Liang Wenfeng on Founding and Origins

Liang Wenfeng — founder profiled in the Chinese Founder Ledger — is documented as follows: zhejiang University-trained engineer who co-founded quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, built large-scale computing infrastructure that later supported AI research, and founded AI company DeepSeek in July 2023, which gained international attention with the January 2025 release of DeepSeek-R1. The profile is grounded in the 3 sources indexed for this founder.

Kai-fu-lee belongs to Group 7 - Recent breakouts. The recent-breakouts group covers founders whose prominence rose sharply in the 2020s — collectibles and IP licensing (Pop Mart), open-source AI (DeepSeek), and applied AI ventures (01.AI) — a cohort shaped by the post-2022 generative-AI wave and China's consumer-brand internationalization.

Liang attended Zhejiang University, earning both bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering, and began his career applying machine-learning methods to quantitative finance before co-founding High-Flyer.

Founded DeepSeek in July 2023, funded and owned by High-Flyer, to pursue AI research building on High-Flyer's existing computing infrastructure.