Ziliang Yang
杨梓梁
Ziliang Yang is the co-founder and CEO of CellX, a food-tech startup working to commercialize mycelium-based protein products. He left a position at BCG and gave up a Wharton MBA to return to China and start the company in 2020, initially exploring cell-cultured meat before pivoting to mycelium fermentation . In March 2025, CellX launched its consumer brand Mourish in the United States with a high-protein plant-based jerky made from Chinese wild edible mushroom mycelium, and that same year the company received FDA safety recognition for its morel-mushroom mycelium protein ingredient . Yang was named to the 2024 Hurun China Under 35s list of entrepreneurial pioneers .
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