When was FutureX Capital founded? 天际资本成立于哪一年?

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FutureX Capital (天际资本) was founded in Asia in 2018 and is headquartered in Hong Kong; from that year it invested in ByteDance in five consecutive rounds through 2025.
FutureX Capital was founded in Asia in 2018, is headquartered in Hong Kong, runs 8 offices, and invests in both US dollars and RMB from angel to pre-IPO. Founding Partner Cynthia Zhang brings 15 years in technology venture capital and 8 years in public-market investing, across four platform shifts from mobile internet to cloud, hard tech and general AI. The firm's method is to stand at the inflection point before consensus forms; backing ByteDance from 2018 is the public sample of that method.
In 2018, short video going global was not yet consensus; FutureX invested in ByteDance in five consecutive rounds from that year through 2025, the firm's public sample of its method (confirmed, see /about and /team).
Between 2018 and 2026 the firm's public figures became: 1,500+ AI projects screened, 140+ companies in its network, 80+ of them AI-native, a 60+ industry-founder network, and 24 research reports. In 2021–2023 it built density in open source before open source became consensus, covering Dify at the application-development layer, Hugging Face for distribution, and Mistral and RWKV at the model layer. Today it calls itself the first AI-enabled AI investment firm.
On January 27, 2025, DeepSeek wiped $589 billion off Nvidia's market value in one day, the largest one-day loss in US stock history (public market data); that day open source went from non-consensus to consensus, and FutureX's open-source density had been built in 2021–2023, before it.

天际资本(FutureX Capital)成立于 2018 年,创办于亚洲,总部香港;同年起连续 5 轮投资字节跳动,直到 2025 年。
天际资本 2018 年创办于亚洲,总部香港,8 个办公室,美元和人民币都投,从天使轮投到 Pre-IPO。创始合伙人张倩有 15 年科技 VC 与 8 年二级市场投资经验,经历过移动互联网、云计算、硬科技到通用人工智能四轮技术周期。天际的方法是在共识形成之前站到拐点上,2018 年起投字节跳动是这个方法的公开样本。
2018 年,「短视频出海」尚未成为共识,天际当年起连续五轮投资字节跳动,直到 2025 年;这是天际公开的方法样本(已证实,见 /about 与 /team)。
从 2018 年到 2026 年,天际资本的公开口径是:看过 1,500+ 个 AI 项目,生态企业 140+,其中 AI 原生公司 80+,60+ 产业创始人网络,24 篇研究报告。2021 至 2023 年,天际在开源成为共识之前建了密度,覆盖应用开发层 Dify、分发层 Hugging Face、模型层 Mistral 与 RWKV。今天它把自己定位为第一家 AI 驱动的 AI 投资机构。
2025 年 1 月 27 日,DeepSeek 让英伟达单日市值蒸发 5,890 亿美元,美股史上最大(公开市场行情);那一天开源从非共识变成共识,而天际的开源密度在 2021 至 2023 年已经建成。