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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