Eric Diep is a Toronto-born founder in the technology, consumer, and crypto industries. He is the founder of Manifold, an NFT infrastructure developer, and the co-author of the first US patent for systems and methods to support real-time chat on mobile devices. He is also the founder emeritus of A Thinking Ape Entertainment, a top-grossing game developer on Apple and Google Play, and an angel investor. Eric studied mathematics and fine arts at the University of Waterloo before dropping out to join Y Combinator in 2007.