Linus Liang

Linus Liang (born August 16, 1981) is an entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the non-profit Embrace, which makes a low-cost infant incubator. Liang also co-founded CLZ Concepts and was an early employee of Zynga. Liang currently serves as the co-founder of Embrace, which has distributed hundreds of infant incubators across rural India .

Early life and education

Liang was born in Berkeley, California and raised in Saratoga, California. He attended Saratoga High School and graduated in 1999.

Liang holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer science (CS) from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked at Microsoft as a Program Manager for two years, and then attended Stanford University to further his CS studies, earning a Master of Science degree.

Career

CLZ Concepts

After graduating from Stanford, Liang and two fellow students launched their first startup, CLZ Concepts, a Facebook Application game company. The games grew to having over 20 million users and CLZ Concepts was acquired shortly afterwards by Zynga.

Embrace

While at Stanford, Liang and several fellow graduate students were assigned a class project to create a low-cost infant incubator that could be used in poor and rural areas. In 2008, they co-founded Embrace, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, to bring their project to life.