Sherman Lee
Founder of Deep Ventures
Sherman Lee
Founder of Deep Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder
2017 - Current
A decentralized & distributed deep-learning training protocol. Providing cost-efficient and faster training of deep neural networks.
Co-founder
2020
We invest in deep technical problems that are nearly impossible to solve.. unless the right founders are tackling it.
Co-founder (Techstars London 2014)
2013
Good Audience is a tech publication that features the Rising Stars of Deep Tech. They feature industry leaders who have hands-on experience in pushing the limits of innovation in artificial intelligence, blockchain, space technology, agriculture, pandemic relief, and much more. 200+ authors, 22K+ email subscribers, 250K+ readers, 100K+ social media followers, and worked on over 3,000 social media accounts. Not bad for some coders! I was one of the co-founders and no longer have an operating role. I do still advise on strategic decisions, growth, and facilitate introductions in my network.
Limited Partner
2017
LP at one of the earliest decentralized funds in the world investing in blockchain technology
Co-founder
2016
Rocco is an AI-assistant which creates and posts content for you on social media. It was a hobby that was inspired by my work at Good Audience. I wanted to answer the question: could AI replace a human social media manager? After spending thousands of dollars on AI training every month, I realized the answer was not today, but maybe in 10-20 years. That led to my work on Raven Protocol.
Partner (Acquired)
2018 - 2020
I was the partner at this VC firm that focused on funding AI and blockchain companies. We started in Hong Kong, raised three accelerator funds, partnered with Softbank's Deepcore, invested in 60 companies, expanded to Tokyo/Bangalore/HK, and was acquired by Animoca Brands (a leader in blockchain gaming).
Director, Product Management and User Experience
2012 - 2012
- Co-founder of the on-demand car repair service - Did customer development at every SF gas station - Dialed in on problems drivers were willing to pay to have solved - Partnered with mechanics and acquired paying customers - Made the hard decision to shut the service down - Fully developed the operational model and found profit margins per transaction were too low
Sr. Product Manager
2011 - 2012
- Product lead in the Special Projects group of Yahoo! Search - Initiated innovation projects aimed at the global product line for web search - Drove execution across global teams in engineering, research and design - Led a team of scientists to integrate their research into products as Head of Science
Software Engineer
2007 - 2010
- Engineering lead on Yahoo's Content Platform serving hundreds of sites today - Scaled it from 0 to 600M users - Hadoop for cloud computing and storage - Machine learning and data mining to enrich content - Web application development on frontend and backend - Part-time product manager, platform evangelist and prototyper
Software Engineer
2006 - 2007
- Engineering lead at the former AskJeeves - Data Warehouse using Oracle Rack for storage - Frontend and backend development on Local and Maps products - Statistical learning for content enrichment
Software Engineer Intern
2005 - 2005
- Engineering and product lead on Yahoo! Code Search - Developed and evangelized the entire application from concept to launch - Created custom indexing and crawled open source code repositories