Zhou Yahui is the founder of Kunlun Tech Co Ltd, an A-share listed company in China; Chairman of Opera Ltd., a U.S.-listed company; Chairman of OPay, a fintech unicorn; and founder of Kunlun Capital.
As an entrepreneur, Mr. Zhou established Kunlun Tech in 2008 and led the company to its public listing in 2015. Kunlun Tech is China’s leading artificial intelligence technology company, with businesses spanning AI assistants, AI video, AI music and audio, AI social platforms, AI gaming, information distribution, and social entertainment. The company has established a full-stack AI ecosystem across computing power, models, and applications. Its global footprint covers Europe, North America, South America, China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, with average global monthly active users approaching 400 million.
As an investor, Mr. Zhou founded Kunlun Capital and has invested in over 100 companies since 2015. Notable investments include Musical.ly (acquired by ByteDance), Pony.ai (NASDAQ: PONY), Dada Nexus Ltd (NASDAQ: DADA), Cytek (NASDAQ: CTKB), OBiO Technology (SH: 688238), Guangdong Xidi Micro-Electronic Co.,Ltd. (SH: 688173), Dreame Technology, Inkeverse Group Limited, Synlight Semiconductor, Dongyue Future Hydrogen Energy Materials, Microquanta, and others. He has been recognized by Forbes and Zero2IPO Group as one of the “China Top 100 Venture Capitalists” and “China Top 100 Investors”.
Mr. Zhou received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Precision Instruments at Tsinghua University.
