Chris Wu
Founder, Anvol · Los Angeles
Building Anvol, the layer between a hardware design and a product you can ship.
Bring a design or a prototype and deal only with us. We answer for the whole product, coordinating engineers and factories. Today our team does that by hand, on purpose. Production coordination is the first work we will hand to the agent we are building.
Paying customers since our first month, $0 on ads.
Previously: technical cofounder and CTO of Moorecubes (AI robots for autism support, $300K revenue in one year, then left). Intern at Godela AI (YC Spring 2025). USC Computer Science (May 2027), full time on Anvol.
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Anvol
founder · from hardware design to shipped product · jul 2026 → present
One contract and one owner for the whole product, from a prototype through the first 10–1,000 units. Anvol, Inc. is a Delaware company in Los Angeles; our engineering team and partner factories are in China. It started as a side project in July 2026.
The gap: contract manufacturers are built for volume and platforms stop at mechanical parts, so founders stitch together PCB, firmware, enclosure, assembly and test. Each supplier checks its own piece. No one checks the handoffs.
Today: current jobs include a consumer electronics startup (under NDA), prototype to production, and a USC team's music workstation, 10 units. AI runs our lead finding and inbound triage. The customer workspace is a demo and has not launched.
Next: production repeats the same work batch after batch, so the agent will take over production coordination first. We expect margin on our own service revenue to rise with every batch a customer stays.
The endgame: a compiler for hardware. Each job's checks and supplier records will become the manufacturing rules design tools can read, the way a PDK does for chips.
Engineering is led by Zisheng Li, Head of Engineering, who has shipped 20+ hardware products.
builds by our team, most before Anvol
Moorecubes
technical cofounder & CTO · AI robots for autism support · may 2025 → may 2026
Two AI robots, for autism support and K-12 counseling, taken into school and clinic pilots after a 200-person validation study. Built while a full-time USC student.
$300K revenue in one year
Future Star MiraclePlus (formerly YC China), S26
200 person validation study
Runs fully on-device, recognizing 8 ABA behavior classes, so it works in classrooms with no reliable network.
The hard part wasn't the AI. It was getting the robots made: who was reliable, what a fair quote was, whether the pieces fit. The answers lived in people's heads. That is why Anvol exists.
Left in May 2026 to start Anvol: the market ceiling was lower than I wanted.
Godela AI
YC Spring 2025 · member of technical staff intern · jun — aug 2026
Geometry AI for engineering simulation: text and images to solver-ready CAD.
articuler.ai
AI engineer intern · jan — may 2025
Tuned a LangGraph agent for cost and latency: about $3K a month saved, search from 4.5s to 3.2s.
SoftBank China VC
investment analyst intern · Shanghai · jun — aug 2024
Hardware sourcing and diligence from the investor side: 20+ research reports.
Claude Buddy
ESP32-S3 desk pet · apr 2026
Shows live Claude Code state and makes destructive operations wait for a physical button press.
Instagram, 0 → 1
filmed and edited solo · mar — may 2026
2M+ views in 3 months.
Little Bondi's Bizarre Adventure
educational RPG · Steam · jun 2022
3/500 in the China "Thinks Big" Competition.