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Linus Liang is an American entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Embrace Innovations and Embrace  , a social enterprise startup that aims to help premature and low-birth-weight babies in developing countries   through a low-cost infant warmer. Previously he co-founded CLZ concepts which was sold to Zynga.

Early Life
Linus was born in Berkeley, California in 1981. He attended the UC Berkeley and then Stanford University. While at Stanford he was a frequent contributor to the Stanford Daily.

Career
In 2007, Liang started a Facebook game company called CLZ Concepts with two classmates. Their games became very popular, with over 20 million users, and Zynga acquired CLZ Concepts soon after.

Embrace Innovations
During his graduate studies at Stanford, Liang and a few classmates were assigned a class project to design a low-cost infant incubator for rural areas. In 2008, they co-founded Embrace, a non-profit organization, to bring their project to life. In 2012, Embrace adopted a hybrid structure and created Embrace Innovations. In 2012, Embrace Innovations raised its Series A round of financing from Vinod Khosla's Impact Fund and Capricorn Investment Group.

The first product was the Embrace infant warmer, which costs about 1% of a traditional incubator and is currently being used in clinics in India and 10 other countries. It is estimated to have helped over 50,000 babies to date. The incubator was most recently used to help babies in Ukraine.

In 2013, Liang and the other co-founders of Embrace received the Economist Innovation Award for Social and Economic Innovation. In the same year, the World Economic Forum recognized Embrace as Schwab Social Entrepreneurs of the Year.

Kyber Knight Capital
In 2022, Liang founded a venture capital firm called Kyber Knight Capital , a $120M VC fund focused on early-stage startups. Linus also lectures at Stanford on technologies and investing.

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Category:Living people Category:Stanford University alumni Category:Winners of The Economist innovation awards