Ai Motion
Entrepreneur First '18Hong Kong, HK · Founded 2018 · 2 known investors
AI Motion combined wearable sensors with real-time analytics to capture the movement, technique, and endurance of young athletes. Coaches and parents received reports used for individualized training, injury risk flags, and comparisons across a team. The company was acquired by HiteVision in 2023.
Also known as AI Motion Sports · AI Motion Sports Limited · AIMS · 迹动未来
Founders & leadership
Ai Motion was founded in 2018 by Elvis Wang and Sean Chen.
Investors · 2
Also in the syndicate · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026AI Motion Sports Limited (AIMS), also presented in Chinese as 迹动未来, is a youth sports education and sports management platform built on artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and motion recognition technology. The company describes itself as specializing in the digital transformation of K12 sports education in China, and positions its offering as an integrated hardware-and-software "AI sports platform," including the digital upgrading of traditional sports equipment and motion-sensor solutions for the industry.
The product set spans three areas described on the company site: AI sports solutions that use IoT, big data and AI to enable stratified, group and co-teaching in physical education classes and to auto-generate targeted after-class assignments from student e-records; an integrated digital platform for youth sports education aimed at education bureaus, schools and parents covering teaching, learning, practicing, competing, testing, examination and assessment, with handheld terminals used by teachers to capture student sports data; and a regional management platform "cockpit" providing web-based visualization of student sports performance across a district or school, plus a home-school interaction app for monitoring classroom training, assigning and submitting homework, after-class exercise and organizing tournaments. The company states it creates traceable physical health e-records for students and supports recurring routines such as "daily exercise," "weekly competition" and "monthly examination."
AIMS states it was founded out of the Joint Key State Laboratory of City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Founding story
AIMS states it was founded from the Joint Key State Laboratory of City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the stated aim of advancing the youth sports industry through technology and establishing next-generation standards in sports education. The HKAI Lab portfolio lists Yufan Elvis Wang as founder.
Business model
The company sells an integrated hardware-plus-software sports education platform, combining motion sensors and handheld teacher terminals with class-level teaching software, a regional management dashboard for administrators and a home-school interaction app; it also positions itself as a digital solution provider supplying AI motion sensors and the digital upgrading of traditional sports equipment to the wider industry. Specific pricing or contracting arrangements are not disclosed in the available sources.
Not disclosed in the available sources; the company describes selling an integrated hardware and software platform and solutions to education bureaus and schools.
Traction
Publicly documented traction consists mainly of recognitions rather than disclosed commercial metrics: "Most Promising Technology Enterprise" at the 21st China Hi-Tech Fair (2019), "Best Innovative Technology Project" at the 22nd China Hi-Tech Fair (2020), a Gold Medal at Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days 2021, designation in 2022 as a typical case/model of smart sports by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (with the General Administration of Sport), and election as a director committee member of the Digital Sports Committee of the China Sporting Goods Federation in 2023. No revenue, user or school deployment figures are disclosed in the sources.
Latest developments
In February 2023 the Digital Sports Committee of the China Sporting Goods Federation held its annual congress and AI Motion was named a director committee member. The company also reports being recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the General Administration of Sport of China as a typical model for AI sports, and frames its offering around Chinese education policies including "double reduction."
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
The company describes itself as a leading specialist in the digital transformation of K12 sports education in China. External signals in the sources include listing in the HKAI Lab portfolio under the EduTech sector at Pre-A stage, several Chinese and international awards, and appointment as a director committee member of the Digital Sports Committee of the China Sporting Goods Federation.
The company positions its combination of AI, IoT and motion recognition to enable "AI + Accurate Teaching" — data-driven stratified and group instruction inside PE class, automatic generation of individualized after-class assignments from student e-records, and real-time interaction among education bureaus, schools and families — together with national standard certification for student physical health test equipment and origins in a joint state key laboratory of City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Technology
Artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data and motion recognition technology applied to capturing student sports data, with sensor hardware and handheld terminals feeding classroom teaching tools, digital student physical-health records and web-based analytics dashboards. The company states its core machine learning algorithm was rated one of the "Top Ten Science and Innovation Projects" at the 2018 Great Bay Area Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and that it holds national standard certification under "Primary and secondary school sports equipment and venues Part 12: Student Physical health test equipment."
Go-to-market
The platform is marketed to public-sector education buyers — education bureaus and schools — with district- and school-level management dashboards, and extends to parents through a home-school interaction app. Visibility is reinforced through Chinese industry bodies and awards, including the China Hi-Tech Fair and the Digital Sports Committee of the China Sporting Goods Federation.
Education bureaus, primary and junior middle (K12) schools, physical education teachers, students and their parents in China.
Geography
Founded from a joint laboratory of City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and supported by the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Incu-Tech programme; commercial activity described is focused on elementary and junior middle schools in mainland China.
History
The company was established out of the Joint Key State Laboratory of City University of Hong Kong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its core machine learning algorithm was recognized at the 2018 Great Bay Area Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and it accumulated a series of Chinese and international awards between 2018 and 2022. It raised investment from SOSV, Entrepreneur First and China Prosperity Capital Fund and was supported by the HKSTP Incu-Tech programme; as of the HKAI Lab portfolio listing its fundraising stage was Pre-A. Company news items note a 2023 appointment to the Digital Sports Committee of the China Sporting Goods Federation.
Risks & controversies
No controversies are reported in the available sources. Note that several web results referencing "Motion AI" concern an unrelated US chatbot company acquired by HubSpot and are not applicable to this company.
Compiled by commissioned research from 4 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 7
launches, deals, and filingsAt the 2023 annual congress of the Digital Sports Committee of the China Sporting Goods Federation, held on 28 February 2023, AI Motion was rated as a director committee member of the committee.
The company states it holds the national standard certification of "Primary and secondary school sports equipment and venues Part 12: Student Physical health test equipment".
The company was recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with the General Administration of Sport of China, as a typical case/model for AI sports.
The company's core machine learning algorithm was rated among the "Top Ten Science and Innovation Projects" of the 2018 Great Bay Area Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 4
primary sources listed
- AI MOTION 迹动科技 - Sports defines the futureaimotionsports.com · web
4 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Ai Motion do?
- Hong Kong-founded AI, IoT and motion-recognition platform digitalizing K12 youth sports education in China.
- Who founded Ai Motion?
- Ai Motion was founded by Elvis Wang, Sean Chen in 2018.
- Who are Ai Motion's investors?
- Ai Motion's investors include Entrepreneur First.
- Where is Ai Motion headquartered?
- Ai Motion is headquartered in Hong Kong, HK.