Ziliang Yang is the Founder and CEO at CellX, a leading cellular agriculture startup in China. Over the past 3 years, he has built a team of 40 and raised ~$20 million to bring cultivated meat and mycelium products to consumers in China and around the world. He was recognized as Forbes Asia and Forbes China 30 under 30 in 2022, 36 under 36 by 36kr, and top 50 entrepreneurs by innovation China.
Before starting CellX, Ziliang worked as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group in Boston, advising top executives at fortune 500 companies with strategic insights. He gave up the Wharton MBA program to found CellX in 2020. He graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a degree in quantitative economics.
Meanwhile, Ziliang is the founding member and the Secretary of APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture, teaming with 11 other cultivated meat and seafood ventures to advance its regulation and market education in APAC regions.
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