Roy Lu
Partner at LongHash Ventures
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Strategy & TGE Lead
2024 - Current
At 0G, I had the privilege of leading and scaling teams through both high-growth and high-stakes environments. Focused on driving narrative direction, tokenomics clarity, and strategic impact while building the internal trust and alignment necessary to execute at scale. Most proud of helping the team grow and adapt through shared mission, accountability, and structure. 0G is building the world's first DeAIOS to make AI a Public Good. 0G raised over $300M from Tier 1 VCs including Hack VC, Delphi, and Bankless Ventures, and pioneered the Largest AI L1 Ecosystem with over 300 ecosystem partners.
0G Labs is a technology startup developing a web3 modular infrastructure platform to build applications on low-latency data feeds.
Raised $325,000,000.00 from Kudasai, nonce Classic, IBC Group, Abstract, Blockchain Builders Fund, Adrian Cheng, OKX Ventures, Hack VC, MV Global and Bankless Ventures.
Partner
2023 - 2024
At LHV, I sourced and led investments into 0G, Ether.fi, Union, and Hyperbolic — building trust with and advised visionary founders at the intersection of AI and crypto. As a member of the Investment Committee, I played a key role in shaping portfolio strategy and capital allocation decisions. I also led associates in deal sourcing, evaluation, and investment decisions — focusing on building strategic conviction, market alignment, and narrative strategy. LHV values strong conviction and deep partnership with crypto-native visionaries. Select portfolio includes Balancer, zkSync, Safe, Dodo, and Coinshift. We specialize in helping protocols bootstrap ecosystems and scale market presence.
Partner
2022 - 2023
Hashkey Capital, with $1B+ AUM, is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in visionary blockchain founders. Since founding in 2015, Hashkey has invested in the most enduring blockchain companies including dydx, Blockdaemon, CoinList, FalconX, Cosmos, Ava Labs, and Dapper Labs.
MBA Senior Product Manager - Technical
2021 - 2021
Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
MBA Growth Equity Investor
2019 - 2020
Venture capital and growth equity firm with $10.2Bn in AUM across Silicon Valley, China, India, and Israel. Portfolio include Affirm, Blend, Carta, DoubleClick (NSDQ: DCLK), Docker, Grafana, Arctic Wolf, Snapchat (NYSE: SNAP), Pinduoduo (NSDQ: PDD), Ripple, and more.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Fullstack Tech Lead
2017 - 2019
AI SaaS Unicorn backed by Lightspeed, Temasek, and GGV. Sub-10 employee, full stack engineer promoted to tech lead, and helped take Black Lake from 0 to 1.
Software Engineering Manager
2014 - 2017
Fortune #24. Provided data storage and security solutions.
Biochemical Engineer
2013 - 2014
Fortune #153. Provided antibody therapeutics molecular testing.
Genentech specializes in genetic testing and personalized medicine.
Education
MBA Candidate
2020 - 2022