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Founders Sean Yu CEO, Co-Founder Chen Cui is the co-founder of GingerControl, building the AI infrastructure for global trade compliance. Raised in West Auckland, New Zealand, his career has cut across three regulated worlds, life sciences, government, and enterprise tech, with the same throughline in each: the gap between expert judgment and the manual work that surrounds it. Self-taught in data engineering and AI, he went onto leading automation projects for public and private sector clients, before going back to the industry he grew up around: global trade. Chen Cui Co-Founder Sean Yu is the co-founder of GingerControl, a platform bringing AI-driven accuracy to the trillion-dollar import/export market. With a background in Biomedical Engineering and Venture Capital, Sean has spent his c
Backed VC team (30)
Partners and principals at Backed VC:
- Lauren Apostolidis — sweet spot $50K
- Julius Bachmann — sweet spot $50K
- Maximilian Bade — sweet spot $50K
- Alex Brunicki — sweet spot $50K
- Ruperto Calatrava — sweet spot $50K
- Adi Chhabra — sweet spot $50K
- Lauren Currie — sweet spot $50K
- Andre de Haes — sweet spot $50K
- Adam Elgabri — sweet spot $50K
- Andrea Emanuelli — sweet spot $50K
- Amandine Flachs — sweet spot $50K
- James Frewin — sweet spot $50K
- Philip Haibach — sweet spot $50K
- Regina Hartman — sweet spot $50K
- Alice Knibbs — sweet spot $50K
- Gustaf Lundberg Toresson — sweet spot $50K
- Milambo Makani — sweet spot $50K
- Sam Merullo — sweet spot $50K
- Gemma Milne — sweet spot $50K
- Abi Mohamed — sweet spot $50K
- Urenna Okonkwo DipPFS — sweet spot $50K
- Joe Perkins — sweet spot $50K
- Saka Saddiq Nuru — sweet spot $50K
- Jamie S. Elliott — sweet spot $50K
- Conor Sharpe — sweet spot $50K
- Jos Smart — sweet spot $50K
- Jonny Stanton — sweet spot $50K
- Victoria Stoyanova — sweet spot $50K
- Pascal Suhrcke — sweet spot $50K
- Jessica Yung — sweet spot $50K
Backed VC portfolio companies
Companies listed on Backed VC's public materials include: Investor Portal, Portfolio, Events, Insights, Ethos, Team, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Website, Careers, Founders, Sean Yu, Chen Cui, Latest Overview, Talent, Media Kit, FCA Regulations, Code of Conduct.
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