Henry Shi is a technology entrepreneur based in

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. He co-founded Super.com (formerly Snapcommerce) in April 2016, and went on to serve as COO/ CTO. Shi previously founded uMentioned, a local social discovery network.

Early life and education

Shi started his early education in

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, where he graduated at the top of his class in high school and later from the

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. Shi was also admitted to the

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but decided to drop out instead. In 2010, He went to University of Waterloo, Canada to pursue his bachelor's degree in

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. In 2016, He joined Georgia Tech's OMSCS and now serves on the advisory board of the College of Computing. Shi was also given the Rising Stars award by Georgia Tech in May 2023.

Career

Shi started his career as a

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at Scotia Capital while he was doing his bachelors in 2011. In January 2012, during his co-op term in

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he joined

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as a

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and built

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software in scouting and predictive analytics for the

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. Shi interned at LendUp in the company's early days when they only had ten employees. During his term at Google in 2014, He built and launched 'Music Insights' for

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. Shi had been featured in

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, The Information, and

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. In 2020, he was accepted into The Next 36 program.

Super.com

Launched in 2016 as Snapcommerce by Hussein Fazal and Shi, Super.com is a savings and earnings application with fintech, rewards and travel use cases. Fazal leads Super.com as CEO along with Shi as COO/CTO. The company has grown to over 200 employees and $150M in revenue annually. In 2024, Super.com was named America's 45th fastest growing companies by

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. Major investors of the company include

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, Inovia Capital, and Lion Capital.

Investments

Shi has been an

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and

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in various AI startups including Ollama, LlamaIndex, Fal.ai, Higgsfield AI, Fileread, Superblocks.

Awards and recognition

* Consumer Technology,

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, 2019. * Entrepreneur of the Year Ontario region, EY Entrepreneur of the Year, 2022. * Young alumni achievement award,

, 2022. * GATech Rising Stars, 2023.

References