Exploring the fluffy edge of AI
Founder. Mentor. Advocate.
Previously built the real-time AI startup ecosystem at Agora and led accelerator programs at Berkeley SkyDeck.
With deep roots across startups, AI, and design, Bing brings a pragmatic and encouraging lens to early-stage building. A former founder herself, she understands the chaos and clarity-seeking of zero-to-one, and has supported fellow founders through narrative shaping, early traction, and practical strategy work.
Today, she is exploring the fluffy edge of AI, blending emotion, intelligence, and design through SYNAPUFF — imagining more human-centered ways technology can feel warm, soft, and alive.
Previously, Bing built the real-time AI startup ecosystem at Agora and led accelerator programs at Berkeley SkyDeck. She is also a certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator and a long-time advocate for founders and inclusive innovation.
Mapping the arc
Bing’s path has never been linear. She began in industrial design, trained in both aesthetics and engineering — a foundation that shaped how she thinks about people, objects, and the experiences between them. Her early creative work in editorial storytelling and visual design grounded her in clarity, craft, and meaning-making.
A deep-dive feature on Google’s modular phone (Project Ara) became a quiet turning point. Interviewing the creative minds behind it opened her eyes to a world she hadn’t explored before — the world of early-stage technology, startups, and ideas still taking shape. It was the moment she realized she didn’t just want to stay in the creative world — she wanted to explore the technology world where these ideas were imagined, built, and pushed forward. That spark pulled her into the startup and venture world, where she began supporting early founders and discovering new ways technology shapes human experience.
Her curiosity kept unfolding. She moved more deeply into startups — building, experimenting, and learning across design, systems, and emerging technology. This eventually led her into real-time AI, where she co-founded a company exploring how intelligence can be embedded into live interactions and training experiences. Working at the edge of AI and human behavior expanded her lens on what technology could feel like.
Today, the threads connect naturally: everything she’s building sits at the crossroads she’s been circling all along — design, emotion, intelligence, and the human experience.
This space is simply her home base: a place to reflect on the arc of her work, share what she’s learning, and support early and under-represented builders navigating their own beginnings.
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