Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee

Managing Partner

Kevin is a Managing Partner at L2 Iterative Ventures. He is also a Partner and Co-Founder of L2 Capital, a global multi-strategy asset manager based in Hong Kong, and Chief Financial Officer of Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited (NYSE: OPA). Prior to co-founding L2, Kevin was an Investment Director in the venture capital arm with Gallant Investment Partners, where he focused on early and growth stage investments in the FinTech, SaaS and Gaming verticals. During his time at Gallant, he also took up a lead   →   Show more

Kevin Lee

Managing Partner

· Co-Founder & Partner of L2 Capital

· CEO of Genesis Games

· Director at Gallant Investment

· Northwestern University

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Dennis Won

Dennis Won

Technical Partner

Dennis is a Managing Partner at L2 Iterative Ventures. Prior to L2 Iterative, Dennis was one of the founding members of Harmony Protocol, an open and decentralized layer 1 blockchain that runs Ethereum applications with 2-second transaction finality and 100 times lower fees. As the Core Protocol Lead at Harmony, Dennis led the research and development of the decentralized sharding and consensus mechanisms that power the fundamentals of the high-throughput, low-latency, and low-fee consensus mechanism.   →   Show more

Dennis Won

Technical Partner

· Founding Engineer at Harmony Protocol

· Core Dev at Klaytn Foundation

· Tech Lead at Facebook (Meta)

· Stanford University CS

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Weikeng Chen

Weikeng Chen

Research Partner

Weikeng Chen is an MPC & ZKP researcher active in many areas of zero-knowledge proofs, including hardware acceleration, customized and application-specific proof systems, privacy and anonymous payments, and cryptographic engineering.

He was previously the co-founder of DZK Labs, working on hardware acceleration, and the chief scientist of Discreet Labs, working on privacy coins.

He graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, advised by Raluca Ada Popa, working on MPC and ZKP. He h   →   Show more

Weikeng Chen

Research Partner

· MPC & ZKP Researcher

· Former Co-Founder of DZK Labs (ZKP Acceleration)

· UC Berkeley (PhD, MS)

· UST China (BEng)

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Kony Kwong

Kony Kwong

Investment Analyst

Kony Kwong is an Investment Analyst at L2 Iterative Ventures. Previously, Kony was an Investment Analyst for the Strategic Mergers & Acquisitions team at Huobi Global. He was responsible for sourcing and evaluating potential investment opportunities with synergistic and strategic benefits globally to Huobi. He sourced and evaluated investment and M&A opportunities in DeFi, NFT marketplaces, crypto exchanges, fintech companies, fan tokens platform, media & advertising, gaming & esports, and other secto   →   Show more

Kony Kwong

Investment Analyst

· Investment Analyst at Huobi Global

· UPenn MCIT

· University of Hong Kong

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Yu Guo

Yu Guo

Senior Advisor

Yu Guo is the Co-Founder of SETBIT Labs, a team focusing on smart contract auditing, formal verification, and zero-knowledge proofs.

He spent ten years as an associate professor specializing in formal verification, particularly operating system verification, at the University of Science and Technology of China. Yu also worked for one year as a research scientist at Yale University, where he helped build certified operating systems. He is currently working on improving the security of blockchain infr   →   Show more

Yu Guo

Senior Advisor

· Co-Founder of SETBIT Labs

· Research lead of ZKCPlus protocol

· University of Science and Technology of China

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Sam Thapaliya

Sam Thapaliya

Venture Partner

Sam Thapaliya is an entrepreneur, programmer, AI infrastructure & blockchain engineer from Nepal. He is the founder of Zebec, a Continuous Settlement Protocol on Solana. He is also one of core contributors of Nautilus, payments focused modular EVM Chain.

Since its inception in 2020, Zebec has raised over $35M in funding. Sam recently went on to execute Zebecs modular roll-up chain powered by Eclipse.

Sam started out with an understanding of information systems and became the founding advisor of Ce   →   Show more

Sam Thapaliya

Venture Partner

· Creator of Zebec Protocol

· Founding Advisor of Cedro Finance and Eclipse

· AI infrastructure & Blockchain Entrepreneur

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Lily Liu

Lily Liu

Senior Advisor

Liliy Liu is a Senior Advisor at L2 Iterative Ventures and a long-time web3 entrepreneur and investor. She is the Co-Founder of Anagram, a blockchain venture building and investment firm and the President of the Solana Foundation. She is also a founding team member of Osmosis.

Previously, Lily co-founded Earn.com, which was acquired by Coinbase in 2018. She was also the CFO of the Chinaco Healthcare Corporation, where she built a 500-bed private hospital in China.

Lily also worked at KKR in New Yo   →   Show more

Lily Liu

Senior Advisor

· Co-Founder of Anagram

· President of Solana Foundation

· Founding team member of Osmosis

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