5x founder

Nelson Lai

CTO and Cofounder @ Color (a16z SpeedRun, NFX, Parable)

Co-founder

Azimov· 005 San Francisco Bay Area

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2024Co-founder· Color

Founder · since 2007

Company

Color

Role

CTO and Cofounder

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Azimov

An engine to bring AI to life (2.5M ARR)

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Experience

Career

Color
Co-founder
CTO and Cofounder · 2024 – Present
2024
AI for Social Good
Founder
Technical Founder · Shanghai · 2023 – 2025
2023
Blitz
CEO, China · Shanghai, China · 2021 – 2022
2021
Riot Games
Head of Technology, China · Shanghai City, China · 2018 – 2021
2018
GE Digital
Director of Engineering · Shanghai City, China · 2016 – 2018
2016
Ecommerce Data Consulting
Founder
Founder · Shanghai City, China · 2016
2016
VMware
Founder
Sr. Engineering Manager · Shanghai City, China · 2012 – 2015
2012
Harmonix Music Systems
Team Lead - Web · Cambridge, MA · 2010 – 2012
2010
Fitango
Web Scalability Consultant · New York City, New York · 2009 – 2011
2009
Athleague
Co-founder
Co-Founder + VP of Engineering · Cambridge, MA · 2007 – 2010
2007
France Telecom R&D Boston
Senior Research Specialist · Cambridge, MA · 2004 – 2007
2004
idealab!
Firmware / Hardware Engineer · Boston, MA · 2003
2003
idealab!
Windows App Developer · Boston, MA · 2002
2002
Microsoft
Intern - Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) · Seattle, WA · 2001
2001

Bio

CTO of Riot Games China. CEO of Blitz.gg China. Founding Engineer at Picasa (acq. by Google in 2004). Studied EECS at MIT, where I coded neural networks by hand (no PyTorch back then). Born in Montana. Grew up in California.