Henry A. Lee is Co-Founder at Akkari, a YC-backed (Spring 2026) AI platform that autonomously manages customer operations from the first sales call through expansion.

Henry studied Computer Science at Stanford University and previously co-founded OrderAhead (YC W11), a mobile ordering platform acquired by Square after reaching millions of users and thousands of merchants, backed by Marc Benioff, Eric Schmidt, and Jerry Yang.

A 2x YC founder with a proven track record of building and scaling startups to acquisition, Henry brings deep expertise in product engineering, fundraising, and go-to-market strategy.

Henry also co-founded BLADE, a crypto derivatives exchange backed by Coinbase and SV Angel, which scaled to over $1.2B in monthly trading volume before closing.

Through OrderAhead and BLADE, Henry and his co-founding team demonstrated the ability to scale platforms to millions of users and billions in transaction volume, now applying those lessons to redefine how startups run customer operations with AI.