Beijing / ShenzhenUTC+8

Aldrich FYI

builder by night.
investor by day.

FYI
A note

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.

Between Cities

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

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.

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

Ateve

AI search infra · query the world

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

CAYE

commercial coffee machines · the 1000th cup tastes like the first

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

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

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.

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.