Kai Cheng is Co-Founder and CEO of CREAO AI, a Cupertino-based agentic AI platform pioneering the closed-loop model where AI builds tools, runs them autonomously, and humans simply steer.

Kai earned a Master of Arts in Statistics from Columbia University and spent a decade architecting production-grade AI systems for over 250 Fortune 500 enterprise clients.

Kai believes the real AI bottleneck is not intelligence but the gap between a chatbot answering questions and an agent autonomously executing work at scale. His philosophy: execution and internal adoption are stronger competitive moats than any product concept alone.

Since co-founding CREAO AI in 2024, Kai has led the company through multiple pivots, raising $25M across three rounds in under a year, with the latest $10M round led by Prosperity7 Ventures, the investment arm of Aramco Ventures.

Under Kai's leadership, CREAO AI surpassed 200,000 users within months of its commercial launch in September 2025, with a lean 20-person team operating at the output capacity of a far larger organization.