pplpleasr

Founder at Shibuya

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pplpleasr (Emily Young) is a Taiwan-based digital artist and founder of the decentralized film platform Shibuya. She became widely known in 2020 by creating original animations for well-known cryptocurrency brands such as Aave, SushiSwap, yEarn, Poloniex, and was featured on the cover of Fortune magazine.

Work Experience

Shibuya

Founder

Investments

Lens Protocol

The Social Layer of Web3

Tessera

Buy, sell and mint fractions of NFTs

Name	Round	Valuation	Amount	Date
Lens Protocol	Seed	--	$ 15 M	Jun 07, 2023
Tessera	Series A	--	$ 20 M	Aug 17, 2022

Relevance Person

Jacky Wang

Jacky Wang is the co-founder of Shibuya, previously worked as a software engineer at Facebook and Instagram. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Giff Huang

Giff Huang is the co-founder of Shibuya and previously worked as an engineer at Instacart. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Eva Casanova

Eva Casanova is Head of Growth at Hume AI and previously Head of Growth at Shibuya. Previously, she was responsible for brand strategic communications at Galaxy Digital, Day One Ventures, 5W Public Relations, and Ketchum.

Mark Thorsen

Mark Thorsen is the chief of staff at Shibuya and previously served as the chief of staff at NiftyApes. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego.

Michael Liu

Michael Liu is the co-founder of Vaulted and a member of Spirit DAO. Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer of TRUFF. He graduated from the University of Waterloo.