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Yang Yu on the TechTO stage

Yang Yu

Chief Executive Officer, Micromart

Food techTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2019

Yang Yu founded KitchenMate in Toronto, which put refrigerated meal-pods and a smart cooker into offices so staff could heat a fresh meal in minutes. He is now chief executive of Micromart, which runs 24/7 fresh-food micro-markets in workplaces, condos and hospitals. He studied computer science at the University of Toronto.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO13:39

Start a Meaningful Company | Yang Yu, Founder & CEO of KitchenMate

TechTO · May 2019
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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2019. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Yang ↗

In their words

I've been chasing after great ideas one after another but that has only led me to failures but this time I'm chasing after a problem I truly and deeply care about and there's nothing that's gonna stop me from solving it.

TechTO, May 2019 · watch at 05:19 ↗

Stop trying to chase after the hype and look inside and around you — I'm certain you're gonna find a meaningful problem worth solving.

TechTO, May 2019 · watch at 06:57 ↗
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Around the web ×1

Article
KitchenMate makes it easy to cook fresh meals at workTechCrunch
2020

Quick answers

What does Yang Yu do now?

He is chief executive officer of Micromart, where the team page lists him alongside Aditya Bali as COO and Arwid Bancevicius as CTO — all three co-founders of KitchenMate. Checked 4 August 2026.

What was KitchenMate?

A Toronto workplace-food company Yu founded that delivered sealed meal-pods to offices and heated them in a connected cooker, letting employees make a fresh meal without a kitchen. It raised a US$3.5 million seed round led by Eniac Ventures and Golden Ventures.

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