About · Our team
Three founders. Two advisors who've built this before.
Three co-founders building Kynetic together, and two advisors who bring the cold-chain engineering experience of roughly a hundred industrial builds.
Founders
Austin Xie
Co-founder & CEO
UCLA · Biology
Leads Kynetic's capital raise, its manufacturer relationship, and its U.S. certification file: mapped the federal and California requirements for putting a controlled-atmosphere container into service, and runs the testing-lab, inspector, and customs workstreams. Building the advisory bench in post-harvest science.
Richard Qin
Co-founder
Babson College
Student at Babson College. Founded and exited a startup valued at $3.6 million.
Spark Chen
Co-founder
New York University
Student at NYU.
- FoodSpass: rose from intern to board member. The company was named a semifinalist in the Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies competition.
- LintelAI Technology Inc.: served as CMO and led the team in signing partnership deals with Re/Max and Luxmore in Canada.
- Founded a gaming companion startup: over $70K in first-month revenue, a 37,000-member Discord community in the first month, and single Xiaohongshu posts with more than 10K views.
Advisors
Gao
Advisor · Cold-chain engineering
~100 industrial cold-chain projects since 2002, including two 2022 Winter Olympic venues.
Han
Advisor · Business & manufacturing
Founder, intelligent-systems engineering. Business guidance and the bridge to manufacturing.
Being built
An academic bench.
We're in discussions with professors at UCLA and Cornell to join our advisory board. We'll list names here once agreements are signed.
Want to build this with us?
We're a small team with a lot to do. If you know post-harvest science, refrigeration, or California agriculture, we'd like to hear from you.