On January 8th, the inaugural 2026 event of the "X-DAY" Xili Lake Roadshow Club, titled "Sailing into the Future - Early-Stage Investment Special," was held at the Shenzhen University Town International Conference Center. This event, a regular and branded investment and financing service platform established by the Nanshan District of Shenzhen, focused on the growth needs of budding and early-stage technology projects from "0 to 1." It deeply connected with the source innovation resources of the Xili Lake International Science and Education City X9 University Alliance, attracting representatives from over a hundred leading investment institutions, prominent financial firms, key industrial players, and experts from academia. The event effectively built a high-precision bridge connecting cutting-edge tech projects with top-tier capital.
The event meticulously selected six high-quality early-stage projects anchored in future industries for on-stage presentations: Silicon-based Memory, Xuanyuan Technology, Qinghang Times, Yuanxing Lightyear, Yuai Intelligence, and Ganqi Technology. This project matrix spanned multiple strategic emerging sectors, including artificial intelligence, new energy, and advanced manufacturing. Among them, the project presented by Qinghang Times focused on current pain points in aircraft endurance and payload, designing a liquid hydrogen-high temperature PEM hydrogen-electric coupled power system. It aims for maximum comprehensive efficiency in "long endurance-high payload-clean-safe and stable" performance, potentially increasing aircraft endurance by 10-50 times and payload by 2-4 times, while reducing refueling time to mere minutes. Ganqi Technology is dedicated to introducing advanced multi-dimensional force sensor technology into the sports equipment and robotics industries, focusing on the R&D and production of a new generation of intelligent sports products to propel sports equipment from traditional gear to a technological, intelligent, and lightweight leap.
"For startup teams and early-stage projects that are small, resource-limited, and have constrained funding, 'X-DAY' is an incredibly friendly platform. With the support of this ecosystem, we feel like fish in water, truly swimming into the vast ocean," said Wang Xiaozhe, founder of Silicon-based Memory (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd. He noted that Nanshan's entrepreneurial innovation support measures, including the "X-DAY" Xili Lake Roadshow Club, "Model Camp," "Six Ones," and "Six Vouchers" policies, provide tangible assistance for the survival and development of enterprises, especially startups. Wang Xiaozhe introduced that his team's project focuses on developing a large model for human memory management. By integrating artificial intelligence technology with multi-terminal smart hardware, it aims to achieve long-term human memory collection and unified management, allowing user memories to traverse different applications and human-computer interaction terminals to provide various memory services such as emotional companionship, memory enhancement, and memory migration. Currently, this memory service has been integrated into 10,000 smart hardware devices and has established partnerships with over ten smart hardware companies.
In addition to the roadshow presentations, the event featured an in-depth dialogue session titled "New Logic of Early-Stage Investment." Participants included Hu Zaixia, Deputy General Manager of Huitong Jinkong; Ma Rui, Partner at FreesFund; Zhou Qi, Managing Partner at GSR United Capital, all members of the Nanshan Sci-Tech Investment Partners Program. They were joined by industry and academic guests such as Cao Hongliang, General Manager of SUSTech Assets Co., and Chen Xiangming, Founder and Chairman of Ginkgo Valley Capital, to discuss the new logic and opportunities in early-stage investment. The Nanshan Sci-Tech Investment Partners Program is a key strategic initiative officially launched by Nanshan District on December 3, 2025. Guided by the Nanshan District Financial Development Service Center and coordinated by Huitong Jinkong, Nanshan Strategic Emerging Industry Investment, and Zero2IPO Group, it aims to bridge the "first mile" of scientific and technological achievement transformation, build a capital support system covering the entire enterprise lifecycle, and fully activate the multiplier effect of integrating technological innovation with capital.
As the "first mile" of corporate financing, early-stage investment not only provides crucial financial support but also imports industrial resources, management experience, and strategic patience, returning to a long-termism approach that accompanies sci-tech enterprises. Early-stage investment is a vital component of the Nanshan Sci-Tech Investment Partners Program. This special session on early-stage investment was particularly timely, not only opening a window for early investment in sci-tech enterprises in Shenzhen's Nanshan District but also, through the deep dialogue, clarifying the underlying logic and future opportunities of early-stage investment for a broad audience of entrepreneurs and investors.
"At this current moment, everyone has an equal opportunity in the face of AI," stated Ma Rui. He expressed that by combining Nanshan's solid industrial foundation and continuously cultivating the "X-DAY" Xili Lake Roadshow activities, sowing more seeds in the field of technological innovation will undoubtedly cultivate more industry-leading enterprises in the future.
"Young people must position themselves in a place with no ceiling," Wang Xiaozhe believes. He considers the concentration of innovation and entrepreneurship elements like talent and information in Nanshan to be sufficiently high, making it fertile ground for the rapid growth of frontier technology projects.
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