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Eric Diep is a Toronto-born founder in the technology, consumer, and crypto industries. He is the founder of Manifold, an NFT infrastructure developer, and the co-author of the first US patent for systems and methods to support real-time chat on mobile devices. He is also the founder emeritus of A Thinking Ape Entertainment, a top-grossing game developer on Apple and Google Play, and an angel investor. Eric studied mathematics and fine arts at the University of Waterloo before dropping out to join Y Combinator in 2007.
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Wilkins Chung
Wilkins Chung is an entrepreneur and investor who has founded and grown multiple early-stage technology companies. He is the founder of Manifold.xyz and a partner of Moso Capital, a venture firm founded by Y Combinator, Facebook, and Amazon alumni. He has held multiple roles in his companies, including CEO, CTO, COO, and CFO, and has been successful in building and managing a team. Wilkins is also a board member of A Thinking Ape and has held positions at Amazon.com as a Software Development Manager and Software Development Engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Ted Livingston
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Gus Gutoski
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Daniel Chu
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Jason Du
Jason Du is the Co-Founder at Legends of Venari. He presively was iOS Developer at Coinsquare. Jason Du graduated from University of Waterloo.
Sola Ogunsakin
Sola Ogunsakin is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Terrace.
Mike Silagadze
Mike Silagadze is CEO at Ether.Fi and Gadze Finance. Formerly, Founder, Board member at Top Hat.
Jasraj Bedi
Jasraj Bedi is the Co-founder and CTO of Zellic. Jazzy was inspired to start Zellic after reading countless surface-level, useless audit reports as a DeFi enthusiast. He loves crypto, and is an active trader and user in many different protocols. Before Zellic, Jazzy worked at Google hacking Android. He is a bug bounty veteran, claiming bounties on countless Fortune 500 companies’ programs. Jazzy is a founder of perfect blue, the world’s #1 CTF (competitive hacking) team in 2020 and 2021.
Sparks L.
Sparks L. is a co-founder of NFPrompt and was previously a software engineer at Amazon. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
Shruti Appiah
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