Caitlin Cai
About Caitlin Cai
Caitlin is a Wharton MBA and Northwestern alumnae, brought over a decade of experience in AI commercialization, go-to-market, product, and finance (PE & VC with a track record of closing deals $250+ million). She has firsthand experience in building AI companies and products with AI thought leaders such as Stanford AI Professor and the founder of Coursera and Google Brain, as well as the Founder of Tencent AI Lab and the Former Head of Product Creative AI at TikTok in early founding teams. Ms. Cai has also served as an executive director at a unicorn AI company XVerse (building LLM + Multimodal AI Models and AI + 3D Infrastructure to supercharge content creation and consumption), which raised over $200 million in funding from Sequoia, Temasek, Tencent, and Hillhouse, and as the founding leadership of an AI+Metaverse fund backed by Hillhouse and XVerse. As an early AI commercialization practitioner, Ms. Cai has led go-to-market efforts at Landing AI, a cutting-edge AI computer vision platform leading domain-specific Large Vision Models. Ms. Cai has been a builder and investor and has served on the advisory boards of multiple AI companies. Caitlin's career is a journey of building/investing/connecting the physical and virtual worlds/communities through technological innovations to enhance the multi-dimensional human experience. Having worked at Warner Bros. and a venture fund that invested in Musical.ly (later acquired and rebranded as TikTok) and studied film production, Ms. Cai is deeply passionate about Creative AI and has been building AI products and companies to unleash human creativity. She advocates for in using technology to build products and experiences that enhance positive mental well-being, foster compassion, and inspire wonder, while strengthening human connections and communities. As a lifelong learner, her Superpower lies in her ability to learn and bridge the gaps of interdisciplinary domains and cultures. Multifaceted and entrepreneurial professional with over a decade of experience in Finance (Private Equity/Venture Capital/Investment Banking), Corporate Strategy, Product Development, Business Development + Strong US-China Network. Industry experience: Applied Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse (ARVR, Web3, 3D, etc), B2B SaaS, Consumer, Media & Entertainment, Real Estate, Finance(VC/PE/IBD), Digital Health Global work experience in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen