graphics and Metaverse computing.
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Experience · 6 entries
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2025
Co-Founder & CEO
May 2025
AI Agents Across Every Domain. One Unified Platform. Not Just Working Together - Continuously Converging Toward The Best Answer For You.
2023
B-round investor
May 2023
Z.ai is the AI company behind the GLM series models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity.
Vice President of Investment
Jan 2023
Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQs total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.
First-round Investor
Jan 2023
Discover the power of Kimi K3. Available now on kimi.ai, Kimi app, Kimi API, and Kimi Code.
2021
Angel Investor
Aug 2021
Meet the worlds most popular and intuitive free AI 3D model generator. Transform text and images into stunning 3D models in seconds with our text & image to 3D model tool—no experience required! Meshy empowers artists, game developers, and creators to bring their visions to life!
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