Henry Lee is Ecosystem Product Lead at ZettaBlock, building KITE AI. Founder at Superteam Malaysia.
I studied Engineering Science in Oxford University, and specialised in decentralised AI (strictly speaking, decentralised optimisation algorithms). Some of my professors included Andrew Zisserman, the father of Computer Vision from VGG and DeepMind.
After university, I joined my professor’s spin-off from Oxford in the UK that made autonomous vehicle software. I joined as an early machine learning engineer when the startup had less than 30 people, now probably 200+ people unicorn after investment from Google and Tencent.
If you ever get the chance to visit London, and see any autonomous vehicles on the road, there is more than a 50% chance the cars are from Oxa 😄 It’s probably the leading robotics company in the UK now (and some say Europe!).
After that, I came back to Asia, and continued working on AI and web3. Out of serendipity, went to a web3 meet-up and got to know the CoinGecko and Etherscan founders, and also met the would be founding team of my next project there.
We then started a company, with me as CTO, venture funded. Built a mobile app that gamifies the sleep-to-earn experience, I coded up the AI algorithms using Transformers too, the models run on the client side, which was a huge pain to get it to work but preserves privacy and maintains performance:
While I was working on the mobile app in the WeWork office, we had 2 office neighbours - Virtuals Protocol and Jupiter Aggregator. I saw the founding teams every week in the office, and we were building together throughout the tough bear market.
Around the time of the pivot, Solana Foundation noticed that there were really great builders in the region, and asked Jupiter if they were interested in doing ecosystem building work for Solana. Jupiter wanted to focus on product, so they suggested the guy next door.
Hence, I started Superteam Malaysia, a chapter of Superteam, Solana Foundation’s key partner in incubating projects to build on Solana.
Now still working and learning in Web3 x AI, as always.
I love Product Management, BD, Growth, Ecosystem Building.
