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Lipeng Lai

Researcher · Founder

Now Founder, XtalPi

Latest on AI4S.fyiFunding · Sep 4, 2025 · founderXtalPi · Placing · about HK$2,653.3M gross

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Affiliations

Current

Founder · XtalPisince 2015sidley.com ↗

Also named in the companies' announcements: MIT

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About

Lipeng Lai is a co-founder of XtalPi and its chief innovation officer, overseeing AI development. Before founding the company he was a software developer at Epic Systems and a postdoctoral associate in the SUTD-MIT graduate fellowship programme. He holds a double bachelor's in physics and mathematics from Peking University and a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago.

Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: hkexnews.hk ↗

Founded

XtalPiDrug discovery · 2015 · 4 rounds on record · Placing about HK$2,653.3M gross
Background: MIT postdoc (physics) (as the company's own announcements put it)
Co-founders: Shuhao Wen, Jian Ma

Nothing else on the record names them yet.

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