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Industrial intelligence for mission-critical advanced manufacturing

Lychee Labs is building industrial intelligence for mission-critical advanced manufacturing, with an initial focus on battery and energy manufacturing.

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Mission

Earlier visibility is economically material

Lychee Labs exists because signal in complex manufacturing is often fragmented, delayed, and too hard to act on in time. In battery and energy manufacturing, earlier visibility is economically material: it can help reduce waste, lost output, and margin erosion before problems compound. The company is building the intelligence layer for high-stakes manufacturing environments where delay destroys value.

Current focus

Lychee Labs builds industrial intelligence for mission-critical manufacturing, with an initial focus on battery and energy environments where delayed discovery is especially expensive. The platform helps industrial teams detect defect risk earlier, accelerate diagnosis, and reduce waste, lost output, and revenue leakage.

Team

People building the intelligence layer

Lychee Labs brings together applied machine learning, battery-materials expertise, and rapid engineering execution to build the intelligence layer for high-stakes manufacturing environments.

Founder & CEO

Linda Hong Cheng

Lychee Labs is led by founder and CEO Linda Hong Cheng, a BBC-featured AI founder, former AI PhD, Clarendon Scholar at Oxford, and AI research fellow at Columbia. Her research on applied machine learning for complex systems has been published in the Oxford Handbook as its youngest invited author, along with Mobilization: An International Quarterly, the ICLR Post-AGI Workshop, and other leading forums. Her work has been featured by the BBC and China Daily, and she has been invited to speak at the World Economic Forum, Google, IBM, Flutter, Columbia, and Oxford. She leads Lychee Labs’ ML systems, product vision, and commercial strategy.

Technical Lead

Yongkang Zou

Yongkang Zou is Lychee Labs’ Technical Lead, an exited founder and full-stack AI engineer with a background spanning multi-agent systems, AI productization, and rapid technical prototyping. He was previously founding AI engineer at Epiminds, backed by Lightspeed Ventures, and has been recognized through prestigious global hackathon wins including Project Europe, ElevenLabs, and the Lovable Hackathon. At Lychee Labs, he drives prototyping speed and engineering velocity.

Battery / AI collaborator

Bruno Andreis

Bruno Andreis is an AI and battery expert collaborator at Lychee Labs, with a materials science PhD and postdoctoral research fellowship at Oxford. His work focuses on data-driven approaches to high-impact AI applications in battery and energy-storage materials. At Lychee Labs, he brings battery and materials depth, helping translate domain complexity into technically grounded product direction.

Lychee Labs

Lychee Labs is building the control-layer view that complex manufacturing often lacks.

The company is focused on battery and energy manufacturing because the need is immediate, the economics are concrete, and earlier visibility can change operating outcomes.

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