OpenArena Network

Serial entrepreneur who has led multiple ventures with over US$10M raised in total, long focused on discovering, validating, and refining AI products. Drawing on zero-to-one founding experience and hands-on work across fundraising, growth, and commercialization, he looks at a project's product logic, market demand, and commercial conversion — judging whether an idea has the potential to grow into a real business.

I'm a founder-facing ecosystem builder based in Singapore, working across AI, crypto, developer communities, and early-stage startups. At Amber Group, I lead incubation ecosystem initiatives and serve as Head of OpenArena.to. I build founder programs and deal-sourcing channels through the AI x Crypto startup competition BUIDL_QUESTS, Demo Day, investor dinners, and founders dinners, connecting founders with investors, developers, and strategic partners.

Background spanning traditional-industry investing and consumer-sector entrepreneurship, long focused on connecting technical innovation with real commercial scenarios. In this review he starts from go-to-market paths and market value — whether a project answers real needs, fits concrete scenarios, and whether an AI idea can take the further step of becoming a product.

Helped build the asset-trading platform at Alipay, developed SSD firmware at Micron, and worked on ERP systems with SAP — an engineering track spanning low-level firmware, enterprise software, and business platforms. Pairing that solid engineering background with front-line investment experience, he weighs technical quality, product logic, and investment value alike — judging whether a project can develop further and scale.

Pioneered China's digital-nomad community model in 2021, founding and operating the DNA Anji, DN Yucun, DN Huangshan, and DN Wuyishan communes, and is now preparing the DN Hangzhou · Hangchuangying OPC community. A front-line practitioner of the one-person-company ecosystem, he has long observed how solo founders organize resources, build collaboration, and shape sustainable ways of working — judging from real operating conditions whether a project can run for the long term, connect with users, and keep creating value.

24-year-old engineer focused on agent-harness research. colleague-skill, built in a casual 4 hours — the "colleague.skill" everyone knows — hit 6,700 GitHub stars in 3 days and has now passed 20,000.

Founder & CEO of DistriBrain, building AI Agent-as-a-Service infrastructure, and co-founder of the China-Singapore AI Association — a 1,500+ network of AI founders, investors and researchers across China, Singapore and the UK. Nine years incubating 20+ AI-native startups; ex-ByteDance PM with an NTU Technopreneurship master's.

Veteran Web3 incubator builder backing AI and DePIN startups; co-author of China's first national blockchain standard.

AI and machine learning researcher with widely cited work in deep learning, computer vision, and data mining.

AI-native "super individual" — ICML 2026 co-author, LLM theorem-proving researcher, and serial hackathon winner at the AI × Web3 frontier.

Founder of the Claude Singapore Community (Claude SG) — 3,000+ developers with chapters across Indonesia, Vietnam, India and Sri Lanka — and of Web3SG. Anthropic × Temasek × Genspark hackathon winner, championing free, accessible AI education for schools, SMEs and government agencies across Singapore.