Born and raised in China Zhejiang Province, went to Melbourne Australian at age of 16, graduated from Bachelor of IT from RMIT and Master of IT from University of Sydney major in Database.

After graduated from master degree Daniel worked as a Data Analyst in ACNielsen, then worked as Business Intelligence consultant for MBF, Macquarie Bank, BT Finance, Optus in Australia.

Daniel went back to China in 2007 to start his own startup in SAAS, then sold this company in 2008 then later joined ISPACE in ZhangJiang Hi Tech Park Shanghai as a manager for the incubator for 5 years until 2013.

At Mar 2013, Daniel resigned from ISPACE to started his own incubator & early stage investment business branded as 23Seed.

Late 2013, 23Seed online system developed to assist startup information aggregation and analysis for early stage investment. In Feb 2014, Daniel invested in 24Tidy as its angel investor, later that year, 24tidy received investment from Sequoia and now it is one of the largest O2O company in China for services oriented business.

Now Daniel led 23Seed to become a unique incubator and early stage investment firm, 23Seed-HUB is one of the national co-working space, 23Seed Investment portfolio accumulated over 50 startups in US, Israel and China. In 2016, Daniel led 23Seed and CBN TV station produced TV reality show called “The Next Unicorn”, that select the best startups from 7 global cities and compete in Shanghai for a price of 10M RMB.

Recently, 23Seed just ranked the top 50 early stage investment firm of 2016 in China by ChinaVenture, And has offices in Shanghai, Sydney and Silicon Valley, and looking at tech startups from all over the world.