xNova VC was delighted to join the “Startup 101” salon hosted by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Silicon Valley Alumni Association on May 31, 2026.
In the current wave of AI, the SJTU community has shown particularly strong momentum in areas such as Physical AI, world models, autonomous driving, and robotics. From Cewu Lu of Flexiv, to Xiaodi Hou, Yuandong Tian and Saining Xie, many outstanding founders and researchers from the SJTU community are helping push the frontier of both technology and industry.
We are also honored to have participated in some of these emerging opportunities through our investment work, and we were glad to share a few of our own observations at the event.
We look forward to more exchanges like this, where ideas, talent, and capital can meet, connect, and help accelerate the next generation of AI-native and deep tech companies.