Black Lake
黑湖科技
Black Lake (黑湖科技) is a Shanghai-based industrial AI company founded in 2016 by Polo Zhou (周宇翔), who serves as its founder and CEO . The company started in production-management digitization and has built a lightweight, replicable product system serving more than 30 industries including food & beverage, auto parts, and equipment manufacturing .
As of April 2026, Black Lake closed a nearly RMB 1 billion Series D round to accelerate industrial AI deployment and global expansion, with ZhenFund participating since its angel round and continuing to back subsequent rounds . The company reports it is fully profitable with annual revenue growth exceeding 60% .
Since 2023 Black Lake has shifted heavily into industrial AI Agents, with products now covering design, scheduling, production, and quality inspection — including a "拆单 Agent" that reduces work-order splitting from hours to minutes at over 95% accuracy, and a "报价 Agent" that compresses quoting from six hours to seconds . Zhou has described the strategic goal as pushing AI Agents into factories' core business processes to transform traditional capacity into data- and AI-driven flexible production .
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