Sapience, a Beijing-based AI livestreaming service provider, announced a strategic investment of tens of millions of yuan from Alibaba Group’s Fliggy.
The funding will accelerate Sapience’s R&D and deployment of intelligent livestreaming technologies, further expanding AI adoption in sectors such as e-commerce and cultural tourism.
Founded in February 2024, Sapience provides customized AI livestreaming solutions for clients in e-commerce, hospitality, and cultural tourism, helping businesses enhance livestreaming efficiency and user experience. Its core team comprises AI and livestreaming experts and currently holds 27 registered trademarks, 5 patents, and 2 software copyrights.
Sapience’s key technologies—including AI large models, NLP, intelligent content generation, real-time interaction systems, and livestream management tools—are tailored to the hospitality industry, building end-to-end AI livestreaming capabilities from content generation to interactive conversion. With accelerating digital transformation and rising market demand, these technologies have broad application prospects.
Sapience has partnered with several leading e-commerce platforms and cultural tourism enterprises. Moving forward, the company will keep innovating around the “AI + livestreaming” ecosystem to create smarter, more efficient marketing solutions.
As a strategic investor, Fliggy brings extensive hotel resources and significant traffic advantages. The partnership will leverage Fliggy’s user base and supply advantages to boost Sapience’s product adoption and market reach, while enabling the startup to deliver higher-quality hotel-related services to Fliggy users, achieving mutual growth through resource sharing.
