Waikit Lau

• Waikit Lau is the founder of Brightwing Capital, a venture firm with a concentrated focus on artificial intelligence and decentralized technologies.
• His investment approach is characterized by a deep technical understanding and a preference for technologies at meaningful inflection points where fundamental shifts in architecture or approach can create outsized impact.Lau's technical expertise is particularly evident in the AI space, where he has a notable focus on voice-related technologies.
• His career in this field spans decades, beginning with work on early text-to-speech systems like DECTalk at the MIT Media Lab.
• This background has informed his investment thesis, with Cartesia—a company pioneering state space models for real-time voice AI—standing out as one of his most prominent investments.
• His tweets reveal genuine excitement about technical breakthroughs in this space, particularly the shift from transformer models to state space models, which he describes as a "major phase change" in text-to-speech technology.In the blockchain and Web3 space, Lau has backed infrastructure-focused projects like pod.network (focused on real-time auctions), Rhinestone (a Web3 security solution), and Axelar (blockchain interoperability).
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