Rumor has it that China's startup ecosystem is buzzing. I am chatting with founders in China to uncover what entrepreneurship looks like in its various forms and what it takes. On Medium: https://medium.com/@techcelerated
CarbonSense (Decarbonization with One-Stop Green Factory Management)
CarbonSense, a green SaaS company, empowers global enterprises to achieve carbon neutrality with a digitalized carbon management system and aspires to set industry standards like “Siemens in green manufacturing”. Jerry Huang became the youngest biker to cross the Europe-Asia route upon graduating from United World College in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also dropped out of Harvard College. To him, finding a pursuit worth life commitment at one’s young age is a gift.
30 May 2022
Huoxian (White Hat Hackers Empowering Cloud Security)
Huoxian, a community-based cloud security platform, pilots a human-computer collaboration approach in security with crowdsourced testing empowered by 10,000+ white hat hackers. Ask Huawei, ByteDance, Baidu, Tencent, and JD and they can confirm the wisdom of the crowd here. Wu Di, once a co-founder of the largest community of white hat hackers, baked in Huoxian a spirit of “platform of white hats, by white hats, for white hats”. The company has refused to take cuts of commission fees from whit...
24 May 2022
Zion (No-Code Development Platform)
Zion, a drag-and-drop app builder, handles interaction design, business logic, and data models all through visualization for users, improving development efficiency by 10 times with everything automated from software design to delivery. Jiheng Lu, a Cornell graduate in computer science, spent time at Facebook and Groupon as a software engineer/tech lead to “stand on the shoulders of giants” to understand how the best tech companies operate before answering the call of entrepreneurship.
17 May 2022
Converge (Smarter Automation for ECommerce)
Converge, leveraging machine learning for smarter automation for eCommerce, predicts customer churn and future sales, and automatically takes actions that improve the bottom line. Lawrence Kurowski, a former M&A banker at Goldman Sachs in London, was first drawn to China while at Oxford. Now he’s back with a master’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, where he met his co-founder, and a plan to come back again with some business when the prime time arrives for Chin...
26 Apr 2022
Zuzhi (Public Org Charts for DAO and Future of Work)
Zuzhi, shining a light on the unsung heroes behind businesses’ closed doors, is building a network of public org charts for employees and envisions a future of work with transparent organizations. The bonus? Stronger recruiting, B2B sales, and, fingers crossed, deal flow.
21 Mar 2022
Edgenesis (AIoT OS in Mixed Reality)
Edgenesis, an open-source AIoT operating system builder, is leading a 0-to-1 breakthrough that allows thousands of IoT devices and their ecosystems to be virtualized and unified onto a single platform. Yongli Chen, previously working on the founding team of Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft alongside Breandan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes, is now pioneering ways to unleash the power of Kubernetes in IoT.
24 Feb 2022
Bobblehaus (Streetwear Multiverse for Global Gen Z)
Bobblehaus, a community-based retail built by 2 Chinese American women, challenges the fashion industry with sustainable, genderless clothing, a creative space for outliers to express inner absurdities, and a lifestyle with some playfulness. Ophelia Chen, once a “Best of the Best Team” at Bloomingdale’s responsible for tens of millions of purchases and budgeting, is bringing together global Gen-Z through Bobblehaus to celebrate unique, authentic identities through fashion, stories, and ...
14 Jan 2022
WRITE-BUG (Students’ GitHub and More)
WRITE-BUG, an open source community empowering students to grow technical skills, is redefining how GitHub could do more, from collaborative software development to code quality evaluation to knowledge management. Weichong Gan, the author of the bestseller Windows Hack Programming, dropped out of the Ph.D. program at the School of Software, Tsinghua University, the most prominent institution in China, to be a full-time entrepreneur.
31 Dec 2021
Matterverse (Shopify, Metaversed)
Matterverse, a forerunner in SaaS B2B eCommerce, is bringing your favorite luxury brands into the metaverse. Austin Zheng, the hipster on the founding team, is a serial entrepreneur who raised millions of dollars for consumer and technology startups in North America.
15 Dec 2021
Project M (A Memo for Passions and Processes)
Project M, a memo built for you to grow fragmented thoughts from the bottom up and for the community to compile trial and error into shared experience, is forging a new path forward for open sourcing passions and processes. Chenxu Wang, Founder of Project M, has developed a long-standing hobby of thinking about hobbies… and experimenting with them, from collecting hundreds of cereal boxes to hosting a tech podcast as well as a dark chocolate review series. A Rose-Hulman Institute of Technolo...
25 Nov 2021
Beange (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
Beange, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) builder that broke the world record, sets eyes on cargo, manned transportation, and an aviation lifestyle. Yao Zhang, Founder of Beange, graduated from Sciences Po with a master's degree in Political Science and Government and worked as a researcher at a think tank in France before diving back into his childhood dream of building aircraft. For five years, Yao received no income nor institutional funding and focused on one thing - p...
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