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Yifan Tang

Managing Director at Paly Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Yifan Tang is a highly accomplished technologist and entrepreneur currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Volta Charging and CTO and Board Director at SERES EV. With a background in machine learning, manufacturing, and electric vehicles, Yifan has held leadership roles at various companies, including President at SF Motors Inc and Co-Founder of SilkRides. Yifan Tang's career highlights include serving as the President of SF Motors Inc and co-founding SilkRides, showcasing expertise in electric vehicles and entrepreneurship. Currently, as the CTO at Volta Charging and SERES EV, Yifan continues to make significant contributions in the fields of technology and clean energy.

Work Experience 

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Volektra - Simply Elektrik

  • Board Director

    2024 - Current

  • Chief Technical Advisor

    2023

    Volektra develops advanced magnet-free motor systems for electric vehicles.

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HEVO

  • Board Director

    2024

  • Advisor

    2023

    HEVO develops seamless, safe wireless EV charging technologies and products for L2 and L3 fast charging.

HEVO provides a seamless, safe, and universal wireless charging solution for electric vehicles.

Raised $780,000.00 from Obsidian Investment Partners and Pario Ventures.

hevo.com
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Volt14 Solutions

  • Advisor

    2023

    Volt14's silicon anode is at cost parity with graphite anode but provides significantly better performance as a drop-in replacement for EV battery cells.

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Paly Ventures

  • Founder, Managing Director

    2023

    EV, AI, robotics, power generation, energy storage, aerospace.

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HiT Nano

  • Board Director

    2022

    A Princeton University spinoff, HiT Nano developed sustainable, low-cost cathode manufacturing technologies. Delivering best in class cathode materials for Li-ion, Na-ion and solid-state batteries.

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Volta Charging

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2022 - 2022

    Led engineering, product, data science and IT teams.

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SERES EV

  • CTO, Board Director

    2017 - 2022

    General Manager of SF Motors global R&D Centers (e-Powertrain, Intelligent Driving, Battery Technology, Vehicle Engineering divisions). Seres EV is registered as SF Motors.

SERES EV is an automotive engineering company that delivers intelligent electric vehicles.

driveseres.com
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TeraWatt Technology Inc.

  • Co-founding Advisor

    2020 - 2020

    Led the spinoff of SF Motors battery technology division into a VC funded startup based in Japan.

TeraWatt Technology is a manufacturing company that produces lithium-ion batteries.

terawatt-technology.com
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SF Motors Inc

  • President, SF Motors Japan

    2018 - 2020

    Founded SF Motors subsidiary and built a team in Japan and Silicon Valley to develop Li-ion and solid state battery technologies.

SF Motors develops autonomous electric vehicle technologies.

Raised $13,200,000.00.

driveseres.com
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SilkRides

  • Co-Founder, General Manager

    2017 - 2020

    Built and managed an Intelligent Driving division that developed full-stack L2/L4 autonomous driving software and domain controller (acquired in 2020) and OTA software (went into SF5 production vehicle in China in 2020).

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