At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Beijing based CEO’ operating in the Art space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Jefferson Chen
CEO & Co-Founder of ADVANCE.AI
Jefferson Lanjie Chen is the Co-Founder, Group Chairman & CEO at Advance Intelligence Group.
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About Advance Intelligence Group, ADVANCE.AI, GSR Ventures: ADVANCE.AI is a fintech company that uses artificial intelligence to prevent fraud and provide automation.
Xudong Cao
Founder & CEO of Momenta
Founder and CEO of Momenta, formerly Executive Research Director at SenseTime, Researcher at Microsoft.
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About Momenta: Momenta is a developer of autonomous driving technology designed to improve efficiency.
Anni Chen
Founder/CEO of Kuaikan Manhua
Anni Chen, a 25 year old Chinese Founder and CEO, took Chinese internet by storm with her anime series “The 1% Life,” which depicts the aspirations and struggles of young urban Chinese. In the same year Chen founded Kuaikan Manhua, an online curation of China’s original anime and cartoon works. Now, the site has attracted almost 100 million daily active users as well as 1000 anime artists, who routinely publish their works on the platform.
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About Kuaikan Manhua: Kuaikan Manhua is an online marketplace that allows users to buy e-comic books.
Guanchun Wang
CEO & Cofounder of Laiye
Guanchun Wang serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Laiye.
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About Laiye: Laiye is an interactive platform that offers consumers and enterprises with intelligent assistant products.
Yuanqing Lin
Founder & CEO of Aibee
Dr. Lin Yuanqing is the former president of Baidu Research Institute, holds a master’s degree in optical engineering from Tsinghua University and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He led the team to achieve number one in the international test of computer vision technology. He won the “strongest brain” in man-machine competition and the technical achievements have landed in the industry. In 2016, he was selected as a high-level overseas talent in Beijing. Lin Yuanqing also served as Director of National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Learning Technology and Applications, Head of Media Analysis Department of NEC Labs America, Chairman of NIPS Congress, and Co-chair of International Symposium on Large-scale Visual Identity and Retrieval.
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About Aibee: Aibee is an artificial intelligence solution developer company.

Orion Zhao
Co-founder, CEO of Moka
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About Moka: Moka is a SaaS-based HR platform that allows companies to optimize recruitment services.

Chen Kuan
Founder and CEO of Infervision
Chen Kuan is founder and CEO at Infervision. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where he studied under four Nobel Prize winners, Gary Becker, Robert Fogel, James Heckmanm, and Lars Hansen. Chen also studied financial modeling and intelligent modeling in the Double Doctor Degrees Program of Economics and Finance. He founded the company in 2015.
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About Infervision: Infervision is an AI high-tech company that uses deep learning technology and computer vision to help diagnose cancers.
Zhang Mo
Founder and CEO of Yi+
As CEO and Founder of Yi+, she has expanded the company from a start-up to one of China’s leading AI computer vision “Unicorns”. With her veteran Internet technology background that studied at Peking University and Nanyang Technological Univeristy and work for Huawei, Microsoft, and IBM, Mo founded the Yi+ AI, a world’s leading computer vision engine provider in June 2014.
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About Yi+: Yi+ is a Chinese artificial intelligence start-up developing machine vision technology for content marketing.
Yongzhen Huang
Founder and CEO of WATRIX.AI
Huang graduated from CASIA and got his Ph.D. degree. He has been an Associate Professor of NLPR. In 2016, he founded Watrix Technology. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, and computational visual cognition. He has published more than 30 papers in international journals and conferences such as IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMSC-B, Neurocomputing, CVPR, NIPS, ICPR, ICIP. He has obtained several honors and awards, including 40 Under 40 of Fortune (China).
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About WATRIX.AI: WATRIX.AI is an artificial intelligence company focusing on computer vision and video big data analysis.
Wenyuan Dai
Founder and CEO of 4Paradigm
He was the chief scientist of Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab. He has directed Baidu Fengchao online marketing system, Baidu brain and other heavyweight core products, so that Baidu’s liquidity capacity increased by 8 times in 4 years, mobile terminal realization ability continues to exceed Wall Street expectations. Received the first prize of the “6th Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award” Innovation Award and was selected as “Fortune” in 2017. China’s 40 business elites under 40 years old He was selected as an MIT TR 35 outstanding technology innovation elite under 35 years old.
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About 4Paradigm: 4Paradigm is an AI tech firm that helps enterprises improve work efficiency while reducing risk and achieving greater commercial value.
Gan Ling
Founder and CEO of Meishubao
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About Meishubao: Meishubao is an online painting learning platform for children.
Yili Wu
CEO of SandStar
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About SandStar: SandStar is an artificial intelligence platform that provides computer vision technology to the retail industry.
Xing Li
Founder and CEO of Deep Intelligent Pharma
With over 12 years’experience in drug development in Pfizer, Sanofi, and Johnson & Johnson, she founded the startup in October 2017, aiming to utilize most advanced AI technologies to empower and accelerate the whole drug discovery & development process. In Johnson & Johnson, she built a team of 31 staff from zero and implemented the first AI program in Johnson & Johnson Asia – regulatory document machine translation system – successfully. Xing got her master’s degree from Peking University Health Science Center in pharmaceutics.
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About Deep Intelligent Pharma: Deep Intelligent Pharma is a Beijing based Healthcare company.

Ke Jiao
Founder and CEO of Yongqianbao
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About Yongqianbao: Yongqianbao is an AI-based financial service APP that provides small amount, short term loans to underbanked population in China.
Yong Zhao
Founder CEO of Deep Glint
Yong Zhao is the founder of Deep Glint, a provider of 3D image analysis and pattern recognition technologies for the fields of security monitoring and business analysis. Previously Zhao was employed as a senior researcher at Google research institute, after which he founded Deep Glint in 2013 in Beijing. Zhao received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in electronics engineering from Fudan University, along with a doctorate in computer engineering from Browns University, for which he majored in computer vision and operation photography.
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About Deep Glint: Deep Glint is a computer vision startup providing 3D image analysis and pattern recognition technologies for mission-critical applications.

Tianqi Sun
Founder & CEO of Vincross
Tianqi Sun is dedicated to making technology accessible to the masses. As CEO and founder, today, his focus is on building Vincross, which provides individuals with the tools to learn, explore and build robotics. Tianqi’s diverse background includes not only artificial intelligence and robotics but also neuroscience and philosophy. Before starting Vincross, Tianqi worked as an AI scientist at Tsinghua University, where he spent his time exploring neural networks of animals, making the important connection between biology and AI. He conducted similar research at Microsoft Research Asia.
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About Vincross: Vincross is a technology company that designs, develops, and sells consumer robotics.

Archer Li
Founder & CEO of 51WORLD
Archer Li is taking care of the whole company in strategic and management aspect. Graduated from Chongqing University in 2007, Li join Modem Land (HK), a listed real estate group and became CEO of Firstcare, the property management company of Modem Land (HK) after years of work. Li founded 51HiTech late 2014, which is now a leading VIRIAR startup in China.
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About 51WORLD: Digital twin platform
Xiaoliang Chen
Founder & CEO of SoundAI
Chen Xiaoliang is Founder at SoundAI. He received a B.Admin degree from Beihang University and a Ph.D degree from UCAS. He was the associate professor from IACAS, and is currently a member of the ASC, CCF, ACM, IEEE and Zhongguancun High-end Leading Talent.
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About SoundAI: SoundAI is an innovation company that specializes in acoustics frontier technology and artificial intelligence interaction.
Tian Tian
CEO of RealAI
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About RealAI: RealAI is an AI tech firm providing services like financial smart risk control & management, and a face recognition system.
Grace Huang
Founder & CEO of iPinYou
Grace Huang, founder and CEO of IPINYOU, takes full charge of the strategic planning and operational management of IPINYOU. She is the first brand marketing expert who introduced behavioral targeting, RTB and DSP concept to Chinese market. She worked in the Marketing Department of Procter & Gamble Group and was in charge of brand marketing and hence has accumulated abundant branding and marketing experience. Thereafter, she worked in the world’s top consultant firm McKinsey and offered marketing strategy consultation for many world-class enterprises. She graduated from Peking University majoring in both law and English, then attended UCLA and got a MBA degree.
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About iPinYou: iPinYou is a demand side platform with real-time bidding, cloud computing, and audience profiling technology solutions.
Wei Qi
Founder and CEO of Jimu Technology
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About Jimu Technology: Jimu Technology is a technology innovation company specializing in artificial intelligence and key technologies of robots.
David Zhu
Founder and CEO of Vinci
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About Vinci: Vinci is an intelligent headphone that understands you.
Alvaro Montoya
Co-founder & CEO of Akkadu
Alvaro Montoya is the Co-founder & CEO at Akkadu.
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About Akkadu: Remote Interpreting Technologies
Duan Kai
CEO & Chief Architect of AICHAIN
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About AICHAIN: AICHAIN is a public chain that is specially designed as a blockchain infrastructure for AI applications.
Fei Wu
CEO of LLVision
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About LLVision: LLVision focuses on AR+AI technology integration and provides related hardware products and software services.
Sotiris Stasinopoulos
Founder-CEO of Robociti by Popular Robotics
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About Robociti by Popular Robotics: Popular Robotics targets teenagers and young adults with an aim to empower the robotics community and make robotics accessible.
Yang Liu
CEO of Seengene
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About Seengene: Seengene is an augmented reality company developing software, hardware such as AR glasses.
Xiangfei Chai
Founder & CEO of Huiyi Huiying
Obtained Postdoctoral fellow in Stanford University, doctor degree in medical physics major in Amsterdam University in Holland. He had studied and worked in the world top medical imaging organizations, such as cancer center of Stanford University, Holland cancer research center and radiology department in Leuven University. He has over 10 years experience on interdisciplinary scientific research and project in the field of Artificial Intelligence, image processing, and data analysis, with the good knowledge of the core technology of image segmentation, identification, analysis and deep learning algorithm. He has been honored “Top 30 AI Start-up entrepreneur” and “Best Youth Model”. Xiangfei Chai also was the the first term trainee of Qingteng University held by Tencent.
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About Huiyi Huiying: Huiyi Huiying is an international cloud computing & AI tech that has created a digital medical imaging and tumor radiotherapy platform.
Eric Yu
Founder & CEO of Global Tone Communication
ERIC YU is the Founder & CEO of Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd. (GTCOM). GTCOM is a world-leading big data and artificial intelligence company. With advanced NLP and sematic computing technologies, it collects, mines and analyzes massive global data, builds industrial knowledge graphs, algorithm models and visualization platforms for finance, technology, industry, smart city, national security, consulting and multiple other sectors, and provides global corporate users with comprehensive cutting-edge scenario-based solutions powered by big data and AI.
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About Global Tone Communication: Global Tone Communication Technology is a leading language service and technology provider.
Zhang Fan
Founder & CEO of Mioji Travel
Zhang Fan is Founder at Mioji Travel
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About Mioji Travel: Mioji provides a smart approach to personalise your travel experience.
Xiuwen Zhao
Founder and CEO of ZingFront
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About ZingFront: ZingFront Software is an AI technology company that has built AD Creative Cloud and 3D-Creative Cloud.
Yu Zhichen
Founder and CEO of Turing Robot
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About Turing Robot: Turing Robot is the best AI Robot company in China.
Yi Zhang
CEO and Co-Founder of eBrain
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About eBrain: eBrain is an artificial intelligence application developer.
Hai Tao
CEO and Founder of Vion Technology
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About Vion Technology: Vion Technology is an AI firm that specializes in machine vision and offers AI products & solutions to smart cities & business intelligence.
Shicong Feng
Founder and CEO of Bailian.AI
Shicong Feng is the founder and CEO of BaiLian. Prior to this, Shicong co-founded MiningLamp and has served the company as CTO.
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About Bailian.AI: Bailian.AI is an artificial intelligence company
Ray Wang
CEO and Co-founder of Deepleaper
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About Deepleaper: Deepleaper is a business semantics processing engine developer based in China.
Xi Wang
CEO of Wysengine
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About Wysengine: WYSEngine Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd is a scientific and technologic company.