Li Mingyang

Born in 1981; graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Worked as an engineer at Shanghai Ziquan Beverage and then sales manager at Tetra Pak Kunshan for over seven years, where he saw the automation pain points of food and beverage lines. In July 2014 he co-founded JAKA Robotics with the SJTU robotics institute team inside the university's incubator; after three years of system integration the company moved into cobot development in 2016, launched its first wireless cobot JAKA Zu7 in 2017 and won its first commercial orders in 2018. Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Temasek and Saudi Aramco, he controls 41.63% of voting rights through direct and indirect holdings (14.86% direct pre-IPO); the STAR Market IPO review passed in August 2025.