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Avenir Group, the investment group originating from Huobi founder Li Lin’s family office, has led a $20 million seed funding round in Inference Research, a Hong Kong-based AI-native quantitative trading firm focused on the convergence of digital assets and traditional finance. Founded by Luke Li, a former co-founder and Head of Markets at digital asset platform Amber Group who previously worked at Morgan Stanley and holds a Master’s in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, Inference Research combines AI infrastructure with institutional trading discipline to address challenges in asset pricing and liquidity provision across digital and traditional markets. The capital will be used to scale the firm’s proprietary AI systems and infrastructure and to recruit quantitative researchers, engineers, and trading talent. Avenir Group’s role extends beyond capital provision to include incubation support, aligning with its broader strategy of bridging traditional finance and the digital asset ecosystem.
About Avenir Group: The Hong Konb-based Li Lin single-family office
Avenir Group is a Hong Kong-based investment group founded in 2023 by Li Lin, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange Huobi. Li Lin founded Huobi in 2013 and grew it into one of the world’s largest digital asset exchanges before selling the platform to entrepreneur Justin Sun in 2022 following China’s ban on cryptocurrency trading. He subsequently established Avenir Group as an institutionalized family office with operations across Hong Kong, the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, and Singapore. The group operates through four business lines: Avenir Capital (asset management), Avenir Crypto (crypto-focused quantitative fund of funds), Avenir Innovation (incubation), and Avenir Foundation. In September 2024, Avenir Crypto launched a $500 million quantitative fund of funds investing in USDT, Bitcoin, and Ethereum through top quantitative trading teams. Avenir Group describes itself as Asia’s largest institutional holder of Bitcoin ETFs and manages over $1 billion in assets. In October 2025, Li Lin was reported to be spearheading a $1 billion Ethereum-focused digital asset trust alongside prominent Asian crypto investors including Fenbushi Capital co-founder Shen Bo and HashKey Group CEO Xiao Feng.
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Article Source: PRNewswire (09.02.2026)
Last Updated on February 16, 2026
