Former Vice President of JD.com Group and CTO of Luckin Coffee, He Gang, has started his own business and entered the home companion robot race

The cross track of "silver economy+embodied intelligence" adds another cloud computing expert

Author | Wang Wei

Editor | Liu Wei

Leifeng.com has exclusively learned that He Gang, former Vice President of JD Group and CTO of Luckin Coffee, has started a new business and established the company "Yueling Zhiban Technology", aiming at the AI companion robot track, focusing on domestic household scenarios, and creating AI intelligent elderly care robots for the silver haired population.

At present, the first round of financing is underway, with plans to sell 9% of the shares and raise 20 million yuan, with a pre investment valuation of 200 million yuan. According to Qichacha, the company was established in September 2025.

Regarding this news, Lei Fengwang contacted He Gang himself and he stated that the situation is true. The first product is expected to start pre-sale from the end of July to early August, and complete mold opening and start mass production from the end of September to early October. This year's target sales volume is 1000 units, completing preliminary market validation; At the same time, we plan to enter the US market next year and promote globalization.

In his opinion, the current household intelligent robots belong to a completely new species, and the market is still in its early stages. It is not too late to enter the market, and its own products are difficult to be copied and its cost control ability is extremely high.

He Gang was admitted to the Youth Class of the University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 15, and later graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison with dual master's degrees in Computer Science and Physics. Before returning to China, he worked for a total of twelve years at Microsoft and Amazon, serving as the Chief R&D Manager of Microsoft's online advertising department and the technical leader of Amazon AWS S3 cloud computing project.

In 2011, He Gang was invited by Chen Tianqiao, the founder of Shanda Group, to return to China and serve as the head of Shengda Cloud Computing and vice president of Shanda Group.

In 2012, after leaving Shanda, He Gang quickly joined JD.com as the Vice President of Technology and Chief Scientist of JD.com Group, gradually taking charge of JD's cloud computing business.

At the beginning of his tenure, he proposed a highly forward-looking three-step strategy of "private cloud → public cloud → business ecosystem". Under his leadership, JD Cloud's business developed rapidly and once ranked among the top five in the domestic industry. He is also regarded as the "first generation leader of JD Cloud" by the outside world. (For more information about He Gang's past at JD.com, you can read previous reports from Leifeng.com titled "Why JD.com No Longer Needs CTOs" and "Capturing Alibaba and Tencent's' Cloud 'Giants".)

He Gang joined Luckin Coffee as CTO in September 2019 and resigned in April of the following year, becoming the first senior executive to leave after the Luckin Coffee financial fraud scandal. In August 2020, he joined Nayuki Tea as CTO, responsible for front-end and back-end digital construction. Leave in August 2023 and turn to big model entrepreneurship.

In the following three years, he faded out of the public eye and there was no news of him in the martial arts world. Appearing again is this move.

Currently, under the wave of artificial intelligence, the robot race track is accelerating and heating up, with multiple forces coming out intensively, accelerating the bottleneck. At the same time, China's aging population is accelerating comprehensively. According to national statistics on residents, by the end of 2025, the population aged 60 and above in China will be approximately 323 million, accounting for 23.0% of the total population. Among them, there are 224 million people aged 65 and above, accounting for 15.9%, and about 100 million young elderly people (aged 60-64). The combination of two major trends has opened up vast space for the intelligent elderly care industry.

Under the enormous market potential, he chose to embark on another journey and enter the cross track of "silver economy+embodied intelligence".

From a former genius youth to an entrepreneur in his fifties who is still charging ahead in the industry, in the increasingly fierce competition of the AI robot track, when asked about his current entrepreneurial mindset, this veteran who has been deeply involved in cloud computing for more than 30 years reveals the purity unique to technical professionals and blurts out, "It's fun.

Policies, demands, and technology may seem to form a synergy, but for elderly care companion robots to truly enter households, they still face many practical tests, and the number of families willing to pay for it is still unknown. Regarding He Gang's movements in the future, Leifeng.com will continue to monitor.