en.Wedoany.com Reported - July 9, 2026, jointly announced from Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai — Grace Investment Machine (GIM) announced the completion of a $20 million Series A funding round, co-led by a top-tier U.S. venture capital firm and Hony Capital, with participation from IDG Capital and existing investor Monolith Capital. This AI-native investment technology company, which builds agent systems for capital markets, has completed its third round of financing within its first year of operation.
GIM is building an agent-based AI system designed to go beyond assisted investment research. The company describes this approach as a "Visionary Machine"—an AI system that generates, tests, and refines investment hypotheses through market data, feedback loops, and coordinated agents. Capital markets provide a rich learning environment where every investment hypothesis can be translated into action, and every action generates measurable feedback. This closed-loop learning mechanism enables intelligent systems to continuously improve judgment by learning from the market itself, rather than merely memorizing historical data.
GIM founder and CEO Jiahao Xu stated that investment AI is shifting from information assistance to autonomous hypothesis generation and testing. GIM is building systems capable of reasoning across market data, evaluating signals through feedback, and continuously evolving in real capital markets. The company is advancing on two fronts: a foundational model tailored specifically for capital market environments, and a multi-agent system that generates, validates, and evolves investment signals through a coordinated reasoning layer. Its flagship paper, CogAlpha, has been accepted by the main conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026 and recommended for oral presentation. The paper proposes a seven-layer agent architecture that progressively refines raw data into executable investment signals.
GIM's long-term vision revolves around "Shared Prosperity." As intelligent systems grow at different rates through compounding, the company believes the core question of the coming decades will be who owns and harnesses this growth. Its long-term bet is to build products that span from institutional strategies to personally accessible tools, transforming self-evolving intelligence into a widely held asset. This vision has attracted support from investors with long-term conviction in AI and capital markets. The current funding round brings together long-term investors with extensive experience in artificial intelligence, fintech, and global markets. Alongside its research efforts, GIM is also deploying AI-driven strategies and investment products in live trading across multiple asset classes and markets.
