Cyril Ebersweiler built HAX from a garage in Shenzhen into the world's first and largest hardware accelerator by basing himself directly inside Huaqiangbei so founders learn in the kitchen of the global supply chain rather than outsourcing manufacturing. He uses HAX's in-house engineering, design, and regulatory expertise as a moat to back atom-heavy companies that often look impossible to pull off, while pushing founders to think of robots as recurring revenue services through usage-based models like charging per square foot cleaned. Cyril Ebersweiler built HAX from a garage in Shenzhen into the world's first and largest hardware accelerator by basing himself directly inside Huaqiangbei so founders learn in the kitchen of the global supply chain rather than outsourcing manufacturing. He uses HAX's in-house engineering, design, and regulatory expertise as a moat to back atom-heavy companies that often look impossible to pull off, while pushing founders to think of robots as recurring revenue services through usage-based models like charging per square foot cleaned.