Denis LamFounder

United States - San Francisco Bay Area

Denis is the CEO of VitaBowl, a food + tech startup, and CEO of Vera Labs, a FinTech startup that provides decentralized financial solutions via NFT and Web3 technology. Denis is originally from Silicon Valley, California and has over a decade of cross-functional experience as a full-stack product engineer, entrepreneur, and advisor for several technology startups, Fortune companies, and blockchain-centric venture capital firms. Previously, Denis was part of the founding team that built a two-sided marketplace in telehealrh with medication fulfillment and insurance claims automation which scaled to 30+ states and over $100 million in 12 months.

In the crypto space, Denis has been involved since 2017 as an investor, advisor, and entrepreneur for several successful projects. He was an early supporter of Layer 1 projects such as Tomochain, Solana, and Hedera Hashgraph, and crypto lending platforms such as Nexo. Previously, he also founded a boutique blockchain and NFT consulting agency with several notable achievements such as:

* Being 1 of 2 firms (out of 1,000+ global applicants) that won the opportunity to build blockchain PoCs with Fortune companies in the Plug and Play global accelerator.

* Won the opportunity to architect and develop blockchains for Northern Trust (the #4 bank in the world with $14 trillion+ in assets), BitRail (PayPal for compliant crypto payments), Kodak One (media asset IP-management blockchain), a major e-commerce marketplace, and NASA.

* Developed and launched the first Hollywood movie NFT earlier this year with Oscar-award winning actor Anthony Hopkins.

* Won a grant from Web3 Foundation earlier this year to build NFT smart contracts.

Denis has a degree in Biotechnology Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and is currently based in various places in the Pacific West Coast.