# Molly Yang

> Molly Yang is the co-founder and CEO of Hgen, a Los Angeles climate-tech company building modular, mass-manufacturable alkaline electrolyzers to make clean hydrogen cheap enough for heavy industry. A former energy product lead at Tesla, she teamed up with childhood friend and ex-SpaceX engineer Colin Ho to shrink the electrolyzer roughly twentyfold and package it into shipping containers that need only water and electricity. Hgen has raised $7M total from Founders Fund, Seven Seven Six, and Fontinalis Partners, and Yang was named a 2022 Breakthrough Energy Fellow.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Hgen
- **Organizations:** Hgen, Tesla, Grand Rounds, Insight Partners
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Economics and Computer Science, Harvard University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Hgen, a clean-hydrogen company targeting heavy industry, 2022 Breakthrough Energy Fellow, Raised $7M total in venture funding from Founders Fund, Seven Seven Six, and Fontinalis Partners

## Career timeline

- **2009-2013** — Studied economics and computer science at Harvard University
- **Early career** — Investor at Insight Partners; also taught speech and debate
- **2014-2017** — Product management at Grand Rounds
- **2017-2020** — Senior Product Manager / Energy Product Lead at Tesla, leading industrial and residential energy products including industrial batteries, Superchargers, and home energy
- **2021** — Co-founded Hgen with childhood friend Colin Ho
- **2022** — Raised $2M seed led by Founders Fund; selected for Breakthrough Energy Fellows cohort
- **2024** — Raised $5M round led by Seven Seven Six with Fontinalis Partners and Founders Fund to commercialize a higher-efficiency electrolyzer

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Hgen, a clean-hydrogen company targeting heavy industry
- 2022 Breakthrough Energy Fellow
- Raised $7M total in venture funding from Founders Fund, Seven Seven Six, and Fontinalis Partners
- Led development of an alkaline electrolyzer claimed to be ~20x more volumetrically power-dense than conventional designs
- Former Energy Product Lead at Tesla across industrial batteries, Superchargers, and home energy

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Hgen raised $5M led by Seven Seven Six to commercialize its higher-efficiency electrolyzer; featured in TechCrunch.

## Links

- Website: https://hgen.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yangmolly/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/YangMolly

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Last updated: 2026-06-22