Zhou Yuxiang is a leader in industrial AI, driving Black Lake Technologies, which serves over 32,000 factories globally. Its solutions streamline shopfloor operations and improve collaboration from management to line workers and cobots. Backed by Temasek, Bertelsmann, CITIC and GGV, the company has raised over RMB 1.3 billion ($185 million). He was named to Fortune’s “40 Under 40” and awarded the May Fourth Youth Medal. Previously, co-founded a data infrastructure platform for enterprise analytics and worked in private equity and M&A. He graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College as a Freedman Scholar.