Junbin Zhang
张峻彬
Junbin Zhang is the founder and CEO of Cloud Whale (云鲸智能), a robotics company he started after studying under "super professor" Li Zexiang at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology . Born in the 1990s, Zhang built Cloud Whale's core team from young graduates of top Chinese and international universities including Tsinghua, SJTU, Huazhong UST, Harbin IT, Zhejiang University, HKUST and NUS . The company raised angel funding from the Clear Water Bay Startup Fund in 2016 and a Pre-A round from Future Capital and Clear Water Bay in 2017 , before Source Code Capital's Kaisi Chang invested in 2019 after discovering Cloud Whale's product on Douyin—reportedly "not letting [Zhang] leave until he signed the term sheet" . Zhang was named to 36Kr's 36 Under 36 list of remarkable founders in 2020 and again in 2023 . In a 2026 profile, Source Code Capital noted that at age 36 Zhang had come to see he could no longer afford to be merely a mild-tempered person .
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