Shengle Wang

Shengle Wang is a robotics engineer and founder of Xingmai Innovation (星迈创新/BeatBot), a pool-cleaning robot company he started in 2022 after spending nine months searching for an underexplored category . Born in 1990, he spent six years as co-founder and EVP at a leading consumer-robotics unicorn, helping scale it to tens of billions in revenue, and earlier worked at Ecovacs developing a window-cleaning robot . His founding insight for BeatBot came from reading 150,000 Amazon reviews and spotting an unmet demand for surface debris cleaning in a market he estimates at $2 billion globally with low penetration . Despite having never visited the U.S. and lacking English fluency, he built the company with a global-first strategy targeting Europe and America, where it now competes with established giants . Monolith Capital, which has backed the company across rounds, described his approach as "more restrained and more difficult" — deliberately avoiding homogeneous competition in favor of differentiated technology and brand positioning . The company has since raised over 1 billion RMB in total funding .