FoundersHK Meets David Lee - Founder of Nex - January 2025
Join FoundersHK for an exclusive live webinar with David Lee, founder and CEO at Nex Playground and Edith Yeung, General Partner at Race Capital happening on January 14 at 9 AM HKT (January 13 at 5:00 PM PDT).
Recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions and Parents’ Best Toys of 2023, Nex Playground is a next-generation active entertainment console and ecosystem. It’s designed to be the most simple, the most active, and the most family-friendly. Unlike the previous generations which require sensors (Wii) or complex camera systems (Kinect), Nex Playground leverages AI to track motion through a single camera. Playground is filling the void Wii and Kinect left behind, which sold 110M and 35M units respectively.
In this fireside chat (online), you will learn
David's startup journey with EditGrid & Nex
What inspire him to start Nex Playground
What is next for Nex Playground
Understanding US Market - Go to market, hiring, etc
Advice for other Hong Kong founders
And much more
David was born and raised in Hong Kong. Him and his co-founders of Nex, have been working together for over 20 years, they sold their first company to Apple, spent over 8 years at Apple, and left Apple in 2017 to start Nex.
About David Lee - Founder & CEO at Nex
David Lee is Co-Founder and CEO of NEX Team Inc., a Silicon Valley-based startup building next-generation active entertainment console and ecosystem.
Prior to founding NEX Team, David spent over 8 years at Apple where he led the engineering group behind iWork for iCloud, which further developed technologies from his earlier startup, EditGrid (acquired by Apple in 2008).
This event is presented by FoundersHK
FoundersHK is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with the mission to build Hong Kong as the next tech hub of the world.
FoundersHK is a global community of entrepreneurs, technology leaders and investors passionate about propelling the next generation of Hong Kong founders to scale and thrive in all parts of the world. FoundersHK is an entryway for Hong Kong founders to Silicon Valley and the rest of the world. We put the right people together, to help Hong Kong founders become an integral contributor to the global community of tech innovation leadership.
FoundersHK is a community where we skip the bullshit, get right to work, and deliver results. For that is the essence of the true Hong Kong spirit.