Charles Lu

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Charles Lu is the Co-Founder of Espresso Systems. He previously worked at Binance Labs. Charles Lu has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.

Education Experience

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Seed -- $ 2.5 M
Jan 29
Pre-Seed $ 30 M $ 1.5 M
Jul 21, 2023
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Rain Long

Rain Long is HashKey Group CHO, formerly the head of human resources at Binance, and also served as CHO at JD.com. Rain Long graduated from China Europe Business School EMBA and Stanford University Mini MBA.

Teck Chia

Venture arm of Binance. Formerly, Teck is the founder and CEO of Dimension.ai, Papers.ai, OpenAppMkt... Teck Chia was previously a partner at Binance Labs. He is a serial entrepreneur, having founded Dimension.ai, Papers.ai, HashTrust, OpenAppMkt, and others. Previously, he was a product manager at Facebook. Teck graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Computer science.

Christy Choi

Christy Choi was the founding member of Binance Labs. She is currently building Spacebar, a community-owned network to hyperconnect across DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and game guilds.

Tyler Zhou

Tyler Zhou is co-founder and chief operating officer of Sahara and previously Chief Investment Officer of Binance Labs. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ben Fisch

Ben Fisch is the Co-founder and CEO of Espresso Systems. He is a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University and a Teaching Assistant at Yale University.

Dana Hou

Dana Hou is the Business Strategy & Ops at Binance Labs, that provides direct support to Yi on Binance Labs, high impact projects, and other key initiatives within the company. Prior to joining Binance, Dana led product development and strategic investments at top notch tech companies, co-founded a startup and was also a macro strategist at Goldman Sachs. Dana graduated from Peking University, and holds an MBA degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Kevin Poh

Kevin Poh is the Director, M&A and Portfolio Management Lead at Persistence. Previously, he covered Portfolio Management at Binance Labs across Strategic M&A, Labs Ventures, BNB Fund, MVB and Incubation Program. Prior to Binance, he was an Associate at Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He graduated from the Singapore Management University in Business Management (Hons.), majoring in Finance.

Chase Guo

Chase Guo is the Co-Founder of Sleek. Previously, he was the Investment Director at Binance Labs.

Batuhan Dasgin

Formerly Binance Labs Co-Lead Director, and Head of Business Development at CoinMarketCap.

Verity Coltman

Verity Coltman is Head of Ecosystem and Partnerships at Espresso Systems and previously was Director of Business development at Coinbase. He is a graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management and Stanford University.