THE ALDRICH VOL. I · NO. — · — · — PEK

Aldrich FYI

Beijing / Shenzhen builder by night. investor by day. UTC+8

backing founders at Hillhouse Investment — mostly ai agents and hardware. writing small tools after hours to make my own work a little sharper.

if you're making something you love, say hi. not picky about category. picky about point of view.

SECTION A

Between Cities

beijing and shenzhen, in rotation. occasionally in transit. have laptop, will show up.

SECTION B

Drawn To

  • a product that makes me put down my coffee.
  • a person who changes the temperature of a room.
  • an idea still turning over in my head on the walk home.

if any of that sounds like something you're making — or something you are — say hi.

SECTION C

Selected Portfolio

Hillhouse Investment Apr 2025 — Now · Early-Stage · AI / Tech
Led / Invested

Same.dev&Ami.dev

AI coding · screenshot to working app

Intent

AI messaging · stay close across languages

Pikaia&Trooly

user research · 12× faster, AI-led

Paperboy

ambient desktop · before you ask

Raizz

AI sleep · for people who can't

Stealth

AI search infra

Executed

Nori

AI calendar device · first AI device for homemakers

YouWare

AI vibe-coding community

Picaa

AI desk pet · changes outfits with the case

Vastnaut

exoskeleton · stand up like you're thirty

Scientific

second brain · grown from your calendar

BubbleFlow

spatial speaker · sound you can almost see

Dify

agentic workflows · LEGO for agents

Garment

washer-dryer · the one a designer would buy

RGB

anime-native content · fandoms build themselves

Mazu

interactive content · posts you can press

HongShan Capital Group 2024 — 2025 · Multi-Stage · AI / Deep Tech
Led / Invested

Ouraca · Aibrary

AI learning · a teacher who actually knows you

Executed

Math Magic · 数美万物

AI 3D modeling · photo in, printable out

DeepLink

AI LinkedIn · the network you didn't know you had

RingConn

smart ring · health, slipped on a finger

Luxshare · 立讯精密

precision electronics · inside the things you hold

IGNIS

AI for Science · where AGI does its homework

AgileX

embodied AI · a body for the model

f.k.a. Sequoia Capital China.

a fuller list lives on LinkedIn.

SECTION D

From the Desk

a few small tools i wrote to stop annoying myself. published in case they stop annoying you, too.

a daily newspaper tracking china-origin consumer hardware projects on Kickstarter — pre-launch, live, recently funded. cron at 08:00 Beijing. editorial design.
local-first ASR transcript editor with a compounding terminology library. bring your own model. python + sveltekit + sqlite.
your AI memory, owned by you. local-first persona graph extracted from real conversations — imessage, wechat, calendar — exposed via mcp for any agent. python + sqlite + sveltekit. private alpha.