Agentic investment start-up Grace Investment Machine (GIM) has closed $20 million in Series A funding to transition its multi-agent capital market trading software into live market deployment.
The round was co-led by Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital and an unnamed venture capital firm in the US. New investor IDG Capital also participated alongside repeat backer Monolith Capital.
It’s understood that GIM has now raised over $30 million across three funding rounds since being founded by CEO Jiahao Xu in July last year. Other backers currently include 5Y Capital, SAIF Partners, and Wuyuan Capital.
The Beijing-based start-up is developing an autonomous system that can generate, test, and execute its own investment hypotheses in capital markets, while independently analysing market data to discover and deploy trades directly.
“GIM is building systems that can reason across market data, evaluate signals through feedback, and improve over time in real-world capital markets,” explains Xu, a former venture investor with Neumann Advisors.
A company statement announcing the raise notes that the Series A funds will be used to “build products – from institutional strategies to individual-accessible vehicles – that turn self-evolving intelligence into a widely held asset, rather than a concentrated advantage”.
GIM is now working to bring “AI-driven strategies and investment products into live validation across multiple asset classes and markets”, alongside research efforts, the statement concludes.