Kambria Open Innovation Ecosystem
Kambria is an open innovation platform for Deep Tech (AI, Robotics, Blockchain, VR/AR, IoT...). Via our platform especially with Kambria DAOs, anyone can collaborate in researching, developing and commercializing deeptech solutions and get rewarded fairly for their contributions.
Through partnerships with government agencies, top universities and leading companies, Kambria is dedicated to building a sustainable open innovation ecosystem to change the way we innovate and to accelerate advanced technology development and industry adoption.
Together, let’s shape the future of technology where technology is open and contributes more to society.
Kambria Open Innovation Ecosystem
Kambria is an open innovation platform for Deep Tech (AI, Robotics, Blockchain, VR/AR, IoT…). Via our platform especially with Kambria DAOs, anyone can collaborate in researching, developing and commercializing deeptech solutions and get rewarded fairly for their contributions.
Through partnerships with government agencies, top universities and leading companies, Kambria is dedicated to building a sustainable open innovation ecosystem to change the way we innovate and to accelerate advanced technology development and industry adoption.
Together, let’s shape the future of technology where technology is open and contributes more to society.
Kambria DAOs
A way for community to co-own a technology is now open, and step by step, we are coming closer to the vision of democratizing technology ownership and accelerating innovations.
Each Kambria DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) is started by a Dev Team submitting their proposal to Kambria with a solution of technology they can develop and open for community to co-own.
Community collectively buys into the solution by participating in the DAO.
Then Dev Team starts to develop the solution and the development progress will be managed monthly.
The DAO as owners of the solution will decide and contribute to the commercialization of the solution, as well as get paid from their contribution.
Kambria DAOs
A way for community to co-own a technology is now open, and step by step, we are coming closer to the vision of democratizing technology ownership and accelerating innovations.
Each Kambria DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) is started by a Dev Team submitting their proposal to Kambria with a solution of technology they can develop and open for community to co-own.
Community collectively buys into the solution by participating in the DAO.
Then Dev Team starts to develop the solution and the development progress will be managed monthly.
The DAO as owners of the solution will decide and contribute to the commercialization of the solution, as well as get paid from their contribution.
Tokenomics
Kambria tokens are necessary for interactions in the ecosystem:
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Solution seekers: issue and award deeptech challenges, buy NFT IP licenses
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Innovators: earn tokens for developing deeptech solutions and licensing IPs
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Manufacturers: earn tokens through hardware production
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Community members: use tokens to fundraise for Kambria DAOs, to become owners of the DAO technology solutions and get revenue sharing when the solutions are commercialized; or use tokens to purchase products and earn tokens from technology promotion work...
Tokenomics
Kambria tokens are necessary for interactions in the ecosystem:
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Solution seekers: issue and award deeptech challenges, buy NFT IP licenses
-
Innovators: earn tokens for developing deeptech solutions and licensing IPs
-
Manufacturers: earn tokens through hardware production
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Community members: use tokens to fundraise for Kambria DAOs, to become owners of the DAO technology solutions and get revenue sharing when the solutions are commercialized; or use tokens to purchase products and earn tokens from technology promotion work...
Social Impact Innovation Alliance
With the Social Impact Innovation Alliance, we are inviting tech communities to come together and join forces to harness the power of technology for positive social change.
SPOTLIGHT
Calling for Dev Teams to submit proposals to develop solutions of Open Tech For Future Society. The most promising solutions will be nurtured within new DAOs designed specifically for their development.
SPOTLIGHT
Calling for Dev Teams to submit proposals to develop solutions of Open Tech For Future Society. The most promising solutions will be nurtured within new DAOs designed specifically for their development.
Team
Founders and Leadership
Dr. Thuc Vu
FOUNDER & CBO | AI
Jared Go
FOUNDER | ROBOTICS
Tingxi Tan
FOUNDER | BLOCKCHAIN
Lien Cao
CEO
Prof. Tra Vu
CFO
Advisors
Prof. Manuela Veloso
AI & ROBOTICS
Simon Seojoon Kim
HASHED
Dr. Loi Luu
KYBER NETWORK
Poseidon Ho
OUTLIERS VC DAO
George Li
WETRUST
Dr. Long Vuong
TOMOCHAIN
Lily Sarafan
HOME CARE ASSISTANCE
Michelle Tsing
ROBOTICS FOR GOOD
Ro Charlz
VICKERS VENTURE PARTNERS
Kenzi Wang
AU21
Roger Lim
NEO GLOBAL CAPITAL
Caesar Chad
AI & BLOCKCHAIN
Dhana Pawar
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Jill Nguyen
PARTNERSHIPS
Dr. Minh Nguyen
RESEARCH
Dr. Thuc Vu
FOUNDER & CBO | AI
Dr. Thuc is a serial entrepreneur, with multiple company acquisitions, the last one by Google. He has deep expertise in game theory, tournament design and multi-agent systems. He earned his PhD from Stanford and BS from Carnegie Mellon, both in computer science. Dr. Thuc is a social entrepreneur in Vietnam, involved in several community projects.
Jared Go
FOUNDER | ROBOTICS
Jared is an avid maker and roboticist, previously CTO and founding member at a networks startup. He has extensive experience in blockchain, AI, real-time graphics, VR, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. Jared is a Stanford Graduate Fellow and has a BS in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Tingxi Tan
FOUNDER | BLOCKCHAIN
Tingxi has a background in cloud computing, network infrastructure and distributed system design. He has been active in Crypto Investment since 2010. He was responsible for building the global scale cloud infrastructure at a networks startup. He graduated from MSc Computer Science U of Calgary and BSc Applied Math Western University.
Prof. Manuela Veloso
AI & ROBOTICS
Manuela Veloso is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She was the President of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, IEEE, AAAS, and ACM. She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.
Dhana Pawar
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Dhana Pawar is a seasoned business and product, management executive. She launched award-winning, innovative products with an emphasis on delighting consumers. She has led teams to develop compelling applications which led to strategic acquisitions and mergers. Her other expertise includes product management, product strategy, end to end product development and partnerships.
Jill Nguyen
PARTNERSHIPS
Jill Nguyen is the Head of Partnerships of Kambria. In this role, she is responsible for growing the company's customer base, brand presence and strategic partnerships. She joined Kambria in August after 3 years at Phone2Action, a software company in Washington DC, where she was the Director of Digital and Partnerships and joined the company at the post-seed stage as the 5th employee. In this role, she created the Customer Success team from the ground up, managed a team of Digital Account Managers, and was responsible for revenue retention, growth, customer support, community building, and operations for the company. She pioneered the customer marketing program and led numerous initiatives to grow the community of Phone2Action users across the country.
Prior to joining Phone2Action, Jill worked for some of the largest non-profit organizations in the United States. Born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam, she came to the United States at 14 to attend high school, and later Hendrix College where she was awarded of the only International Student Scholarship in her class. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Prof. Tra Vu
CFO
Tra has a background in Financial and Civil Engineering. She earned her Master's in Financial Engineering and her PhD in Transportation Planning & Engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Tra currently teaches at her alma mater and was responsible for leading her previous company in designing the first city-wide Transit Signal Priority system in New York City.
Dr. Minh Nguyen
RESEARCH
Graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with a Ph.D. in Genetics, Minh has gained broad research expertise in cancer study and its genetic root. She received her B.S/M.S in Biochemistry from George Mason University and was awarded the best graduate student for her class. She believes that an active open AI and robotics platform will advance research in every field exponentially, especially in Medical Sciences.
Lien Cao
CEO
Lien began her journey at Kambria in early 2018 as the Vietnam Operations Director. In 2020, she led business development efforts in Vietnam as the first hub, finetuning Kambria's business model before scaling it globally. In May 2022, she was promoted to the role of CEO, where she now oversees the execution of Kambria's initiatives, operational excellence, community engagement, and tokenomics.
She played a pivotal role in shaping Kambria's open innovation model, particularly the Kambria DAOs , which drive the adoption of open technology and community-led initiatives. This model fosters collaborative innovation, promotes sustainable solutions, and accelerates technological advancements with a positive societal impact.
Simon Seojoon Kim
HASHED
Simon Seojoon Kim is CEO and founding partner of Hashed, a leading crypto fund based in South Korea. He is a Blockchain evangelist and organizer of Hashed Lounge, a premier Blockchain Seoul meetup community. Prior to Hashed, Simon was a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded numerous companies. He served as Chief Product Officer at Knowre, an ed-tech startup that was named one of World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company.
Loi Luu
KYBER NETWORK
Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.
Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente, the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain.
Nam Nguyen
TAGCHAIN, TAG VENTURES & GOURMET GALAXY
Mr. Nam Nguyen is the Founder of Tagchain and TAG Ventures, one of the leading Venture Funds in South East Asia. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of Gourmet Galaxy (GUM), an innovative Yield Farming platform.
As a Kambria advisor, Mr. Nam will consult on upcoming products, support our expansion to new markets and strengthen our company structure.
Poseidon Ho
OUTLIERS VC DAO
Poseidon Ho founded Outliers and managed Outliers Fund I (16x), Fund II (11x) and raised a $50M Fund III for investing in Web3 & Metaverse in 2022-2026.
Outliers Lab #1 incubated 9 Web3 startups (including Kambria) with two on path to filing IPO and $100M+ raised collectively.
In 2022, Outliers Fund III was deployed on Ethereum and became Outliers VC DAO, one of the world’s first Collective Intelligence-driven VC, running all fund terms/operations on smart contracts.
Prior to founding Outliers, Poseidon researched Collective Intelligence & Reality Computing at MIT Media Lab, Microsoft Research, and San Diego Zoo Research.
Poseidon studied M.S. Computer Science at University of Washington (dropout), M.Eng. Data Science at Tsinghua University (dropout) and B.A. Management Information Systems at National Taiwan University.
Poseidon has 4 research fellowships, 20+ international design & programming awards.
Roger Lim
NEO GLOBAL CAPITAL
Roger Lim is an experienced angel and blockchain investor. He is the Founding Partner of NEO Global Capital and an advisor for projects like Bluzelle, Qlink, CoinFi, Thekey, Tomocoin, 0Chain, Switcheo, Open Platform, and nOS. He is also a successful entrepreneur who founded Webvisions, an Asian cloud hosting company.
George Li
WETRUST
George is an ex-Googler who previously co-founded CottonBrew, a Stanford StartX computer vision company. Prior, he held roles in Corporate Strategy and Infrastructure at Google, and was a consultant at McKinsey. He holds a M.S in Management Science Engineering from Stanford and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Eng from Rutgers.
Dr. Long Vuong
TOMOCHAIN
Long Vuong is CEO and founder of Tomochain, a public blockchain infrastructure providing an innovative solution to the scalability problem with the Ethereum blockchain. He is often invited as guest speaker of many reputable blockchain events around the globe. Prior, Long Vuong was co-founder and the former project lead of very successful NEM blockchain (New Economy Movement). He is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UMass-Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.
Lily Sarafan
HOME CARE ASSISTANCE
Lily Sarafan is CEO of Home Care Assistance, the leading consumer health company in the $100B in-home care market, with a mission to change the way the world ages. Under Lily's leadership, HCA has grown from startup to industry champion with more than 7,000 employees across 160 markets in the United States, Canada and Australia. Lily is also an investor and advisor for startups and VC firms and a mentor for 500 Startups, StartX and Endeavor. She serves on boards for high-impact organizations including the Stanford Alumni Association, the Freeman Spogli Institute, the BerkeleyHaas Center for Innovation Economies, Shared Studios, and the Women's Alzheimer's Movement. Lily holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and B.S. in Science Technology and Society with a minor in Middle Eastern Studies from Stanford University, where she was Eben Tisdale Fellow and Class President. She has been honored as Women Health Care Executives' 2016 Woman of the Year, Ernst & Young's 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year, and a Silicon Valley 40 Under 40. Lily is a member of YPO and Chatham House and a 2017 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
Michelle Tsing
ROBOTICS FOR GOOD
Co-founded a blockchain payments startup in 2015 and is a strategic ICO advisor. She is also a mentor for SVI Academy and Hack Temple and advises a number of startups in 3D printing, AI, biotech and social sharing. She founded Robotics for Good: Chatbots, Messaging and AI community; and donates her time to both The Loving AI XPRIZE Project and Robots Without Borders. She is also producer and host of Laptop Radio at Stanford University.
Ro Charlz
VICKERS VENTURE PARTNERS
Ro Charlz is a technology evangelist and serves as an investment professional with Vickers Venture Partners, one of the world's leading tech-focused venture capital firms whose team has been involved with several prominent unicorn start-ups. Ro covers a wide-span of sectors including blockchain, robotics, AI, IoT, mobility, automotive tech, automation, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and general consumer tech. Ro has previous experience in the energy sector and serves as an active angel investor and advisor to several start-ups. He comes from a background in professional motorsports as a consultant to the automotive industry with a focus on tech development for over 10 years, consulting to several of the world's largest automotive makers.
Kenzi Wang
AU21
Kenzi Wang is the Co-founder of AU21, a venture capital firm focused specifically on the blockchain ecosystem. Before starting AU21, Kenzi was CEO and Co-founder of Traction Labs. In addition, he founded Fantoon Growth Labs and Growthathon. Kenzi has deep knowledge of exchanges and the crypto markets. Kenzi studied Mathematics at Columbia University and graduated with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
Caesar Chad
University of Science and Technology of China
Caesar Chad is an expert in Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. He currently works as a Professor of Finance at the University of Science and Technology of China where he has published several academic papers on blockchain technology. He is also the Vice President of Sino-Israel Blockchain Research Institute. Caesar has co-founded several blockchain research companies, including ArteToken, Bitconch, and Cronus. Caesar is the author and patent holder of POR consensus algorithms and has been an early adopter and advocate of blockchain technology since 2010. He is a former developer at Google, contributor of Ethereum and Technical Lead at IBM.