David Cai

David Cai is a technology executive with extensive experience in artificial intelligence and investment. Currently serving as Vice President at Ant Group since 2024, David previously held the position of Managing Partner at StarRock Ventures from 2021 to 2023, focusing on early-stage AI and tech investments. David founded and served as CEO of DeepDot from 2019 to 2021, specializing in AI-based video content generation. Prior experience includes roles as a Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Google from 2013 to 2017, where David contributed to deep learning-based image content annotation, and as Co-Founder and CTO of VisualGraph, a visual search engine acquired by Pinterest in 2013. David holds an MBA from Stanford University, an MS in Computer Vision/Machine Learning from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University.