About

Built by a team that ships.

Vesti is local-first AI memory infrastructure, built in Nanjing by an interdisciplinary team from Nanjing University, Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The team

Seven disciplines, one memory stack.

Seven core members, six full-time — spanning computational biology, software engineering, AI, finance, sociology, philosophy and information technology. The team has worked together for two to three years, and went from zero to launch in 63 days and 463 commits.

Company

Company: Xinji Qundao (Nanjing) Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.
Founded: April 28, 2026 · Jianye District tech incubator, Nanjing
Focus: Local-first AI memory infrastructure and downstream agent services
Open source: Core code under MIT · 388 GitHub stars
IP: 2 software copyrights pending · 1 patent
Business: Freemium since 2026-07 — 100+ paying users in month one, 52% retention

Core members

He Feng · 何锋

Founder & CEO

Computational Biology, Nanjing University

iGEM gold medalist and Best in AI track as student team captain. Leads system architecture and the agent pipeline. Holds one patent.

Cao Zheng · 曹政

CTO · Systems Architecture

Software Engineering, Nanjing University

Cross-platform framework engineering intern at Meituan, shipping across iOS, Android and HarmonyOS. President of NJU's OpenHarmony club.

Su Yicheng · 苏祎成

Product Architecture · Agent

Philosophy & Statistics, Fudan University

Designed the agent decision chain and the classification confidence system. Built the Prompt-as-Code version management workflow.

Gong Zihan · 龚子涵

AI Engineering · RAG

Finance & AI, Fudan University

Owns the local RAG retrieval pipeline — Recall@5 of 1.000, with 10k-vector scans in under 40 ms.

Huang Chenxi · 黄晨熙

Design · UX

Sociology, Nanjing University

Leads user research and product visuals. Built the feedback loop across 800+ seed users.

Fan Sizhe · 范思哲

Operations · Growth

Information Technology, Nanjing University

iFlytek campus ambassador and Tencent youth sci-tech product manager trainee. Team captain at the AI Hackathon Tour national league.

Wang Xinyu · 王馨雨

R&D

Direct PhD track, Computational Biology, SJTU

Two national bronze awards at the China International College Students' Innovation Competition and two national second prizes at the National Undergraduate Life Science Competition.

Milestones

2026.02
Project kickoff
An interdisciplinary team comes together — core development done in 63 days.
2026.04
Launch and gold
Live on the Chrome Web Store. Gold Medal, best in track, at the AI Hackathon Tour national finals — with Academician Zhou Zhihua among the presenters. The company incorporates in the Jianye incubator.
2026.05
GOSIM Paris
Selected for the GOSIM Paris 2026 Frontier Creators Spotlight; exhibits at Station F and wins the Audience Favorite Award.
2026.06
Awards and seed funding
Gold Medal (StepFun special gold) at Nankesong S2. First prize — top of all entries — at the Jianye Entrepreneurship Competition. Delta X seed funding secured.
2026.07
Product matrix and paid plans
Extension, desktop app, Skills and MCP ship as one matrix. Paid plans go live: 100+ paying users in the first month, 52% retention.