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Sydney Lai
Founder of Codecorgi
New York, New York
Overview
Sydney Lai, currently serving as the Head of Developer Advocacy at GaiaNet.AI, has a strong background in entrepreneurship and community development. With experience as a Chief Technology Officer at EVM Capital and a Co-Founder at Codecorgi, Sydney has excelled in strategic planning and leadership roles within the tech industry.
Work Experience
Chief Technology Officer
2023 - Current
EVM Capital is Investing in the future of the decentralized workplace.
Head of Developer Advocacy, Co-Founder
2024
open-source dev tool to manage decentralized LLMs
GaiaNet is a pioneer in decentralized AI technology.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Kishore Bhatia, Shawn Ng, EVM Capital, Mirana, Lex Sokolin, Mantle Network and ByteTrade Lab.
Keynote Speaker, Developer Advocate
2015
Topics: blockchain, aerospace, strategy, growth, emerging technologies, VR, network effect, startup communities, fundraising, venture capital, DAO governance, gaming, entering new markets Past speaking: MCON 2021 - DAO Conference Women Who Code Summit 2021 Women in Banking Forum 2021 DeveloperWeek Global Enterprise 2020 Mintbean Hackathon 2020 Harpa Concert Hall, Iceland 2020 Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College 2019 DevRelCon San Francisco 2019 DevRelCon Tokyo 2019 Flatiron School 2019 Blockchain 2020 Fintech Week NYC 2018 Music x Blockchain 2018 Blockchain Conference New York 2018 FundingPost Conference 2018 Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College 2018 University of South Carolina, School of Journalism 2018 Startup Day 2017 TEDx Speaker 2016 Burning Man 2015 TechCrunch 2015 AppsWorld 2014
Co-Founder, Software Development Agency
2015
Developing open-source projects Material Design dev shop building web and mobile for Web2 & Web3 Previously built: Aintro (2015) - resume platform VREX 360 Studio (2016) - Create VR apps and 360 videos Growth Barn (2017) - Innovation for rural Communities Spotme Lending (2017) - disrupting the Payday Loan Industry Sebra (2018) - Payment integration Super Boss Mode (2019) - esports career platform MGD (2020) - DAO to fund and support women-led projects
Codecorgi develops commercial technologies for aerospace, blockchain, virtual reality, health tech, financial services, and open-source.
LP
2020 - 2024
Raised PE debut fund
Practical Venture Capital is a VC secondary firm providing liquidity to LPs and GPs.
Angel Investor
2018 - 2024
Angel syndicate providing capital to startups, co-investing alongside with Pre-Seed-Series A VC funds. Investing in venture secondaries. FUNDS Practical Venture Capital, Backstage Capital COMPANIES Utrust, Coral Protocol, Miney Moe, Paperstreet, Status Money, Velly, Gumroad
Technical Guest Reporter
2020 - 2023
Sr. Developer Advocate
2022 - 2023
Magic is a developer of SDK that integrates with applications to enable password-less Web3 onboarding and authentication.
Raised $83,000,000.00 from Volt Capital, Northzone, Synchrony Ventures, Cherubic Ventures, Kx Technology Fund and PayPal Ventures.
Visiting Lecturer, CSCI 9551, Master's in Information Systems
2018 - 2022
CIS 9551 - Blockchain Technologies and Ap https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/courseinfo/detail/CIS9551
Web3 Developer Advocate
2018 - 2022
Senior Polkadot Ambassador
2020 - 2021
Polkadot Ambassador
2020 - 2020
Developer relations for Polkadot, Kusama, Substrate, interoperability of blockchain
Technical Apprentice
2019 - 2020
Sr. Associate - Technical Diligence
2022 - 2022
Technical lead on game diliegence