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Richard Liu

RootdataList 2024

Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Huma Finance

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Richard Liu is Huma Finance co-founder and co-CEO and Foothill Ventures Investment Partner. He was previously an engineer at Meta, director of engineering at Google, and senior manager at Oracle. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, a Master of Automation from Tsinghua University, and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Sichuan.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Elytro Elytro
Seed -- $ 3.1 M
Mar 16, 2023

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Zhong Shao

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Changhao Jiang

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Sernam Lim

Dr. Sernam Lim is currently the director of the Everlyn Project and an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Florida. He has a strong research background in the field of Artificial Intelligence and has published over 100 academic papers. Dr. Lim was previously the AI Engineering Manager at Facebook, where he founded Facebook Sora, Make-a-Video, and LLaMA. In addition, he served as Director of Research at General Electric (GE) and Head of GE's Computer Vision Lab.

Erbil Karaman

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Won Soh

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Victor Zhou

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Haichen Shen

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Arran Schlosberg

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Adrian Wang

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TY Shao

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