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Chang Zi Qian

Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

Founder & CEO, INTELLLEX
Venture Partner, Future Frontier Capital
Columnist, South China Morning Post
NYAA Gold Award Holder (2007 Cohort)

Chang Zi Qian is a pioneering legal tech entrepreneur under the sponsorship of Professor Robert Merges
and policy innovator whose career bridges law, (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law,
technology, venture capital, and public service. With Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology).
a commitment to advancing the legal profession and
building community resilience, he exemplifies the Zi Qian’s other interests lie in exploring the
GAHA ethos of ‘Service Beyond Gold.’ development of contemporary Chinese identity. He
serves as a Columnist for the South China Morning
As Co-Founder and CEO of INTELLLEX (2015–2025), Post, where his “Being Chinese” column explores
Zi Qian built a venture-backed generative AI legal identity and culture across borders.
tech startup specialising in knowledge search and
categorisation software. Under his leadership, Zi Qian’s service extends to the community through
INTELLLEX raised approximately US$5 million in leadership in Hwa Chong Alumni Youth Chapter,
funding from Thomson Reuters, government-linked Business China, and the People’s Association, where
venture funds, and Asian family offices. He was he has mentored youth and facilitated cultural
selected as a software vendor by Singapore’s Ministry exchanges.
of Law. His work also resulted in a PCT patent on AI-
driven document tagging and retrieval. His achievements have been recognised
internationally, including being shortlisted as one
In 2025, Zi Qian moved to the USA to further his of the 100 Leaders of Tomorrow at the St. Gallen
studies at the University of California, Berkeley Symposium (2011, 2014) and winning the Monroe
School of Law, where he received his Master of Laws E. Price International Media Law Moot Court
(LL.M.) At Berkeley, Zi Qian served as a Lead Teaching Competition (2010).
Assistant and Mentor at UC Berkeley’s Deep Tech
Innovation Lab (DTIL), guiding interdisciplinary Through his entrepreneurship, policy leadership, and
teams of engineers, lawyers, and MBAs to cross-cultural engagement, Chang Zi Qian continues
commercialise early-stage technologies. Together to inspire future generations of lawyers, innovators,
with his colleagues at the DTIL, Zi Qian took on and community leaders.
the role of Founding Venture Partner and General
Counsel of Future Frontier Capital, a pre-seed frontier
technology fund based in Berkeley.

Currently, he serves as a Visiting Scholar at UC
Berkeley School of Law, researching the intersection
of legal practice, AI, and professional development

14 30 Years of Service and Leadership