Events

Join Race Capital and our crew on March 15th at 6pm.

Drinks are on us + meet awesome Web3 founders, builders, and investors. Meet us at the double decker bus. 

Web3 Happy Hour

Venue: Sky Bar (20th floor) of the SLS Baha Mar 

Race Capital: Crypto Bahamas Web3 Drinks

You are cordially invited to join Race Capital and #Hashed for an evening of good food and friends at Galley (in the Hilton West Palm Beach).  

Come at 6pm for drinks at the bar with dinner to follow at 6:45pm.

If you have any issues, feel free to text/iMessage Richard at +1.416.318.4929 or TG @RichardRace

Race Capital + #HASHED: Permissionless Web3 Dinner (Invite Only)

Join Race Capital to learn how the current macroeconomic landscape has changed Web2/Web3 VC infrastructure investing in 2022 and beyond. This talk will explore:

 Wednesday, June 1, 2022 (North America) / Thursday June 2, 2022 (Asia)

Register now to secure your spot for this exciting and timely webinar.

Race Capital Fund II Introduction & Web3 Investment Landscape 2022

Alfred, Edith and Steven are finally back!  And we would love to catch up and host you in person for the first time in 2022.  Would love to finally connect with you in real life, talk about your startups, 2023 goals and everything else in between. 

Thank you to Steven and team Goodnotes for hosting us!  We look forward to seeing you on December 8!  

The is invitation-only event for founders by founders

. Location will be revealed after your registration is approved. 

FoundersHK December 2022 Founders Dinner

We have surpassed maximum capacity for this event! Thank you for your interest. Please follow 

 for news on the next event in January 2023.

NFT Hong Kong Summit 2022 is bringing the world's most influential NFT creators, builders, developers and investors to Hong Kong. 

The economic backdrop for Web3 / Crypto to this year’s summit makes this event event more important. A shakeup in markets has created rich opportunities to set the industry on a path to mass adoption while also weeding out the unsustainable projects built on hype rather than substance. 

NFT Hong Kong Summit 2022

FoundersHK hosted a fireside chat (on Zoom) with Tony Wong - Co-Founder of  Shopline.

Meet Tony Wong - Co-Founder of Shopline. 

Tony Wong, Co-founder of SHOPLINE, is a 2x serial entrepreneur, experienced in Product & Systems Architecture. 

Before founding SHOPLINE, he has managed high profile projects in media and e-commerce industries. As SHOPLINE Founder, he grew the team from 3 to 1500 within 9 years and built a strong product with an agile development team in 3 locations, powering thousands of merchants to achieve their own entrepreneurial dreams. Tony also led the team into 500 startups accelerator in Silicon Valley, being the the 2nd team from HK to be accepted. He successfully raised a financing round from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund. 

Tony multi-cultural background makes him highly adaptable by living previously in Venezuela, Canada, Singapore, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Selected as one of the 10 Most Powerful Investors in Crypto by The Information, Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, 

, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups.

Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.

Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on Crypto, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc

 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.

FoundersHK Meets Tony Wong - Co-Founder of Shopline

FoundersHK is hosting a in-person discussion with Alfred Chuang - Founder of Race Capital, BEA Systems and FoundersHK and Dr. Kai-Fu Lee - Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and former president of Google China. 

2022 was not a great year for venture capital and tech startups.  Venture funding for the first nine months of 2022 totaled $369 billion, down 25% year on year, according to Crunchbase. The median pre-money valuation for all stages were trending downward and may likely continue in 2023. 

 is a native of Hong Kong. He is the founder and general partner at Race Capital. Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the “

”, Alfred is an accomplished entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

Race Capital is a world class venture capital firm for all things enterprise and software infrastructure with many industry transformational portfolio companies including FTX, Databricks, Lightning Network, Opaque, Zeet, and many more to come.  Prior to Race, Alfred co-founded and took BEA Systems public (Nasdaq: BEAS).  In addition, Alfred became BEA’s chairman of the board where he remained until BEA was sold to Oracle in 2008 for $8.6B. BEA was the fastest enterprise technology company to reach revenue of USD$1B.

Prior to BEA, Alfred spent eight and a half years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. During his tenure, Sun grew from less than 1000 to 60,000 people strong with revenue over $6B.  Alfred led product development, network infrastructure, systems architecture, and expanded Sun’s business to Asia.

Alfred’s notable awards include C/F Silicon Valley Philanthropist of the Year, SD Forum Visionary Award, CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision Award Honoree and Community Star from Asian Americans for Community Involvement, eChina Forum Silicon Valley Award Honoree, and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. University of San Francisco President’s Ambassador, UC Davis Outstanding Alumnus Award, UC Davis Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal.

Alfred is an independent advisor at the University of San Francisco School of Engineering, Member of the UC Davis Chancellor’s Board of Advisors, Member of the School of Business Dean’s Committee, City University of Hong Kong, and Member of the School of Engineering Industrial Advisory Committee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Alfred received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco and a master’s degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis. Alfred also attended St. Andrews College and Wah Yan College.

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a leading venture capital firm that manages a 2.5 billion USD fund focused on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. He is also president of Sinovation Ventures Artificial Intelligence Institute, which works to infuse AI inside traditional companies and venture build AI startups. 

Previously, Lee was the president of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI and Apple. He's the cochair of the Artificial Intelligence Council for the World Economic Forum's Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was named one of the most influential people in the world by 

Lee received a bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University and a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. While at Carnegie Mellon, he built a program that defeated the world champion at Othello in 1988, one of the first examples of a computer beating the best human player at a game. He also developed the world's first large-vocabulary, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system. 

As an executive, Lee founded Microsoft Research China, later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, that has trained the majority of AI leaders in China, including CTOs and AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei and Haier. While at Apple, he led AI projects in speech recognition and natural language processing that were featured on 

, which examines the role of the US and China in the future of artificial intelligence as well as its impact on society. His latest book, coauthored with award-winning science-fiction writer Chen Quifan, is called 

. It presents a roadmap to educate and explore the opportunities and challenges presented by AI over the coming decades.

Edith is a native Hong Konger and General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, 

Also check out our partner event at the same venue starting at 6 pm 

HKG DAO presents Web3 Investment Outlook 2023

FoundersHK Presents A 2023 Outlook for Venture Capital, Technology and Startups with Alfred Chuang and Dr. Kai-fu Lee

The annual Hong Kong Internet Report tracks all the investments, startups, VCs and general activity in the city.

- Statistics on the Hong Kong’s most well-funded startups, largest funding rounds, and most active venture investors

- Challenges facing the Hong Kong startup ecosystem including outflow of tech talent to other countries 

Author Edith Yeung of Race Capital and FoundersHK will talk to Casey Lau of 

 LIVE on Twitter Spaces this Friday morning (HK time) to go over highlights of the report!

Download the report here and get ready to ask questions: 

Hong Kong Internet Report 2023

We are thrilled to announce that our new office is finally ready and we would like to invite you to join us for our office warming party. After much hard work and effort, we are eager to show off our new space and celebrate with the people who have supported us along the way.

: Race Capital, 437 Lytton Ave #100, Palo Alto, CA

It will be an opportunity to catch up with old friends, make new connections, and of course, have a great time. Light bites and drinks will be served.

Race Capital: Office Warming Happy Hour (Invite Only)

 program is proud to present Race Capital and UC Berkeley's Learn2Launch program are proud to bring founders and funders to UC Berkeley's campus for a half-day program on Generative AI.  

We will bring together a group of founders, engineers, expert thinkers and investors that are focusing on building a brighter future for AI. 

: Room 310, Sutardja Dai Hall, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Harrison Chase is the CEO and co-founder of LangChain, a company formed around the open source Python/Typescript packages that aim to make it easy to develop Language Model applications. Prior to starting LangChain, he led the ML team at Robust Intelligence (an MLOps company focused on testing and validation of machine learning models), led the entity linking team at Kensho (a fintech startup), and studied stats and CS at Harvard.

 - General Partner at Race Capital, Founder and CEO of BEA Systems.

 is is the founder and general partner at Race Capital. Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the “

Amr Awadallah - Founder and CEO of Vectara, Founder/ex-CTO Cloudera, ex-VP Google Cloud & Yahoo

Dr. Amr Awadallah is the CEO and cofounder of 

, a company that is revolutionizing how we find meaning across all languages of the world using the latest advances in Large Language Models, Deep Neural Networks, Natural Language Understanding and Information Retrieval. 

Amr previously served as VP of Developer Relations for 

. Prior to joining Google in Nov 2019, Amr co-founded 

 in 2008 and as Global CTO, he spent 11 years working closely with enterprises around the world on how to ingest and extract value from big data (he famously coined the concept of “

He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at 

! from 2000-2008. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, Aptivia, in mid-2000 which was a search engine for online product information. Amr received his 

 - Faculty Director at UC Berkeley & founder of the Learn2Launch program.

Founder of the Learn2Launch program, an educator, business leader and entrepreneur, investor and advisor, Mark has spent more than 20 years building businesses at the intersection of technology/clean tech, media, and brands. Mark works with investors, boards, and company leaders to drive growth and restructure businesses that range from early-stage ventures such as clean tech firm ETwater through global enterprises such as Intel, DirecTV and Sony. Mark draws upon those experiences in the classroom at UC Berkeley, where he teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business. He also acts as a mentor and advisor to many students and teams on campus and also at the SkyDeck Berkeley new venture accelerator.

Previously Mark was an Executive Vice President at Sony where he co-founded and built a $150mm consumer products and online commerce division, and was the founding CEO of pioneer online payments company WebOrder which he took though funding, growth and M&A (now part of Motorola). He was a Group VP and General Manager at consumer products company Newell Rubbermaid where he led the $300mm Global Technology Brands group; and earlier in his career was a strategy and M&A consultant with Ernst & Young.

Mark is an alumnus of UC Berkeley, where he earned his B.A. and MBA degrees. A frequent speaker on innovation, entrepreneurship and competitiveness, he has been broadly quoted including in the New York Times, The Economist , The Washington Post, LA Times and USA Today, and appeared in media ranging from Fox News and The Huffington Post to CNN and ABC Radio.

Edith Yeung - General Partner at Race Capital and event organizer and host 

 - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed 

one of the best venture investments of all time

, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups. 

Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on venture capital, women in leadership, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on 

Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, and fintech sectors. Our team are seed investors in Databricks, Solana, 

, and many other great companies. For more information, visit 

Generative AI: A conversation at UC Berkeley with founders and funders

Full video of the interview will be provided afterwards at 

FoundersHK is hosting a in-person discussion with KK Wong, Cofounder of Xiaomi and Edith Yeung, General Partner of Race Capital and FoundersHK.

Xiaomi was founded by Lei Jun, KK Wong and 6 other co-founders in 2010.  Today, Xiaomi is world third largest smartphone brand ins the world with over 150 million units sold in 2022. The smartphone commodities of Xiaomi include different series such as Mi Series, Mi Note Series, Mi Max Series, Mi Mix Series, Mi NoteBook Series, Redmi Series, Blackshark, and Pocophone. Xiaomi has around 291.6 million active users for its MIUI updates. Besides, the company also offers laptops, mobile apps, mobile accessories, wearables, home appliances, and smart-home devices.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, KK Wong is the Co-founder of Xiaomi Technology, Director of Xiaomi Foundation and former Head of Xiaomi Explore Lab, where he was responsible for Mi cloud, AIoT platform, and Mi Router/VR business unit.

Graduated from Purdue University in Computer Science, KK has spent 14 years in Microsoft since 1997. He built the data analysis system and workflow system of BizTalk in Seattle, then was responsible for the instant messaging, camera/media applications and cellular core framework in Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 in Microsoft China. In 2010, KK co-founded Xiaomi with Mr. Lei-Jun, the CEO of Xiaomi and other partners. KK was responsible for Cloud platform, Mi Router, VR headset(co-develop with the Meta Oculus team), IOT and AI platform in Xiaomi.  KK is now the Director of Xiaomi Foundation.

FoundersHK meet KK Wong, Co-Founder of Xiaomi

FoundersHK is hosting a Zoom discussion with Angela Tang, CMO of Indeed Flex and Edith Yeung, General Partner of Race Capital and FoundersHK.

In today's competitive job market, attracting, hiring, and onboarding the best talent is critical to the success of any organization. However, the process can be challenging, requiring careful planning and execution to identify, recruit, and retain top performers. 

Angela Tang is an accomplished Chief Marketing Officer with 14 years of entrepreneurial, performance-driven, growth experience. She embarked on her career in Hong Kong before joining Indeed Flex (formerly Syft) in 2016 in London. Since then, Angela has been instrumental in building a powerful user acquisition machine, fueling rapid growth and success throughout the years from seed round, series A to a successful exit.

With her leadership, Angela has built a reputable growth engine and brand for the HR technology company, leading to the acquisition of

 in 2019.  Angela is now leading the company's US international expansion efforts and also overseeing user acquisition operations. She has grown her teams from 6 to 130+ members and has attracted hundreds of thousands of job seekers who are looking for temporary work.

As a growth-oriented CMO, Angela is passionate about helping more people get jobs and is always seeking innovative ways to provide a better candidate experience. Her entrepreneurial spirit and expertise in growth have been critical to the success of Indeed Flex.

FoundersHK meets Angela Tang, CMO of Indeed Flex: How to Attract, Hire and Onboard the Best Hires

THIS EVENT IS NOW AT CAPACITY WITH A MASSIVE WAITLIST! 

Proudly presented by Race Capital and Collision, AI vs Hot Wings Pitch Night will be the hottest night during #SFTechWeek 2023.

The hottest AI founders will pitch their startups over a platter of increasingly spicy chicken wings in front of a group of awesome judges (investors, media and founders).

The winning startup will receive a pair of tickets to attend 

 - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem

AI vs 🔥🍗 Pitch Night Hosted by Race Capital and Collision SF #TechWeek

FoundersHK is hosting a Zoom discussion with King Leung, Head of Fintech, InvestHK and Edith Yeung, General Partner of Race Capital and FoundersHK.

In recent months, Hong Kong has emerged as a hub for Web3 and digital assets. This talk aims to provide a comprehensive overview of what's happening in Hong Kong in terms of Web3, digital asset and NFT scene in the city, offering participants a unique opportunity to learn about the latest developments, trends, and challenges shaping the industry. 

As the Head of Fintech at InvestHK, the department of the Hong Kong SAR Government responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment, King’s mission is to enrich the fintech ecosystem and contribute to the innovation of the financial services sector in Hong Kong. King achieves this goal through partnerships with fintech stakeholders – regulators, financial institutions, investors, fintech companies, associations, etc. in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and other major international fintech hubs. 

Prior to joining the government, King had a diverse private sector background as a serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and fintech lecturer in Asia where his first data-related start-up was established through seed investment from Credit Suisse. King was a management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton and KPMG in the US, as well as a venture capitalist at Innovate@, a technology fund jointly run by Booz Allen & Hamilton and Lehman Brothers. King received his MBA (honors) from the University of Chicago and BSc (honors) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

​Edith is a native Hong Konger and General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, 

​Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.

​Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on Crypto, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc

 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.

FoundersHK meets King Leung, InvestHK: What is Happening in Hong Kong and Web3 

Meet with Hong Kong and AAPI founders and investors for a night of networking over drinks and Hong Kong food hosted by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in San Francisco!  

FoundersHK is a global community of founders, technology leaders and investors passionate about connecting Silicon Valley, Hong Kong and the rest of the world. 

Calling all founders or investors to join us!

FoundersHK & Investors Summer Social 2023

Linkedin is the world's largest professional network with more than 930 million members in more than 200 countries and it is a platform you cannot ignore. 

Head of Partnerships at LinkedIn Hong Kong & Taiwan

Nathan Khan is the Head of Partnerships at LinkedIn Hong Kong & Taiwan. In his role, he drives LinkedIn's business growth across both new partnership acquisition and existing clientele. Within the last 7 years at LinkedIn, he has worked with companies of all backgrounds, passionate on advising partners on how to formulate a clear yet strategic direction on how to enhance their people & brand. His key ambition is to bring people closer together through the vision of LinkedIn and embracing the future ways of work.

Prior to LinkedIn, Nathan embarked on a career within headhunting where he served clients across Asia Pacific – working on projects across Banking, Hospitality, Retail, Insurance & Logistics.

Having spent over 12 years working in the talent sector, Nathan is a passionate believer of open-networking and empowering people to be the best version of themselves. He also brings a versatile set of knowledge across talent acquisition, people development, employee happiness & HR fundamentals. Nathan received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia, where he studied Sociology & Economics. In his free time – he enjoys music, spending time with loved ones and enjoying the outdoors with his rescue dog. 

About Nicole Kuo - Enterprise Solutions Manager at LinkedIn Hong Kong & Taiwan

Nicole Kuo is the Enterprise Solutions Manager at LinkedIn Hong Kong & Taiwan, specializing in Talent and Learning Solutions. With a background in marketing, events, and public relations in the FinTech industry in Hong Kong, Nicole joined LinkedIn as a Marketing and Event Executive, where she successfully managed various corporate events and communications, including the LinkedIn Talent Award, LinkedIn Taiwan Day, and Hong Kong Annual Event. 

As an Enterprise Solutions Manager, Nicole partners with corporate clients to transform their talent recruitment and employee learning journey through LinkedIn. She is passionate about assisting clients with change management and employer branding initiatives, helping them to attract, engage, and retain top talent. Outside of work, Nicole enjoys travelling and spending time at galleries, particularly contemporary art exhibits.

Linkedin 101 for Startups Founders 

Proudly presented by FoundersHK, HKG DAO and Web3 Harbour

, join us and connect with awesome Hong Kong founders, investors, developers and Web3 experts for a

social hour to relax and unwind after a long day.

Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Night at Token 2049 [No host bar]

Learning from the best minds driving the Voice AI revolution. Hear their perspectives on the current state and future potential of the generative AI and voice technology, its impact on industries, and the ethical considerations guiding its development. 

This unique gathering brings together trailblazing founders, innovators, engineers and researchers in the field to share their insights, experiences, and visions for the future. Discover the challenges and opportunities that come with building and scaling Voice AI companies.

Paul Ricci - former Chairman and CEO of Nuance

Paul Ricci retired as Chairman and CEO of Nuance in 2018, roles in which he served for nearly two decades. While at Nuance, Paul transformed the company from a $50 million imaging software publisher into a $2 billion

leading provider of conversational speech and AI solutions, solving complex problems in healthcare, telecommunications, automotive and financial services, with 14,000 employees worldwide. Under Paul’s leadership, Nuance developed a healthcare technology business of $1 billion in annual revenue, created a $500 million global provider of customer self-service solutions and built one of the world’s largest automotive software businesses, now an independent public company, Cerence (NASDAQ: CRNC).

More recently, Paul has served as an advisor to Lightspeed Venture Partners and to Warburg Pincus. He has also served on the boards of Personalis, Qualifacts, Intelligent Medical Objects, SOC Telemed and the Innovation Advisory Board of Mass General Brigham. 

Paul holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University, where he is on the board of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.

, based in Mountain View. With over 1B meetings transcribed, 

 is the world’s leading tool for meeting transcription, summarization, and collaboration. Using artificial intelligence, Otter generates real-time automated meeting notes, summaries, and other insights from in-person and virtual meetings - turning meetings into accessible, collaborative, and actionable data that can be shared across teams and organizations. The company is backed by early investors in Google, DeepMind, Zoom, and Tesla. Otter is recognized by The WSJ as one of the Top 10 Generative AI Apps in June 2023.

Previously, Sam was the Co-Founder and CEO of Alohar Mobile Inc. which created the world's first mobile location context platform. Alohar was later successfully acquired by Alibaba. Before that, Sam was the lead of Google Map Location Platform & API for four years.

Sam got his Ph.D in EE from Stanford University, specializing in large scale distributed Internet systems. Sam has over 20 patents.