Eugene Zhu

Co-founder & CTO, Ridge Foods - agriculture · fintech · rural distribution

Ridge Foods

Hong Kong · HKT (UTC+8)

10+ years experience

University of the Philippines Diliman

English, Cantonese

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Overview

Building Ridge Foods in Hong Kong - agritech. Took Ridge Foods from zero to $6 million ARR. Previously built and sold a small agritech company. Before that: Standard Chartered and Recruit Holdings. Most at home with fintech and supply chain. Learning woodworking.

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People who want to build this with me
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Speaking or podcast invitations
Early customers and design partners
Working sessions on rural distribution

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Skills

fintechrural distributionagriculturesupply chain

RaisingRaising capital

closes in 3 months

Raising a $12M pre-seed for data labelling for real-estate developers

Stage: Pre-seed
Raising: $12M
Instrument: Priced round
Committed so far: $540k from an existing fund
Lead investor: Looking for a lead
Traction: 17 enterprise pilots after 18 months
Use of funds: 18 months of runway to Series A milestones

17 enterprise pilots after 18 months. Looking for investors who know e-commerce and can help with expansion into the UK.

Hong Kongsupply chainagriculturerural distribution

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Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Need an ML-focused co-founder: pharmacy logistics in the UK

The idea: Need an ML-focused co-founder: pharmacy logistics in the UK
Stage: Idea
I bring: 15 years in agritech
Looking for: Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment: Full-time after funding
Location: Hong Kong or remote

I bring 10 years of agritech (currently Ridge Foods). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Hong Kongrural distributionfintechsupply chain

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Experience

Co-founder & CTO
Aug 2022 - Present
Ridge Foods · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hong Kong
- Signed 206 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
- Took Ridge Foods from zero to $10 million ARR.
Staff Platform Engineer
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
Standard Chartered · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hong Kong
- Cut cold-start time on low-end Android phones by 32%.
- Wrote the fintech service that now handles 21 million requests a day.
Staff Full-Stack Engineer
Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
Recruit Holdings · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hong Kong
- Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

Open-source agriculture toolkit

2023

A small library for agritech that 888 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

University of the Philippines Diliman
BS, Computer Science
2011 - 2015

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