Ex-Black Sesame CMO Yang Yuxin joins Yao Song's robotics startup StridingAI as president
智东西 · wechat · 2026-09-29
Yang Yuxin, former CMO of Black Sesame Technologies (where he spent eight years through its HK IPO), has joined embodied-AI startup StridingAI as co-founder and president, overseeing global market expansion, ecosystem building and commercialization. He previously served as director and VP at ThunderSoft.
StridingAI was founded in early 2026 by serial entrepreneur Yao Song (co-founder of DeepPhi, acquired by Xilinx for $300M; co-CEO of Orienspace), CP Group, and Tsinghua assistant professor Yu Chao (first author of MAPPO, lead of the RLinf framework). The company builds world action models and RL to deploy humanoid robots in commercial and industrial settings, and raised nearly $100M in angel-round financing in June. CEO Yao Song called Yang's arrival the last key piece of the founding team.
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