# Vanus

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

- Industry: Internet
- Headquarters: Beijing, China
- Website: www.vanus.cn
- Latest round: Angel (Jan 5, 2026)
- Investors on record: 3

## About

Based in Beijing, China and founded in 2021, Linkall Inc., trading under the name Vanus, provides AI agent solutions and data middleware for the Software 7and Internet 8 industries. The company was established by Lucas (Qipeng Li), a former Alibaba executive and core member of the Apache RocketMQ open-source community, alongside a team from ByteDance, JD, and Oracle. The firm currently provides its "VanChat" selling agent to over 1,000 global brands and serves millions of consumers across markets such as the United States, India, and the United Kingdom. In January 2026, the firm closed a round of angel funding from Baidu Ventures and an individual investor.

The company provides two products, Vanus AI, and Vanus Connect. The Vanus AI provides enterprise private knowledge base construction, model fine-tuning, real-time corpus learning, and model agent execution. The Vanus AI also provides emotional chat people, SEO content generation, and IELTS essay scoring. The Vanus Connect has multiple connectors, including GitHub WebHook data to Slack, GitHub WebHook data to Google Sheets, and GitHub WebHook data to Snowflake.

The company’s revenue is generated by subscription fees and potential transaction facilitation models associated with its AI agent products.

The company plans to use the angel funding to build a sales and shopping agent product matrix connecting global brands with consumers and to launch the Dora platform that creates a data flywheel between merchants and shoppers.

## Funding rounds

- Angel, Jan 5, 2026 — Baidu Ventures
- Seed, Jul 31, 2023 — Eminence Ventures, Zhilian Jiyong Venture Capital

## Investors

- Eminence Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/eminence-ventures) — Seed
- Zhilian Jiyong Venture Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/zhilian-jiyong-venture-capital) — Seed
- Baidu Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/baidu-ventures) — Angel