ZhenFund × HKUST Startup Talk: Building What's Next with AI 真格校園行

How will AI shape the next generation of startups and innovation? 

Join ZhenFund and HKUST EC for ZhenCampus, an event bringing together students, researchers, and aspiring entrepreneurs to explore the future of AI. Hear from leading investors and innovators, discover emerging opportunities in AI, and exchange ideas on turning breakthrough technologies into impactful ventures. 

EVENT DETAILS

Date: 25 November 2026 (Wed) 

Time: 18:30-20:30 

Venue: LTJ 

Language: Mandarin 

SPEAKERS

1. Yusen Dai 戴雨森

Managing Partner of ZhenFund 

Investment Portfolio: Moonshot AI, Manus, Genspark, ToSummer, AiEDU, Dyna Robotics, Inferact, and Party Animals 

Dai Yusen is a Managing Partner at ZhenFund, where he has led and participated in angel investments in a range of high-growth startups, including Moonshot AI, Manus, Genspark, ToSummer, AiEDU, Dyna Robotics, Inferact, and Party Animals.

Prior to joining ZhenFund, he dropped out of Stanford University to co-found Jumei (NYSE: JMEI), where he was responsible for product design and operations.

Mr. Dai studied Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University.

2. Leon Ming 明超平

Founder & CEO of Youware (TBD) 

Leon is the founder and CEO of YouWare, with a current focus on Renoise, an AI-powered platform exploring new ways to create video. Previously, he was a founding member of ByteDance’s CapCut team and held product roles at OnePlus and Moonshot AI, where he worked on Kimi. His experience spans consumer technology, creative tools, and AI. He is focused on making video creation more accessible and helping people turn their ideas into compelling visual stories.

3. Yifan Zhao 趙一凡

Founder & CEO of Virse 

Creative intelligence and aesthetic-aware AI 

Yifan is the founder of Virse, a creative infrastructure that helps enterprises build their own creative intelligence and enables professionals to create with greater precision, scale, and impact. His team brings together AI researchers and designers from Cornell, HKUST, Brown, MIT, and Parsons. They are pursuing the future of creativity through research and applications in aesthetic-aware generative models and creative cognition for AI agents. Yifan previously worked as a product manager and software engineer at Tencent and graduated from Computer Science @ Cornell.

4. Terry Chang 常天行

Founder of Dotwise 

Terry Chang is the founder of Dotwise, an AI workspace designed to maximize human–agent collaboration. He is an HKUST Bsc alumnus and drop off from mphil to start his startup.

5. Tianyi Qin 秦天一

Managing Director of ZhenFund 

Focus on investments in AI and global expansion 

Investment Portfolio: OPay, HABBY, DREO, Archon Robotics, Interlace, DwarfLab, Simplus, InoKraft, and Eccang 

Tianyi Qin joined ZhenFund in 2018. He focuses on investments in AI and global expansion, and has backed companies including OPay, HABBY, DREO, Archon Robotics, Interlace, DwarfLab, Simplus, InoKraft, and Eccang.

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