Hanna Mao, who is an oldest born 90s, have been dedicated in food industry for 7 years . 5 years ago, Hanna started the journey in alternative protein segmentation. She is now in charge of Media Relations & Venture Ambassador of Dao Foods. Hanna has a great passion in food industry all the way long, she once worked for Mondelez International, devoted to digitalizing market growing and brand building. In 2019, she and the community team organized a "Meat Festival" for 10,000 people in Shanghai, which gathered nearly 10 local plant based meat enterprises to participate.

Dao Foods International, Inc. is an impact investment firm that aims to help entrepreneurs develop exciting new plant-based and alternative protein products in China to reduce the consumer demand for animal agriculture. Dao Foods believes that supporting talented entrepreneurs targeting the 400 million millennials in China with new, exciting, and delicious plant-based protein is a huge business opportunity with massive social and environmental impact. In 2018, Dao Foods International was selected as one of the 15 innovative companies that will change the global meat industry in the future by The Grocer, a well-known magazine in the industry, and won the Luxembourg International Climate Finance Accelerator Special Award in 2019. Most recently, Dao Foods tops China's Innovation Fund Top20 announced at the International Future Agrifood Summit held in Nanjing, China in December 2020.

Dao Foods has invested in companies that include Starfield(plant based meat),70/30(plant and Mycelium-based functional food),True Plants（plant-based yogurt）, Mr.Raw( plant based smoothie and more),Wow Kids(plant based milk for children), Cultured Decadence (cell-based lobster meat),Geb Impact(microbial fermentation) and Blue Canopy (mycelium-based fermentation) .