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Yat Siu

Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong. Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail provider in Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions’ System Integration practice. He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.

via: IBM to buy Outblaze

Yat is also responsible FON’s operations in China.

via: FON

Recent Milestones

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Company Date Round Size Participants
Snaptee 2/13Seed$600k4
Dopplr 9/08Angel24
Dopplr 9/08Angel24

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Yat Siu at Google Zeitgeist 2007

Added: 3/1/13

Sources

    Outblaze Gets to 30M Installs, 30% Higher ARPU on Android than on iOS (insidemobileapps.com) [edit]
  1. Snaptee Gets $600K In Seed Funding To Turn Smartphone Users Into T-Shirt Designers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Business Travel Social Net Dopplr Gets Funding From Tom Glocer, Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  3. Business Travel Social Net Dopplr Gets Funding From Tom Glocer, Others (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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