Henry Shi | |
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| Education | Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 2011-present |
| Organization | Super.com |
| Board member of | Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing |
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Henry Shi is a technology entrepreneur based in San Francisco, California. [1] He co-founded Super.com (formerly Snapcommerce) [2] in April 2016, and went on to serve as COO/CTO. [3] Shi previously founded uMentioned, a local social discovery network. [4] [5]
Shi started his early education in John Fraser Secondary School, where he graduated at the top of his class in high school and later from the University of Waterloo.[ citation needed ] Shi was also admitted to the Stanford Graduate School of Business [6] but decided to drop out instead.[ citation needed ] In 2010, He went to University of Waterloo, Canada to pursue his bachelor's degree in Computer Science. [7] In 2016, He joined Georgia Tech's OMSCS and now serves on the advisory board of the College of Computing. [8] Shi was also given the Rising Stars award by Georgia Tech in May 2023. [9]
Shi started his career as a programmer analyst at Scotia Capital while he was doing his bachelors in 2011. [10] [ failed verification ] In January 2012, during his co-op term in New York he joined Bloomberg as a Software Developer and built sabermetrics software in scouting and predictive analytics for the MLB. [11] [12]
Shi interned at LendUp in the company's early days when they only had ten employees. [4] During his term at Google in 2014, He built and launched 'Music Insights' for YouTube. [13] Shi had been featured in TechCrunch, The Information, and Forbes. [14] [15] [ unreliable source? ] [1] In 2020, he was accepted into The Next 36 program. [16]
Launched in 2016 as Snapcommerce by Hussein Fazal and Shi, [17] Super.com is a savings and earnings application with fintech, rewards and travel use cases. [18] [19] [20] Fazal leads Super.com as CEO along with Shi as COO/CTO.[ citation needed ] 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 Financial Times. [21]
Major investors of the company include Steph Curry,[ citation needed ] Harley Finkelstein, Inovia Capital, and Lion Capital[ citation needed ]. [22] [23]
Shi has been an Angel and Seed investor in various AI startups including Ollama, LlamaIndex, Fal.ai, Higgsfield AI, Fileread, Superblocks.[ citation needed ]