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YGT Entrepreneurs of 2024
Junxing Huang
Founder and CEO of CycleWatt Co., Ltd.
CycleWatt is an innovative energy storage solution provider, utilizing its proprietary full-stack control algorithms to develop energy storage systems based on retired automotive power batteries. These systems are over 50% cheaper than new battery systems. As one of the few global companies capable of full-package tiered utilization, CycleWatt holds 8 invention patents. The company has already completed domestic demonstration projects and is in discussions with several mainstream car manufacturers and recycling plants.
Zhengyang Liu
Founder and CEO of Shanghai Fangman IoT Technology Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Fangman integrates research and development, production, sales, and technical services, promoting systematic, intelligent, and standardized agricultural planting solutions, system equipment, and services worldwide. "CubesFarm" aims to achieve efficient and continuous production of plants annually through precise environmental control measures within the facility. It fully utilizes modern industrial automation, biotechnology, nutrient solutions, cultivation, and information technology to automatically control environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, light, CO2 concentration, and plant nutrients throughout the entire process of plant breeding, seedling cultivation, growth, and harvesting through computers.
Jian Shi
Chairman and CEO of Shenzhen Bonan New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
Bona New Energy was established in 2022 and is a chain leading innovative technology enterprise in the field of new energy with independent intellectual property rights, focusing on the research and development of positive and negative electrode materials and battery cells for sodium ion batteries, as well as the overall solution and industrialization of energy storage. It has multiple original innovative core technologies and invention patents for sodium ion batteries, and has a complete ecosystem of sodium ion batteries.
Li Xu
Co-Founder and CEO of Kangfen Ecolution Biology and Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Kangfen uses multi-layer bioreactors to help large food enterprises solve the problem of by-products in food processing. Food processing by-products (such as Okara, Brewer's spent grains, Coffee grounds, and other plant raw materials) are converted into organic new materials with high organic matter, high humic acid, and high organic nutrients through Kangfen's net zero carbon bioreactors technology, and returned to green low-carbon agriculture (crop planting, aquaculture, animal husbandry, etc.), and further returned to food production enterprises to achieve net zero carbon circulation in the food industry chain.
Tao Yue
Founder of Micro-Nano Chip Innovation Technology Co., Ltd
This project is the first in China to create a vascularized organ-on-a-chip with a microvascular network, realizing a functional in vitro three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip physiological model, providing a more advanced, accurate and reliable technology for drug screening. In response to the three major difficulties faced by organ-on-a-chip currently, including difficulty in manufacturing, difficulty in control and difficulty in use, a number of core technologies and products such as vascularization process of organ-on-a-chip, high-precision control method for metabolic function and intelligent user operation platform have been developed.
Yihao Zhu
Co-Founder and CEO of i2Cool Limited
i2Cool is a green and energy-efficient technology pioneer specializing in passive radiative cooling. Originating in a research team at the City University of Hong Kong, the company has brought together a world-class R&D team composed of top 2% leading professors and doctors. i2Cool’s core products include the electricity-free cooling paint (iPaint) and electricity-free cooling film (iFilm). By focusing on electricity-free cooling technology, the company is dedicated to providing comprehensive energy-saving cooling solutions for low-carbon cities and green communities.
YGT Entrepreneurs of 2023
Yuan Fu
Founder & Chairman, Shanghai Yo-i Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Established in 2016, Yo-i's core team members come from leading domestic and international companies such as McKinsey, General Electric, Intel, IBM, Baosteel, Huawei, and Shanghai Electric. The company focuses on creating energy-efficient industrial internet services to empower energy conservation and carbon reduction in Chinese industries, enhancing quality and efficiency. Yo-i aims to reduce costs and improve efficiency by 1% of China's GDP through "deep knowledge, new technologies, and strong operations." It is building an industrial data operating system that facilitates data connectivity across industries and empowers industrial artificial intelligence, specifically targeting process manufacturing with comprehensive digital and intelligent product solutions and services.
Huawai Wu
Founder, Orca Energy Development Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2022, Orca Energy's core team members come from prestigious institutions such as Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The company specializes in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology for negative carbon emissions, directly capturing CO2 from the atmosphere. Leveraging breakthroughs in new materials technology based on fixed organic amine adsorbents, Orca Energy has developed a novel low-energy consumption cyclic process based on steam-assisted temperature swing adsorption. This process achieves high adsorption capacity, rapid adsorption kinetics, and cycle stability even under extreme low-concentration ambient air conditions, enabling "low-cost, distributed, and scalable" carbon capture solutions, thus providing an efficient, negative carbon technology pathway for climate governance.
Hui Wang
Chairman & CEO, Shanghai Gwalrus Biotech Co., Ltd.
Gwalrus Biomaterials is a national high-tech enterprise and a specialized, innovative company in Shanghai, with expertise in cutting-edge synthetic biology technology and biobased materials research and development. The company utilizes advanced next-generation synthetic biology techniques to construct supercell factories, pursuing a dual-matrix development model of "synthetic materials + industrial application." This approach enables comprehensive coverage of the entire industrial chain, from "biomass - lactic acid - polylactic acid - products - rPLA recycling." The company has successfully developed a series of biobased materials, represented by PLA (polylactic acid), which are widely applicable in fast-moving consumer goods, daily chemicals, food and beverages, agriculture, retail, textiles, biomedicine, and automotive manufacturing.
Shumiao Feng
Founder & Chairman, Hebei Jiuzhi Technology Co., Ltd.
Jiuzhi Technology offers low-carbon, high-efficiency resource solutions for organic solid waste at the source. Addressing common issues in traditional organic waste treatment processes—such as high energy consumption, large land footprint, severe secondary pollution, and low resource utilization—Jiuzhi Technology implements a green biomanufacturing distributed solution. The company has pioneered a low-carbon, resource-saving ecological model that avoids waste transportation, landfilling, or incineration, achieving a "daily clean and tidy" approach. Jiuzhi Technology has developed biological information equipment combined with an internet platform to tackle pollution reduction and carbon emissions.
Tianqi Huang
Founder, Mentor (Shanghai) Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.
Mentor, headquartered in Jiading, Shanghai, is a water ecological restoration solution provider. The company's technical team boasts over 40 years of extensive experience in this specialized field. Mentor focuses on electrocatalytic technology, extending its applications to PEM electrolysis for hydrogen production and ozone generation technology for air and water sources. These technologies are primarily utilized in industrial water treatment and drinking water purification, and they also serve as core components for hydrogen-oxygen respirators.
Juejun Xue
Founder & CEO, SkiteLight
SkiteLight is a micro-display technology company incubated at the University of Cambridge, pioneering a new MicroLED display technology path based on innovative perovskite MicroLED optoelectronic materials and high-precision inkjet printing technology. The company is dedicated to addressing the growing demand for micro-displays and commercial AR/VR applications. The team has developed highly stable, high-optical-performance perovskite materials, opening the door to the commercialization of perovskite as optoelectronic display materials. Their scalable solutions tackle three major pain points in current displays: brightness, energy efficiency, and lifespan, achieving a 100-fold increase in micro-display brightness while enhancing luminous stability to 10,000 hours.
Xiaoyu Zhao
CEO of SuperVision Medicine
SuperVision Medicine is the world's only company capable of achieving 4D visualization of drug metabolism. The company aims to create the most advanced intelligent quantitative 4D subcellular molecular-level microscopic system to support new drug development, safeguard precision medicine, and enhance human health. SuperVision Medicine's unique algorithms elevate semi-quantitative Raman analysis to a fully quantitative level without the need for staining or sample preparation. Its one-click analysis software can simultaneously visualize over 12 types of biomolecular components, providing real-time, comprehensive analysis of biological samples, 4D observations of organoid models, and the complete drug metabolism process within real human tissues.
YGT Entrepreneurs of 2022
Jianxun Cui
Founder & Chairman of Flance (Beijing) Nanotechnology Co., Ltd
Flance Nanotechnology was founded in Zhongguancun, Beijing, by overseas Chinese experts and professional-level senior engineers who have worked in France for many years. The core team members come from well-known scientific institutions including MIT and Tsinghua University, with rich experience in nanomaterials R&D and industry. Flance focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of high-purity new nanomaterial equipment and the green mass production of nanomaterial, filling the bottleneck of high-purity new nanomaterial technology in China and elevating itself to the international leading level. Flance is committed to becoming the international Intel in the field of nanomaterials, providing global customers with nanomaterials products and solutions that deepen their competitive advantages.
Akinse Fela Buyi
Founder of SALUBATA
The plastic plague in many countries around the world is visible and inescapable. At SALUBATA, our mission is to invent lifestyle technologies that help people and the planet. We presently occupy a niche where we repurpose customisable shoes from ocean-deemed plastic wastes. To put simply, we make shoes from plastic waste. We imagined reaching just 1% of the global footwear market in 5 years, with this, we’d be able to impact over 280,000 women, save about 6.5 billion barrels of crude oil which could have been burnt and repurpose over 6 billion PET plastic wastes to shoes.
Yuxuan Lan
Vice CEO of PhaBuilder
PhaBuilder was founded in February 2021 by Professor Chen Guoqiang, director of the Center for Synthesis and Systems Biology at Tsinghua University. It mainly uses the "Next Generation Industrial Biotechnology, NGIB" for a "new generation of green super factory of cell" to develop and produce a variety of high-value-added products such as biodegradable material PHA, pharmaceutical intermediates tetrahydro pyrimidine, and Nylon 56 precursor pentane diamine.
Qianrun Li
Founder of AOK Cold Chain
AOK Cold Chain is a technology enterprise specializing in the development and manufacturing of new cold storage technology and series cold chain equipment. The new technology on passive cold storage cold chain developed by AOK Cold Chain saves up to 80% more energy than traditional equipment.
Zijing Li Liz
Co-Founder & COO of MIMICRETE LTD
MIMICRETE LTD is a Cambridge-based technology company co-founded by Cambridge PhDs and postdocs, providing a new approach to the development of sustainable buildings. The company's core technology comes from years of laboratory research and development, based on 3D printing and biomimetic design, equipping building materials with intelligent self-healing functions. The intelligent system senses and locates the cracks and releases healing agents as they develop, eliminating the need for manual intervention throughout the repair process. After healing, it can restore the needs of various indicators of the engineering department, which greatly extends the service life of the infrastructure.
Michael Pratt
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Qnetic
Qnetic is targeting a future market, which is ‘daily energy shifting’. This is where we collect renewable energy when it is available and discharge it later in the day, when it is needed. Qnetic is a mechanical battery, based on flywheel technology, whose principles are extremely simple: we charge the system by converting electricity into rotation and hold the energy as momentum. To get electricity back out, the process is simply reversed, very simple. Qnetic has built up a fantastic team with breadth and depth of experience and expertise already covering many critical functions of the company and a global footprint.
Haoran Wu
Founder & CEO of Sengong New Material Technology
Founded in 2018, Sengong New Materials Technology focuses on the research and development of new PVA functional materials and is dedicated to the upgrading, innovation and replacement of traditional plastic packaging materials to reduce the use of plastic products. Sengong has innovative know-how in the development and production of new materials for functional membranes, biodegradable packaging materials and new water-soluble packaging materials. Sengong’s products have been widely used in industrial production, agricultural cultivation and consumer goods manufacturing.
Jianxun Cui
Founder & Chairman of Flance (Beijing) Nanotechnology Co., Ltd
Flance Nanotechnology was founded in Zhongguancun, Beijing, by overseas Chinese experts and professional-level senior engineers who have worked in France for many years. The core team members come from well-known scientific institutions including MIT and Tsinghua University, with rich experience in nanomaterials R&D and industry. Flance focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of high-purity new nanomaterial equipment and the green mass production of nanomaterial, filling the bottleneck of high-purity new nanomaterial technology in China and elevating itself to the international leading level. Flance is committed to becoming the international Intel in the field of nanomaterials, providing global customers with nanomaterials products and solutions that deepen their competitive advantages.
Akinse Fela Buyi
Founding Chancellor & Chairman of the Board NYU Shanghai
The plastic plague in many countries around the world is visible and inescapable. At SALUBATA, our mission is to invent lifestyle technologies that help people and the planet. We presently occupy a niche where we repurpose customisable shoes from ocean-deemed plastic wastes. To put simply, we make shoes from plastic waste. We imagined reaching just 1% of the global footwear market in 5 years, with this, we’d be able to impact over 280,000 women, save about 6.5 billion barrels of crude oil which could have been burnt and repurpose over 6 billion PET plastic wastes to shoes.
Yuxuan Lan
Vice CEO of PhaBuilder
PhaBuilder was founded in February 2021 by Professor Chen Guoqiang, director of the Center for Synthesis and Systems Biology at Tsinghua University. It mainly uses the "Next Generation Industrial Biotechnology, NGIB" for a "new generation of green super factory of cell" to develop and produce a variety of high-value-added products such as biodegradable material PHA, pharmaceutical intermediates tetrahydro pyrimidine, and Nylon 56 precursor pentane diamine.
Qianrun Li
Founder of AOK Cold Chain
AOK Cold Chain is a technology enterprise specializing in the development and manufacturing of new cold storage technology and series cold chain equipment. The new technology on passive cold storage cold chain developed by AOK Cold Chain saves up to 80% more energy than traditional equipment.
Zijing Li Liz
Co-Founder & COO of MIMICRETE LTD
MIMICRETE LTD is a Cambridge-based technology company co-founded by Cambridge PhDs and postdocs, providing a new approach to the development of sustainable buildings. The company's core technology comes from years of laboratory research and development, based on 3D printing and biomimetic design, equipping building materials with intelligent self-healing functions. The intelligent system senses and locates the cracks and releases healing agents as they develop, eliminating the need for manual intervention throughout the repair process. After healing, it can restore the needs of various indicators of the engineering department, which greatly extends the service life of the infrastructure.
Michael Pratt
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Qnetic
Qnetic is targeting a future market, which is ‘daily energy shifting’. This is where we collect renewable energy when it is available and discharge it later in the day, when it is needed. Qnetic is a mechanical battery, based on flywheel technology, whose principles are extremely simple: we charge the system by converting electricity into rotation and hold the energy as momentum. To get electricity back out, the process is simply reversed, very simple. Qnetic has built up a fantastic team with breadth and depth of experience and expertise already covering many critical functions of the company and a global footprint.
Haoran Wu
Founder & CEO of Sengong New Material Technology
Founded in 2018, Sengong New Materials Technology focuses on the research and development of new PVA functional materials and is dedicated to the upgrading, innovation and replacement of traditional plastic packaging materials to reduce the use of plastic products. We are committed to upgrading, innovating and replacing traditional plastic packaging materials in order to reduce the use of plastic products. SenGong has innovative know-how in the development and production of new functional film materials, biodegradable packaging materials and new water-soluble packaging materials, which are widely used in industrial production, agricultural cultivation and consumer goods manufacturing.
YGT Entrepreneurs of 2021
Tengyu Lin
Founder & CEO of HurRain Nanotech
HurRain focuses on developing high-functioning nanomaterials to transform our lives by providing innovative solutions to combat global warming and mitigate the growing scarcity of clean drinking water. HurRain is empowering a better life for all human beings around the world.
Wei Yu
CEO of XIAOZAO Tech
Xiaozao Tech developed a set of zero-emission, carbon-consumption, and ecologically recyclable microalgae breeding programs based on various intellectual properties, including high-purity EPA extraction, algae extraction EPA. Notably, high-purity EPA plays a unique role in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Its offerings have promising prospects in the pharmaceutical market and food raw materials sectors as well as advancing the healthy development of human beings.
Mingkun Yu
CEO & President of the Board, EARTH-IOT
The Earth-iot air-ground integrated smart security system is supported by cutting-edge technologies such as “driverless vehicle + drone + 5G + AI algorithm + edge algorithm + wireless charging + cloud platform” to provide a proprietary three-dimensional security solution. The integrated three-dimensional security of air and ground will make our world safer.
Eloisa De Castra
CEO of ENERPOLY
Enerpoly is building a future where everyone has access to clean energy. Through our pioneering zinc-ion batteries, Enerpoly will drive a transition to the electric grid of the future – one powered by resilient and renewable energy – that has the capacity to support the growth of electric vehicles and offer empowered consumers the choice to support clean energy sources. Through our commitment to honest innovation, we provide everyone with future energy storage solutions.
Vlad Lorgulescu
COO of SWISSPOD
Swisspod is developing a technology platform that enables ultra-high-speed transportation systems. While optimizing the energy efficiency of current high-speed transportation, Swisspod envisions a continental map of travel routes that will facilitate collaboration, accelerate human progress, and create a prosperous future.
Stephane Vernede
CEO & CTO of ENWISE
Enwise provides clean and affordable energy by using dry anaerobic digestion technology which transforms organic waste into green energy. Our product OSCAR is a unique combination of hardware, software, and high-efficiency digesters. Our team offers models that transform energy from biogas to produce biomethane, hot water, cool water, steam, and electricity.
Tengyu Lin
Founder & CEO of HurRain Nanotech
HurRain focuses on developing high-functioning nanomaterials to transform our lives by providing innovative solutions to combat global warming and mitigate the growing scarcity of clean drinking water. HurRain is empowering a better life for all human beings around the world.
Wei Yu
CEO of XiaoZao Tech
Xiaozao Tech developed a set of zero-emission, carbon-consumption, and ecologically recyclable microalgae breeding programs based on various intellectual properties, including high-purity EPA extraction, algae extraction EPA. Notably, high-purity EPA plays a unique role in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Its offerings have promising prospects in the pharmaceutical market and food raw materials sectors as well as advancing the healthy development of human beings.
Eloisa De Castra
CEO of ENERPOLY
Enerpoly is building a future where everyone has access to clean energy. Through our pioneering zinc-ion batteries, Enerpoly will drive a transition to the electric grid of the future – one powered by resilient and renewable energy – that has the capacity to support the growth of electric vehicles and offer empowered consumers the choice to support clean energy sources. Through our commitment to honest innovation, we provide everyone with future energy storage solutions.
Mingkun Yu
CEO & President of the Board, EARTH-IOT
The Earth-iot air-ground integrated smart security system is supported by cutting-edge technologies such as “driverless vehicle + drone + 5G + AI algorithm + edge algorithm + wireless charging + cloud platform” to provide a proprietary three-dimensional security solution. The integrated three-dimensional security of air and ground will make our world safer.
Vlad Lorgulescu
COO of Swisspod
Swisspod is developing a technology platform that enables ultra-high-speed transportation systems. While optimizing the energy efficiency of current high-speed transportation, Swisspod envisions a continental map of travel routes that will facilitate collaboration, accelerate human progress, and create a prosperous future.
Stephane Vernede
CEO & CTO of Enwise
Enwise provides clean and affordable energy by using dry anaerobic digestion technology which transforms organic waste into green energy. Our product OSCAR is a unique combination of hardware, software, and high-efficiency digesters. Our team offers models that transform energy from biogas to produce biomethane, hot water, cool water, steam, and electricity.
YGT Entrepreneurs of 2020
Alexander E. Fotsch
Agricultural Operations Vice President of Locus Agricultural Solutions
Locus Agricultural Solutions is helping to solve the interrelated challenges of climate change and food security. Its innovative, award-winning microbial soil “probiotic” technology and CarbonNOW® program gives farmers a new way to boost yields and income and sequester carbon while reducing operating costs and environmental impact.
Csaba Singer
CEO & CTO of Hybrid-Airplane Technologies GmbH
Hybrid-Airplane Technologies GmbH has developed a prototype of the patent-protected Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) h-aero® one. At the current stage of development, it is fulfilling hitherto unsolved challenges in the market for Unmanned Aerial Systems and comes with zero emission.
Binglei Chen
CEO of Bloomgem
BloomGEM is a team focusing on biosynthetic projects, aiming to create the world’s first industrialized microbial dye chromatography. BloomGEM stands for a bloom of Genetically Engineered Microorganisms. It expresses our aspiration to make sustainable fashion and a better world to live in.
Florent Héroguel
Co-founder & COO of Bloom Biorenewables
Bloom reveals the hidden value of biomass to provide renewable energy and materials in markets such as fragrances, materials, plastics or textiles. For the first time, Bloom offers products that are both sustainable and cost competitive.
Lu Ji
CEO of Beijing Hurricane Partner Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Beijing Hurricane Partner Network Technology Co., Ltd. is a B2B service platform. The company uses both the online system ( Tyre Operating System ) and the offline system (Tyre Service Stations)，combined with supply chain finance, to provide the best tyre-solution for logistics enterprises.
Wenzhao Wang
CEO of Fairylands Environmental Sci-Tech. (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Fairylands Environmental Sci-Tech. (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. is an enterprise incubated by Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2015. The company is the leader of distributed, intelligent and unitary pipeline-free wastewater treatment (PFWWT) technology as well as the practitioner and promoter of the PFWWT concept. It is committed to solving the problem caused by the difficulties in the construction and operation of rural sewage networks, and to improve the rural environment in a fast, safe and low-cost way.
Alexander E. Fotsch
Agricultural Operations Vice President of Locus Agricultural Solutions
Locus Agricultural Solutions is helping to solve the interrelated challenges of climate change and food security. Its innovative, award-winning microbial soil “probiotic” technology and CarbonNOW® program gives farmers a new way to boost yields and income and sequester carbon while reducing operating costs and environmental impact.
Csaba Singer
CEO & CTO of Hybrid-Airplane Technologies GmbH
Hybrid-Airplane Technologies GmbH has developed a prototype of the patent-protected Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) h-aero® one. At the current stage of development, it is fulfilling hitherto unsolved challenges in the market for Unmanned Aerial Systems and comes with zero emission.
Binglei Chen
CEO of Bloomgem
BloomGEM is a team focusing on biosynthetic projects, aiming to create the world’s first industrialized microbial dye chromatography. BloomGEM stands for a bloom of Genetically Engineered Microorganisms. It expresses our aspiration to make sustainable fashion and a better world to live in.
Florent Héroguel
Co-founder & COO of Bloom Biorenewables
Bloom reveals the hidden value of biomass to provide renewable energy and materials in markets such as fragrances, materials, plastics or textiles. For the first time, Bloom offers products that are both sustainable and cost competitive.
Lu Ji
CEO of Beijing Hurricane Partner Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Beijing Hurricane Partner Network Technology Co., Ltd. is a B2B service platform. The company uses both the online system ( Tyre Operating System ) and the offline system (Tyre Service Stations)，combined with supply chain finance, to provide the best tyre-solution for logistics enterprises.
Wenzhao Wang
CEO of Fairylands Environmental Sci-Tech. (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Fairylands Environmental Sci-Tech. (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. is an enterprise incubated by Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2015. The company is the leader of distributed, intelligent and unitary pipeline-free wastewater treatment (PFWWT) technology as well as the practitioner and promoter of the PFWWT concept. It is committed to solving the problem caused by the difficulties in the construction and operation of rural sewage networks, and to improve the rural environment in a fast, safe and low-cost way.
YGT Entrepreneurs of 2019
Juan Vicen
Co-founder & CMO of Zeleros Hyperloop
Zeleros is a Spanish company leading the European hyperloop development, a new ground transport system that can travel at 1000 km/h with 0 direct greenhouse gas emissions, reducing aerospace and trucking pollution, congestion, energy consumption and increasing railway speeds. Zeleros’s focus on the vehicle exponentially reduces infrastructure costs and enables operation at safer pressures for both passengers and freight.
Jing Hu
Co-founder & COO of Sunbright Quantum Technology
The company’s core technology is the third-generation solar material – quantum dot flexible film. With quantum dot materials and devices as the kernel, the company develops clean energy solutions with visible light and infrared light as energy carriers for low voltage endurance and remote wireless charging of mobile electronic devices and outdoor photovoltaic power generation.
Robert Heinecke
CEO of Breeze Technologies
Fighting air pollution with artificial intelligence, Breeze Technologies is a leading provider of air quality sensors, data and analytics. The company provides an environmental intelligence platform that offers hyperlocal, comprehensive and accurate air quality data, as well as insights and actionable recommendations.
Yufan Liu
CMO of GPack Inn
Relying on its proprietary recyclable packaging products and nationwide closed-loop recycling network, GPACK INN provides clients with intelligent, efficient and low-cost green packaging product recycling and rental services and customized green packaging total solutions, to reduce packaging costs, improve environment and guide the packaging industry toward standardization and sharing. At present, it has joined hands with many famous companies, such as Cainiao, Tmall, JD, Shanshan, and so on.
José M. Bermúdez
CEO of Bound 4 Blue
Our vision is to power the world with wind, delivering automated wind-assisted propulsion systems as a turn-key solution to all shipowners and operators looking to decrease their fuel-related costs and pollutant emissions.
Jiannan Zhu
General Manager of Orca-Tech
Founded in 2017, Orca-Tech is the pioneer of unmanned water surface cleaning robots. With intelligent cruising and cleaning algorithms, the robots can provide efficient cleaning, improving efficiency, reducing risks and bringing more clear waters. Currently, it has received investments from DJI Technology’s president Prof. Zexiang Li, Hong Kong X Foundation, Brizan Ventures and PNP Leaguer.
Juan Vicen
Co-founder & CMO of Zeleros Hyperloop
Zeleros is a Spanish company leading the European hyperloop development, a new ground transport system that can travel at 1000 km/h with 0 direct greenhouse gas emissions, reducing aerospace and trucking pollution, congestion, energy consumption and increasing railway speeds. Zeleros’s focus on the vehicle exponentially reduces infrastructure costs and enables operation at safer pressures for both passengers and freight.
Jing Hu
Co-founder & COO of Sunbright Quantum Technology
The company’s core technology is the third-generation solar material – quantum dot flexible film. With quantum dot materials and devices as the kernel, the company develops clean energy solutions with visible light and infrared light as energy carriers for low voltage endurance and remote wireless charging of mobile electronic devices and outdoor photovoltaic power generation.
Robert Heinecke
CEO of Breeze Technologies
Fighting air pollution with artificial intelligence, Breeze Technologies is a leading provider of air quality sensors, data and analytics. The company provides an environmental intelligence platform that offers hyperlocal, comprehensive and accurate air quality data, as well as insights and actionable recommendations.
Yufan Liu
CMO of GPack Inn
Relying on its proprietary recyclable packaging products and nationwide closed-loop recycling network, GPACK INN provides clients with intelligent, efficient and low-cost green packaging product recycling and rental services and customized green packaging total solutions, to reduce packaging costs, improve environment and guide the packaging industry toward standardization and sharing. At present, it has joined hands with many famous companies, such as Cainiao, Tmall, JD, Shanshan, and so on.
José M. Bermúdez
CEO of Bound 4 Blue
Our vision is to power the world with wind, delivering automated wind-assisted propulsion systems as a turn-key solution to all shipowners and operators looking to decrease their fuel-related costs and pollutant emissions.
Jiannan Zhu
General Manager of Orca-Tech
Founded in 2017, Orca-Tech is the pioneer of unmanned water surface cleaning robots. With intelligent cruising and cleaning algorithms, the robots can provide efficient cleaning, improving efficiency, reducing risks and bringing more clear waters. Currently, it has received investments from DJI Technology’s president Prof. Zexiang Li, Hong Kong X Foundation, Brizan Ventures and PNP Leaguer.
YGT Entrepreneurs of 2018
Xia Li
Founder, Shenzhen Power Solution
Dedicated to supplying people in BOP (Bottom of the Pyramid) areas with high-quality and affordable solar solutions, Shenzhen Power Solution has delivered solar lighting to 63 developing countries which has benefited more than 4.22 million households. So far, these solar lighting solutions have generated 43.95 million kilowatts of electricity and reduced 77 thousand tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Shutong Liu
Founder of MOTIONECO
MotionECO is a company aiming at recycling used cooking oil and converting it into biofuel; this offers a solution to both food safety and environmental problems. MotionECO’s innovations in biofuel also provide exciting new solutions for sustainable transportation, energy conservation, and air quality improvement.
Brent Constantz
SERIAL SILICON VALLEY ENTREPRENEUR
Brent Constantz is a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur. In 2017, he launched his efforts to address climate change by sequestering and transforming carbon dioxide into building materials, specifically concrete. In 2012, Brent founded his startup Blue Planet to provide a scalable solution to climate change and carbon dioxide emission in an economically and technically sustainable way.
Xi Wang
Founder, VLOOP
Xi Wang is the founder of VLOOP, the world’s first environmental protection platform for consumers. With VLOOP, consumers will reuse and recycle recommended eco-friendly products to earn digital eco-friendly credits as a reward for contribution to reducing plastic pollution. Living in such an era where environmental challenges are more urgent than ever, the eco-friendly credit system will encourage the public to a green lifestyle.
Sean Wihera
Director of Business Development, Clarity Movement
Sean Wihera is the Director of Business Development of Clarity Movement, a Berkeley-based startup providing real-time, street-by-street air quality data. Clarity Movement also provides in-depth analysis including sourcing air pollution and predicting air quality in cities around the world. So far, Clarity Movement’s solutions have been applied in 30 countries and 30 cities all over the world.
Xia Li
Founder, Shenzhen Power Solution
Dedicated to supplying people in BOP (Bottom of the Pyramid) areas with high-quality and affordable solar solutions, Shenzhen Power Solution has delivered solar lighting to 63 developing countries which has benefited more than 4.22 million households. So far, these solar lighting solutions have generated 43.95 million kilowatts of electricity and reduced 77 thousand tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Shutong Liu
Founder, MotionEco
MotionECO is a company aiming at recycling used cooking oil and converting it into biofuel; this offers a solution to both food safety and environmental problems. MotionECO’s innovations in biofuel also provide exciting new solutions for sustainable transportation, energy conservation, and air quality improvement.
Brent Constantz
Serial Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
Brent Constantz is a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur. In 2017, he launched his efforts to address climate change by sequestering and transforming carbon dioxide into building materials, specifically concrete. In 2012, Brent founded his startup Blue Planet to provide a scalable solution to climate change and carbon dioxide emission in an economically and technically sustainable way.
Xi Wang
Founder, VLOOP
With VLOOP, consumers will reuse and recycle recommended eco-friendly products to earn digital eco-friendly credits as a reward for contributing to reducing plastic pollution. Living in such an era where environmental challenges are more urgent than ever, the eco-friendly credit system will encourage the public to a green lifestyle.
Sean Wihera
Director of Business Development, Clarity Movement
Sean Wihera is the Director of Business Development of Clarity Movement, a Berkeley-based startup providing real-time, street-by-street air quality data. Clarity Movement also provides in-depth analysis including sourcing air pollution and predicting air quality in cities around the world. So far, Clarity Movement’s solutions have been applied in 30 countries and 30 cities all over the world.
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