Participated · Series B · Jun 2026

Over the past year Silicon Mobile Technology has achieved explosive growth in the enterprise market, operating a Token-factory model to deliver efficient MaaS (model-as-a-service). The company reports daily token call volumes reaching tens of trillions and serves more than 10 million users and over 10,000 enterprise customers. Its revenue grew by more than 10x year-over-year, and its overseas business reached monthly revenues in the hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars. The firm positions itself across the energy, chip, compute infrastructure, cloud services, large-model and scenario-application ecosystem and has attracted investment from leaders across those segments. The announcement did not disclose founding year or headquarters location.

Led · Series B · Jan 2019

Emotibot develops NLP and multimodal emotion-recognition technology to integrate AI capabilities into enterprise business and power intelligent transformation. The company focuses on natural language understanding and cultivates digital employees by following the training path of human staff. It offers end-to-end solutions across AI+Finance, AI+Enterprise, AI+Medical, AI+Manufacturing, AI+Intelligent Terminal, and AI+Government. Emotibot says it has served more than 300 large enterprise customers, including Huawei, Minsheng Bank, Guangzhou Automobile Group, and China UnionPay. The firm aims to promote SaaS standardized products and maintain its technical and product advantages to help more large and medium-sized enterprises achieve intelligent transformation. Competitors named in the article include InterActions Corporation and Digital Reasoning internationally, and iFLYTEK, Unisound, and AISPEECH domestically. Emotibot develops computer vision and natural language processing (NLP) technology to enable visual and voice emotion-recognition in human-machine interaction. The company sells emotion-sensing chatbot and recognition services to financial institutions, e-commerce, call centers, and smart device makers. Key partners and customers include Tencent, iQiyi, UBTech, China Merchants Bank, China Minsheng Bank, and China Mobile. Emotibot also provides a Bot Factory platform that lets companies create their own chatbots; Huawei has built an employee service platform using Bot Factory. The startup says it will use the new funding to continue NLP research and further develop Bot Factory. Emotibot was founded in 2015 by former Microsoft director Kenny Chien. Emotibot is an artificial intelligence company that develops emotional robot solutions using deep learning, Chinese semantic understanding, emotional calculation and related computer science techniques. Its robots can read, see, listen, remember, self-learn and infer users' affective states, emotions and intentions. The company provides user-centered bots across the e-commerce cycle — pre-sale, sale and after-sale — and offers financial intelligence tools to identify needs of high-value customers and support advisory and after-sales service. Emotibot supports language, image and voice human-computer interactions and delivers customized development so devices can have a smart AI "brain." Through NLU and emotion recognition the system is designed to accurately understand user intent, reduce operational costs and improve efficiency. Financially, the company completed a $30M Series B in 2019.

Led · Series B · Dec 2018

AsiaYo is a travel accommodation booking platform founded in 2014 and based in Taipei, Taiwan. The site offers a mix of rooms, apartments, hostels and hotels, and emphasizes verified listings and multilingual customer support via Line, Facebook, WeChat and help lines. It targets younger intra-Asia tourists and uses an AI-based algorithm, AYSort, to create "hyper-personalized journeys" and booking suggestions. AsiaYo works with roughly 50 partners (including Hong Kong Airlines, KKday and Rakuten LIFULL STAY) and runs reward programs and deals. The company reports about 300,000 members, roughly 60,000 listings across 60 cities, a team of about 100 people, and says overseas bookings account for 60% of its business. New funding will support launches in Singapore and Malaysia and a new Japanese website slated for next year.