Ant Group Leads Series C in AI Finance Startup to Develop Financial Agents

Shangjian Technology (Entropy Tech), an AI-powered financial research startup, has completed its Series C funding round, led by Ant Group, with Dongfang Guoxin and Qiaobei Capital participating. The two parties will deepen cooperation on AI finance agent development and financial vertical model training.

Founded in 2017, the company's core management team graduated from Tsinghua University. Its flagship product, AlphaEngine, is positioned as an AI partner for financial professionals. The product started as an aggregated search engine and evolved into a full-workflow investment research tool. In March 2026, the company launched AlphaClaw, a financial research agent, and in September 2026 released an institutional version of AlphaEngine along with a Skill marketplace for investment research.

Ant Group has been building its AI strategy around payments, finance, and health since early 2026. The investment marks a key move in Ant's push into financial research agents, adding to its broader AI finance ambitions.

So far, AlphaEngine has served over 100,000 institutional investors and more than 9,000 institutions, including public funds, brokerage research arms, insurance asset managers, and bank wealth management subsidiaries.