The Problem - How Professionals Create Content Today
AI tools exist. The workflow doesn't.
China's e-commerce operators face this daily.
Tens of millions of sellers on Taobao and Pinduoduo — stitching 4 tools per asset, no workflow, no repeatability.
What if it was easy and fast?
Proof of Concept — Pod-Lab.cn
That's why we
built Pod-Lab.
built Pod-Lab.
One platform: generate, edit, layout
28 tools, zero prompting. Built for commercial output, not experimentation.
28 tools, zero prompting. Built for commercial output, not experimentation.
Self-sustaining from month one.
Zero paid marketing.
Zero paid marketing.
16%
Registered → Paid
vs
2–5%
Industry avg
Baidu #1 organic — "pod-lab"
Google #1 — "POD AI设计工具"
ChatGPT & Gemini both cite pod-lab.cn
Showcase — One-Click Tools Examples
Pattern Paste
Virtual Try-On
Showcase — One-Click Tools Examples
Pattern Extract/Paste
Product Development
Showcase — One-Click Product Placement
Showcase — One-Click AI Try-On
Showcase — One-Click Product Details
Showcase — Workflow
Build once. Repeat with a single click.
Combine any of our tools into your own repeatable sequence — then execute the entire production flow with a single click.
Videos of every tool in action.
Scan or click to open link.
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The Solution - kuumba.ai
Pod-Lab is ready for the West.
kuumba.ai
This raise makes it possible in 3 months.
Market Validation
Higgsfield showed how fast AI tools scale: $1.3B in 9 months. They solved access and design.
Canva showed how big workflow platforms get:
265M users. $42B.
Canva showed how big workflow platforms get:
265M users. $42B.
Nobody solved the commercial workflow.
We did.
We did.
Higgsfield · AI Visual Tool · Velocity Proof
$300M
ARR · 11 months
15M
Users
$1.3B
Valuation · Series A
$138M
Raised
Consumer creators · high churn · not our buyer. But the valuation proves the market.
ARR run rate, not recognized revenue · Sacra · Feb 2026
Canva · Visual Workflow Platform · Buyer & Validation Proof
$4B
ARR · 2025
265M
Monthly users
11%
Paid conversion
7yr
Profitable · PLG only
SMBs · marketing teams · commercial sellers. Exactly our buyer.
They already convert at 11% on Canva — our 10% target is proven territory.
They already convert at 11% on Canva — our 10% target is proven territory.
Sacra · 2025
Our Market
Higgsfield's users create for fun.
Canva's users design for work.
Our users sell for a living.
50 product images.
Friday deadline.
That's the job.
Friday deadline.
That's the job.
Tools that do it keep getting paid.
The team
Damon Lee
Founder & CEO
Running DACO Trading & IT Consulting since 2016 — still active, still embedded in the operations Nexora is built for
Deployed IT solutions across multi-site, multi-country companies (Drayton Aerospace, Evermore Silicone, Bubble Bliss Biotech, etc.)
Saw the same problem everywhere: complex operations running on tools that weren't built for them, enterprise software too rigid and expensive to fix
Fluent in both markets — operationally, culturally, commercially. That's not a credential. That's the unfair advantage.
Drives operations, product vision, GTM, capital allocation and investor relations
Leads Enterprise outreach and strategic partnerships.
Jerry Tan
Co-Founder & CTO
12 years building frontend systems across manufacturing, e-commerce, and AI tooling — knows how production software actually gets used
In one month, assembled Pod-Lab into a live, revenue-generating platform — 28 tools, ranked #1 on Baidu, serving a paying community. With AI as his co-pilot
Led AI team at Frog Prince (青蛙王子) — Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, large model fine-tuning and deployment across production environments
Deep in the AI stack: Lora training, visual model development, agent architecture
Leads all platform architecture across Pod-Lab, Kuumba and all future platforms
Damir Firšt
Strategic Advisor — AI & Spatial Systems
Deep tech founder · 10+ years in AI, spatial computing, and gaming
Raised multimillion funding rounds · helped scale products to tens of millions of users
Venture Partner — AI Strategy & International Expansion · positioning, GTM, partnerships, cross-border growth
AR/XR co-founder across Europe and Asia
Zagreb City Assembly · CroAI Foundation — AI education and policy in the EU
WHY THIS TEAM WINS
Unfair Advantages
The bridge nobody else has.
China manufacturing + AI + Western SaaS built from live commercial workflows. No competitor operates both markets natively.
China manufacturing + AI + Western SaaS built from live commercial workflows. No competitor operates both markets natively.
The proof is already live.
28 tools, #1 on Baidu, 22% paid conversion, zero marketing spend. Revenue from month one.
28 tools, #1 on Baidu, 22% paid conversion, zero marketing spend. Revenue from month one.
Capital-efficient by design.
7 hires over 18 months. Global team under 10.
By utilizing Ai and smart automations.
7 hires over 18 months. Global team under 10.
By utilizing Ai and smart automations.