# Catnip

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/catnip

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Shanghai, China
- Latest round: Angel (Jun 22, 2026)
- Investors on record: 3

## About

Based in Shanghai, China, and founded in 2025, Shanghai Xian Boundary Echo Technology Co., Ltd., trading as Catnip, is a developer of real-time streaming audio and video models, primarily targeting social interaction scenarios. In June 2026, Catnip raised an Angel funding from Future Capital Discovery Advisory (Hong Kong) Limited, HSG, with participation from other investors.

It provides development services for real-time streaming audio and video models, aiming to enable full-duplex real-time interaction. This allows AI to continuously generate data while simultaneously sensing user text, voice, and video feedback, achieving truly human-like continuous, interleaved, multimodal, two-way dialogue.

The company generates revenue by developing and providing real-time multimodal AI models and related software solutions, enabling enterprises to integrate continuous audio, video, and text interaction capabilities into social communication and interactive applications.

## Funding rounds

- Angel, Jun 22, 2026 — Future Capital Discovery Advisory (Hong Kong) Limited, HSG
- Seed, Dec 31, 2025 — Jinqiu Capital

## Investors

- Jinqiu Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/jinqiu-capital) — Seed
- Future Capital Discovery Advisory (Hong Kong) Limited (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/future-capital-discovery-advisory-hong-kong-limited) — Angel
- HSG (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/hsg) — Angel