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Elvin Fu

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Elvin Fu
CEO & Co-Founder of
CodeWisp (2025)
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Elvin Fu is Founder of CodeWisp, an AI-powered platform that lets anyone build and publish web games using plain-English prompts. CodeWisp is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.

Before founding

Elvin studied Computer Science at the University of Washington and has been making games since age 10. He previously worked at Amazon Web Services and taught coding classes at 15.

Founder Insights

Elvin is Top 20 most followed on Scratch (out of 135M+ users) with 80k+ YouTube subscribers and won Best Implementation of Checkbook API at Stanford's hackathon out of 1,700+ participants. He built two game engines from the ground up.

Experience

CodeWisp is backed by Y Combinator and based in San Francisco with 3 employees. His games have been played and downloaded 4+ million times.

Scale & Impact

Elvin has taught 22+ million people game development online through his YouTube channel and courses, reaching students worldwide with his educational content.

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Elvin Fu

CodeWisp
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Elvin Fu

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CodeWisp

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Media & Entertainment

Year Founded

2025

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About

Elvin Fu is Founder of CodeWisp, an AI-powered platform that lets anyone build and publish web games using plain-English prompts. CodeWisp is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.

Before founding

Elvin studied Computer Science at the University of Washington and has been making games since age 10. He previously worked at Amazon Web Services and taught coding classes at 15.

Founder Insights

Elvin is Top 20 most followed on Scratch (out of 135M+ users) with 80k+ YouTube subscribers and won Best Implementation of Checkbook API at Stanford's hackathon out of 1,700+ participants. He built two game engines from the ground up.

Experience

CodeWisp is backed by Y Combinator and based in San Francisco with 3 employees. His games have been played and downloaded 4+ million times.

Scale & Impact

Elvin has taught 22+ million people game development online through his YouTube channel and courses, reaching students worldwide with his educational content.

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