CEO at EverCurrent
Ye Wang
Ye Wang is a second-time founder, researcher, and engineer whose career has consistently pushed the frontier of how teams design and build the physical world. Raised by an industrial designer mother and a manufacturer father, she grew up around the miracle of building. As a teenager, she represented the U.S. at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). She went on to MIT, where she focused on developing advanced manufacturing algorithms and systems. She began her career at Autodesk during the Maker Movement, building early 3D printing tools. She later helped create Onshape, the first cloud-native CAD system, founded Join, a collaboration platform for construction, and most recently led generative AI research at Autodesk with global automotive enterprises. Today, Ye is the founder and CEO of EverCurrent, an AI-native platform that makes the “small miracles” of hardware development repeatable by turning scattered knowledge into shared clarity.
Questions & Answers
What sets you apart from others in your industry?
1. v.s. general AI knowledge tools (e.g. Glean): General AI knowledge platforms focus on search and summarization across office tools. They aren’t designed for hardware workflows, where tacit knowledge, engineering trade-offs, and cross-functional dependencies drive outcomes. EverCurrent is built around engineering context — requirements, schedules, risks, and decisions — not just documents. 2. v.s. AI for mechanical tools (e.g. design copilots): AI design copilots focus on geometry, design reviews, or sourcing productivity. They don’t solve the organizational knowledge problem: why decisions were made, what risks exist, and how cross-functional teams stay aligned. EverCurrent complements these by serving as the connective layer, ensuring that design, manufacturing, and business teams share the same clarity.
What inspired you to start your business?
With AI, we’re at a paradigm shift. Few people have lived across design tools, AI research, and hardware development the way I have. Throughout my career — from Onshape to Join to Autodesk — I saw the same challenge repeat: teams slowed not by ideas, but by scattered knowledge and lost context. I saw the opportunity to build the connective layer that makes hardware development faster, clearer, and more repeatable — a platform that turns institutional knowledge into an asset that multiplies and empowers innovation.
What's a memorable 'aha' moment you've had while building your startup?
One of my biggest “aha” moments came while working with global automotive companies. Despite massive budgets and top talent, they didn’t have their data together for decisions and trade-offs — the contextual knowledge that should be powering their future development. Seeing that gap at the very top of industry made it clear: the need for a connective platform like EverCurrent is universal.
