The People, As It Stands Today今天的实际人员构成
Two co-founders in post, two open seats. We are showing the vacancies rather than hiding them, because the hiring plan is itself part of what this round funds.
两位联合创始人已就位、两个岗位待补。我们把空缺列出来而不是藏起来，因为补人本身就是这笔资金要买的东西之一。
James Zhuang
Specialises in hardware R&D and systems integration. Does not start from demand — starts from capability: first maps how far atomisation, fluidics, sensors and AI models can actually go, then looks for coffee-cultivation answers just outside that boundary. Works with one hand on papers, code, simulations and prototypes; AI-assisted CFD, control algorithms, BOM optimisation and failure prediction are daily tools, not slide material.
专攻硬件研发与系统集成。思考方式不是先找需求，而是先摸清雾化、流体、传感器和 AI 模型能到哪一步，再从能力边界之外找咖啡种植的新解法。一手读论文、看代码、跑仿真、做样机——AI 辅助 CFD、控制算法、BOM 优化与故障预测是日常工具，不是 PPT 素材。
Accountable for turning aeroponic coffee from a concept into a replicable hardware system — the discipline that decides whether the pilot's cost per seedling survives replication.
负责把雾化种植咖啡从概念做成可复制的硬件系统——这正是决定中试单株成本能否在复制中存活的那门手艺。
Erik Wong
Senior full-stack developer and coffee-industry specialist. Previously ran multiple agtech and fintech projects across Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Specialises in operations, supply chain, cost control and scaling: complex operations get decomposed into SOPs, then recomposed with AI agents into a "one person + a bench of agents" organisation. Accountable for making the technology operable, replicable and chargeable — from nursery batch economics down to cross-border compliance.
资深全栈开发者与咖啡行业专家，此前在香港与深圳运营多个农业科技与金融科技项目。专攻企业营运、供应链、成本控制和规模化落地：复杂运营先拆成 SOP，再用 AI 智能体重组为「一个人 + 一组智能体」的组织。负责把技术变成可运营、可复制、可收费的生意——从种苗批次经济模型一直到跨境合规。
Head of Agronomy
农学负责人
Hydro-/aeroponic nutrition and root-zone physiology. This seat owns recipe lock, multi-batch consistency, and the transfer of process knowledge out of the co-founders' heads and into a documented parameter library.
水培/雾培营养与根区生理方向。该岗位负责配方锁定、多批次一致性，以及把工艺知识从两位创始人的个人经验转移为文档化的参数库。
Lead IoT Engineer
物联网主管工程师
ESP32-class sensor networks, actuator control and real-time data pipelines. The v2.0 sensor layer described in our history was built on this stack; this seat scales it from pilot bay to standard module.
ESP32 级传感器网络、执行器控制与实时数据管道。我们历史中的 v2.0 传感层就建立在这套技术栈上；该岗位要把它从中试舱扩展到标准模块。
Controlled-Environment Engineer
设施环境工程师
Atomisation, HVAC and light uniformity at module scale — the discipline that decides whether the pilot's cost per seedling survives replication.
模块尺度下的雾化、暖通与光照均匀性——决定中试的单株成本能否在复制中存活的那门手艺。
- Full curricula vitae for every named person, with dates and verifiable employers — supplied in the data room at Step 3.每位具名人员的完整履历，含时间与可核验雇主——将在第 3 步数据室中提供。
- Founder photographs and ID — Erik's photograph is shown above; James's photograph and both founders' ID documents are available in the data room at Step 3 or on site.创始人照片与身份信息——Erik 的照片已在上方展示；James 的照片与两位创始人的身份证件将在第 3 步数据室中提供，或现场出示。
- Scientific advisers and any external collaborators, including the identity of the independent cupping panel — to be confirmed in diligence rather than claimed here.科学顾问与外部协作方，包括独立杯测机构的具体身份——留待尽调阶段确认，此处不作主张。
- Employment and IP assignment agreements for all incoming hires, so that process knowledge vests in the company, not in individuals.所有新入职者的劳动与知识产权归属协议，确保工艺知识归属公司而非个人。
Roles and titles above describe functions, not signed employment contracts. "Recruiting" means the position is open and budgeted under this round; it is not an offer to any specific individual.以上岗位与头衔描述的是职能，而非已签署的劳动合同。「招聘中」意味着岗位开放且已在本轮预算内；不构成对任何特定个人的录用要约。
The Record: What This Team Has Already Produced记录：这个团队已经做出来的东西
A team slide is a claim. A dated sequence of results is evidence. This is the sequence, including the parts that did not go the way we wanted.
团队页是一种主张，有日期的结果序列才是证据。以下是这条序列——包括那些没按我们预想发展的部分。
Concept Born概念诞生
First aeroponic coffee prototype built in a Shenzhen warehouse by the two co-founders. The results were, in their own words, "interesting" — the first attempt did not work.第一套气雾培咖啡原型机由两位联合创始人在深圳一间仓库里建成。用他们自己的话说，结果"很有趣"——第一次并没有成功。
First Full Nursery Cycle首个完整育苗周期
The first complete cycle closed — seedlings reaching transplant grade on the 4-month standard, three batches a year. Flavour cupping has not been run: it cannot happen until the plants reach the harvest stage, and we will not claim a cup score we do not have. That session is what we most want a backer to attend for themselves.首个完整周期跑通——幼苗按 4 个月标准稳定达到移栽级，一年三批。风味杯测尚未进行：要等植株进入收成期才能做，我们不会主张一个还没有的杯测分数。那一场杯测，是我们最希望出资方亲自到场、而不是凭信任接受的一项。
IoT System v2.0 Deployed物联网系统 v2.0 部署
ESP32-based sensor network deployed at 200+ sensors per module, with a real-time monitoring dashboard. This became the data layer the current full-cycle control method reads from.部署基于 ESP32 的传感器网络，每模块 200+ 传感器，上线实时监控看板。它成为当前全周期控制方法所读取的数据层。
AIRCAFE Brand ConsolidatedAIRCAFE 品牌整合
The venture was reorganised under the AIRCAFE / Napell BIO identity — the line between Genesis Chronicle's concept work and this operating company is a rename, and we would rather say so than let you discover it.项目在 AIRCAFE / Napell BIO 名下完成整合——Genesis Chronicle 时期的概念工作与本运营公司之间是更名关系，我们宁愿主动说明，而不是让你们在尽调中自己发现。
Invention Patent Filed发明专利提交
《基于气液式雾化的全周期种植管理方法及系统》 filed as a Chinese invention patent, application P2026061510002 — the first asset in this company that exists independently of either founder's availability.《基于气液式雾化的全周期种植管理方法及系统》作为中国发明专利提交，申请号 P2026061510002——这是本公司第一项独立于任何一位创始人个人可用性而存在的资产。
Preliminary Examination Passed · This Round初审合格 · 本轮融资
Acceptance notice 2026-07-23; preliminary examination passed 2026-09-09. Process validated at pilot scale with the unit economics in this document, and no mass production yet. we are here当前位置受理通知书 2026-07-23；初步审查合格 2026-09-09。工艺在中试尺度上已验证，单位经济如本文件所列，尚未量产。we are here当前位置
Team Built Out Under This Round在本轮资金下补齐团队
Three senior functions hired, the parameter library documented, and each co-founder's role narrowed from "does everything" to a named function — James Zhuang on hardware and process, Erik on commercial and supply. That narrowing is the real deliverable.补入三个高级职能、参数库完成文档化、两位联合创始人的角色从"什么都做"各自收窄为具名职能——James Zhuang 负责硬件与工艺，Erik 负责商业与供应链。这个收窄本身就是真正的交付物。
Who Owns Which Outcome谁对哪个结果负责
Team Risk, Stated Plainly团队风险，直说
| Risk风险 | Why it is real为什么这是真风险 | What this round does about it本轮资金做什么 |
|---|---|---|
| Inventor dependency on the hardware side硬件条线对发明人的依赖 | The atomisation and control know-how currently sits largely with James Zhuang. Two founders remove the classical single-point failure, but the technical knowledge is still concentrated in one of them.雾化与控制方面的工艺知识目前主要集中在 James Zhuang 身上。两位创始人消除了经典的「单点故障」，但技术知识仍集中在其中一人身上。 | Milestone #1 is parameter-library documentation; 36-month share lock-up for both co-founders; knowledge transfer is a funded deliverable, not a good intention.里程碑 #1 即参数库文档化；两位联合创始人股权均锁定 36 个月；知识转移是被预算的交付物，而不是一个善意的想法。 |
| No agronomy PhD on staff yet目前尚无农学博士在职 | The founding pair covers hardware and operations, not plant science. They can produce a validated pilot and cannot, between them, defend a cultivation method under substantive examination.开发者出身的创始人可以做出已验证的中试，但无法独自在实质审查中为一项栽培方法辩护。 | The Head of Agronomy seat sits inside the funded people-and-compliance allocation, not as a future aspiration.农学负责人岗位明确列入已预算的人才与合规科目，不是未来的愿望。 |
| Hiring risk in a niche discipline细分领域的招聘风险 | Controlled-environment agriculture in China is a thin talent pool and competes with much better-funded vertical-farm companies.中国的设施环境农业人才池很薄，且要与资金充裕得多的垂直农场公司抢人。 | Two of three seats are scoped as senior-but-not-executive, and the round is priced so that equity can be used as the recruiting instrument.三个岗位中有两个定位为高级但非高管岗，且本轮定价预留了以股权作为招聘工具的空间。 |
| Two founders are still a thin team两位创始人仍然是薄团队 | Two people cannot simultaneously run investor process, patent prosecution, hiring and the first commercial customer without one of them slipping.两个人无法同时推进融资流程、专利审查、招聘与首个商业客户而不让其中一项滑落。 | Tranche release is tied to milestones rather than to activity, so a slipped function is visible at the next release point rather than at the end.资金按里程碑而非按活动释放，因此某一职能滑落会在下一个释放点被看见，而不是等到最后。 |
This section is written to be read alongside §5.5 (Risk and How It Is Governed) in the Proposition section. If the governance there does not answer the risks here, that is the right thing to raise in the first meeting.本节应与「方案总览」§5.5（风险与治理安排）对照阅读。如果那边的治理安排回答不了这里的风险，那正是首次会面应当提出的问题。
How to Meet Them如何见到这些人
The two co-founders, directly, first首先，直接见两位联合创始人
The first conversation is founder-to-investor with no intermediary. Ask the uncomfortable questions about team size before the technical ones — we would rather clear that up in the first ten minutes.
第一次对话是创始人直接对投资人，无中间人。请在技术问题之前先问关于团队规模的那些不舒服的问题——我们宁愿在前十分钟就把这件事说清楚。
Then the site, and then the people然后是现场，再是这些人
Step 4 of the process is a site visit in Guangzhou. That is the only honest way to assess a one-person team: watch the pilot bay run, ask who actually maintains it, and see how much of it depends on one pair of hands.
流程的第 4 步是广州现场考察。这是评估一个"一人团队"唯一诚实的方式：看中试舱实际运行、问清谁在真正维护它、以及它有多大程度依赖同一双手。
If after that visit the team question is still open, we would rather you say so than let it sit as an unspoken discount on the valuation.
如果考察之后团队问题仍然悬而未决，我们希望你们直接说出来，而不是让它变成估值里一个说不出口的折扣。