Former miHoYo Executive Launches LeapMind Growth, Secures Angel+ Round Led by CMC Capital

Former miHoYo Executive Embarks on New Venture as AI Growth Sector Welcomes a New Player

On April 29, 2026, AI-native growth agent company LeapMind Growth officially announced the completion of its angel+ funding round, led by CMC Capital. The proceeds will primarily be used for R&D iteration of its core product GrowthGPT, expansion of its product and engineering team, and early-stage market development.

LeapMind Growth was founded in April 2025 by Ma Ruping (Rubin), former head of global user growth at miHoYo and former head of the growth strategy center at Kuaishou. Ma previously led user growth operations at TikTok and has spearheaded user growth initiatives totaling over $5 billion in scale. He is one of the few practitioners in China with triple growth experience spanning gaming, short-form video, and social platforms.

Core Product GrowthGPT: Letting AI Take Over the Entire Growth Pipeline

The company's core product, GrowthGPT, is positioned as an "AI-native, self-iterating growth agent." Its central philosophy is that users need only set growth objectives and boundary conditions, and GrowthGPT will autonomously handle the entire subsequent process — from strategy formulation to execution and continuous optimization.

Specifically, GrowthGPT covers the complete growth execution pipeline:

• Cross-platform data diagnostics: The system automatically connects to multi-platform data sources, diagnoses growth bottlenecks in real time, and pinpoints problem areas with precision.
• Creative insights and content iteration: Based on data analysis results, it automatically generates creative direction recommendations and drives iterative optimization of content assets.
• Automated execution and performance optimization: It directly issues execution commands, completing a closed loop of ad placement strategy adjustments and performance tracking.

Notably, GrowthGPT features a built-in budget safety mechanism that effectively prevents overspending risks, while using incremental attribution analysis to ensure every dollar of budget can be quantitatively evaluated. This design reflects the team's hands-on experience in large-scale growth management — in real business environments, "being able to spend" and "spending wisely" are equally important.

Star-Studded Team: Core Talent from ByteDance, miHoYo, and Kuaishou

In terms of team composition, LeapMind Growth's core members all come from leading internet companies including ByteDance, miHoYo, Kuaishou, and Meituan. The core team combines expertise in hyper-scale growth management, AI systems engineering, and global publishing.

Founder Ma Ruping's resume is particularly impressive. From TikTok to Kuaishou to miHoYo, he experienced the golden era of Chinese internet companies going global, deeply participating in the transformation of user growth from "manual experience-driven" to "data and algorithm-driven." Now he has chosen to start his own company, distilling these experiences into an AI-native product system that seeks to use Agents to redefine the paradigm of growth work.

Market Insight: Growth Execution Is Being Reshaped by AI

From an industry trend perspective, the emergence of LeapMind Growth is no coincidence. Over the past two years, AI Agent deployment has accelerated across vertical sectors, and "growth" — as the most critical business function for internet companies and one that is most dependent on data and execution efficiency — is naturally suited for Agent-based transformation.

Traditional growth teams face several major pain points: first, fragmented cross-platform data leads to delayed decision-making; second, creative production and ad optimization are highly dependent on human experience and difficult to replicate at scale; third, the execution and feedback cycle for growth strategies is too long, causing teams to miss optimal windows of opportunity. GrowthGPT aims to connect these steps and create an automated closed loop through AI Agents, fundamentally improving the efficiency and predictability of growth execution.

CMC Capital's decision to invest as early as the angel+ round also reflects the capital market's keen interest in vertical AI Agent application sectors. Compared to the "arms race" in general-purpose large models, vertical Agent companies that focus on specific business scenarios and possess industry know-how are becoming the next investment hotspot.

Outlook: From Tool to "Digital Growth Employee"

Ma Ruping has previously stated publicly that GrowthGPT's ultimate goal is not to build a "better growth tool," but to create a true "digital growth employee" — one that can think, make decisions, and execute like a seasoned growth expert, while possessing the speed and scale advantages unique to machines.

With the completion of this funding round, LeapMind Growth will further accelerate GrowthGPT's product refinement and market validation. In 2026, a year of flourishing AI Agents, whether this startup born from a top-tier growth team can truly realize its vision of "making growth happen automatically" is well worth the industry's continued attention.