Caitlin is a Wharton MBA and Northwestern alumnae, brought over a decade of experience in AI commercialization, go-to-market, product, and finance (PE & VC). She has firsthand experience in building AI companies and products with AI thought leaders such as Stanford AI Professor and the founder of Coursera and Google Brain, as well as the Founder of Tencent AI Lab and the Former Head of Product Creative AI at TikTok in early founding teams.
Ms. Cai has also served as an executive director at a unicorn AI company XVerse (building LLM + Multimodal AI Models and AI + 3D Infrastructure to supercharge content creation and consumption), backed by Sequoia, Temasek, Tencent, Hillhouse, and as the founding leadership of an AI+Metaverse fund backed by Hillhouse and XVerse. As an early AI commercialization practitioner, Ms. Cai has led go-to-market efforts at Landing AI, a cutting-edge AI computer vision platform leading domain-specific Large Vision Models. Ms. Cai has been a builder and investor and has served on the advisory boards of multiple AI companies, cultivating unique experiences and insights into the US and Asia AI ecosystem.
Ms. Cai is deeply passionate about Creative AI and has been building AI products and companies to unleash human creativity. She advocates for in using technology to build products and experiences that enhance positive mental well-being, foster compassion, and inspire wonder, while strengthening human connections and communities.
As a lifelong learner, her Superpower lies in her ability to learn and bridge the gaps of interdisciplinary domains and cultures.