About Us
We're Berkeley students who grew up in factories.
Tangerine Electronic was founded by Daizhe Zou, who grew up visiting his father's factory in Dongguan, China. He watched packaging lines run for brands like Hennessy, Chanel, and Dior — learning the rhythms of manufacturing before he ever wrote a line of code.
At UC Berkeley, studying molecular biology, Daizhe saw something clearly: every AI startup in the Bay Area was struggling with the same problem. They could build incredible software. They could design beautiful hardware. But when it came time to actually manufacture — to find a factory, negotiate terms, manage quality, ship product — they were lost.
The factories existed. The capability was there. But there was a gap — linguistic, cultural, technical — between Silicon Valley founders and Shenzhen factory floors. A gap that cost startups months of delays, thousands in wasted prototypes, and sometimes their entire hardware roadmap.
Tangerine Electronic exists to close that gap.
Our Team
Silicon Valley standards. Chinese manufacturing access.
We're a bilingual team — fluent in Mandarin and English, equally comfortable on a Zoom call with a YC founder and on a factory floor in Dongguan negotiating mold costs.
We combine the technical rigor of a UC Berkeley engineering education with deep, personal relationships in Chinese manufacturing built over nearly three decades.
When we say we vet factories rigorously, we mean it. We visit. We inspect. We test. We hold our partners to the same standard we'd hold ourselves.
Our Mission
Make Asian manufacturing accessible to every AI startup.
No startup should fail because they couldn't find a factory. We're building the bridge between where AI is designed and where AI hardware is made.