Albert Chen brought nearly twenty years of deep mobile-systems engineering experience to TopView.ai, the AI video-creation company he co-founded with CEO Jensen Wu in 2022. A graduate of the Harbin Institute of Technology, Chen’s career traces the evolution of mobile computing itself: he began working on input methods in 2003, later moved to UC Browser in 2009 where he focused on the web core team, and spent years migrating systems across Symbian, iOS, and Android before eventually working on UC’s WebView SDK — experience at what industry coverage describes as one of Asia’s top five tech companies.
As Co-Founder and CTO, Chen has applied that systems-engineering background to a very different problem: making AI-generated video and product photography accessible to e-commerce businesses without requiring them to write prompts, hire actors, or shoot original footage. TopView’s platform uses proprietary AI and digital-human technology to let brands generate UGC-style marketing videos and product images at scale, with AI avatars capable of physically interacting with products on screen. Since launching in Singapore, the platform has grown to serve more than a million users, according to the company, expanding its reach across a large international customer base.
TopView’s growth attracted institutional backing quickly. In August 2025, Kamet Capital led an $8.5 million Series A investment into the company, and it later closed a further Series A round in early 2026, bringing total funding to roughly $14 million. The company also caught the attention of Andreessen Horowitz, which featured TopView in its public thesis on AI avatar technology — notable traction for a company not yet two years past its founding at that point.
Based in Singapore, Chen has been recognized among a cohort of entrepreneurs reshaping Southeast Asia’s AI landscape, and continues to focus on optimizing the technical infrastructure behind AI-driven video production, translating his long mobile-engineering career into the backbone of one of the region’s fastest-growing AI content platforms.
