SynBioBeta Speaker
Fan Yang
Partner
Capital O
May 2026, SynBioBeta
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Yang Fan is a Partner at Capital O, a frontier technology VC firm, and the author of the influential newsletter "范阳," (Yang Fan's Blog), reaching over 80,000 founders, scientists, investors and policy-makers.
At Capital O, he builds China's pioneering Frontier Research Organization (FRO), leading a multidisciplinary team that invests in foundational infrastructure for AI-powered science, especially in life sciences. Core to this effort are initiatives like the "Researchers-In-Residence" and "AI Science Launchpad" programs, designed to identify and co-create with scientific talent from the earliest stages.
His newsletter serves as a critical node in the Chinese tech ecosystem, providing "outlier thinking and edge ideas" on the intersection of AI, science, finance, and media. His career bridges the U.S. and China, having previously founded a shared-economy company and a fungal synbio startup, and he was among the first to introduce U.S. synthetic biology frontiers to China. He also runs the Chinese edition of Asimov Press in his spare time. Areas of Expertise: Automated Scientific Discovery Systems ；Applied Open & Citizen Science；Novel Venture Capital and Research Models
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