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Honghao Deng

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Founder at Butlr

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedButlr

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About

Honghao Deng is the CEO and Co-founder of Butlr Technologies Inc., a company working in context-aware architecture through the integration of IoT and AI. He holds a Master of Design Technology with Distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design and previously worked as a researcher at the City Science Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research has been published in venues including UIST, SIGGRAPH, and CHI, and he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022.

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Butlr's investors · 19

1Flourish CapitalMountain View500 GlobalPalo Alto · $150K checks · since 2019AlabasterSydney · since 2021Founder CollectiveCambridgeFoundryBoulder · $250K – $15M checksGS FuturesSeoulHDS CapitalNew York CityHyperplane Venture CapitalBoston · $250K – $3M checksOpen Network LabTokyoParticleHong Kong · $1M – $6.9M checksPrimetime PartnersNew York · $250K – $1M checks · since 2022Qualcomm VenturesSan Diego · $5M checksSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Palo AltoTaiwan Global AngelsBerkeley · $300K – $3M checksTectonic VenturesBostonThe E14 FundCambridge · $1M – $5M checksUNION Labs VenturesSan Mateo · $500K – $2.5M checksWorkshop Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $3M checksZEMU Venture CapitalHong Kong

Co-founders at Butlr

JZJiani Zeng
Jiani ZengFounder

Experience

  1. ButlrChief Executive Officer, Co-foundercurrent2019 — present
  2. MongoDBAdvisor to CEO, VoyageAI2024 — 2025
  3. MIT Media LabProject Lead and Research Affiliate2016 — 2018
  4. AirbnbUX Research Scientist2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area

Skills & more

Augmented Reality10Architectural Design11Human Computer Interaction10Unity3D3C#3Grasshopper3Digital FabricationCExecutive ManagementInternet of Things (IoT)SensorsWireless Sensor Networks
+4 moreData VisualizationNew Business DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentProduct Management

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Who is Honghao Deng?
Honghao Deng is the CEO and Co-founder of Butlr Technologies Inc., a company working in context-aware architecture through the integration of IoT and AI. He holds a Master of Design Technology with Distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design and previously worked as a researcher at the City Science Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research has been published in venues including UIST, SIGGRAPH, and CHI, and he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022.
Where does Honghao Deng work?
Honghao Deng is Founder of Butlr.
What companies did Honghao Deng found?
Honghao Deng founded Butlr.
Where did Honghao Deng go to school?
Honghao Deng studied at Harvard University (Master’s Degree, Computational Design); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cross-Registered, Media Arts & Sciences); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Undergraduate Visiting Student, Media Arts and Science).

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