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Charles Lu

Co-Founder at Espresso Systems

Details

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
Nectar AI Nectar AI
-- -- $ 3.9 M
Aug 27, 2024
Marginal Marginal
Pre-Seed -- --
May 16, 2024
Infrared Infrared
Seed -- $ 2.5 M
Jan 29, 2024
Side Protocol Side Protocol
Pre-Seed $ 30 M $ 1.5 M
Jul 21, 2023
Followers 8.28 K
Following 265
Top Followers
+68

Relevance Person

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.

Ella Zhang

Ella was the founding head of Binance Labs and has now returned to serve as the head of YZi Labs after leaving her job to start a business several years ago. She is a graduate of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and has co-founded two artificial intelligence startups, focusing on supply chain and customer service.

Mathilda Sun

Mathilda Sun is Head of Growth and Ecosystem for Asia Pacific at Aligned and was previously an investment Manager at Mask Network and an investment intern at Binance Labs. She graduated in Electrical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2022.

Dana Hou

Dana Hou is an investment partner at YZi Labs. Prior to joining Coin, Dana worked at Alibaba and Crypto, and was a macro strategist at Goldman Sachs. Dana graduated from Peking University and holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Kevin Poh

Kevin Poh is a founding partner of C.K Capital. 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 and Molecule. Previously, he was the Investment Director at Binance Labs.

Changpeng Zhao

Changpeng Zhao is the Founder and former CEO of Binance. He is originally from Guiyang, Guizhou, and was born in Lianyungang, Jiangsu. He was a member of Blockchain.info and the chief technology officer of OKCoin, and also served as the technical director of Bloomberg. Changpeng Zhao is best known for founding cryptocurrency exchange Binance. His wife is He Yi, the co-founder of Binance, and they have two children together. On November 21, 2023, Changpeng Zhao announced his resignation as CEO.

Vincent Niu

Vincent Niu is a former partner at Sky9 Capital, focusing on investments in the blockchain industry infrastructure, middleware, application layer (DeFi/NFT) and other fields. He previously founded DappReview, a decentralized application data analysis platform, which was acquired by Binance in 2019. Since then, he has also served as the product leader of CoinMarketCap and has invested in several early NFT and DeFi projects. Prior to this, Niu Fengxuan worked as a quantitative analyst at BlackRock.

Ken Li

Ken Li is the co-founder of Eternis and the former investment director of Binance Labs. He graduated from Harvard University.