Adam Lee has spent the last 15 years working with startups across crypto, cloud, and consumer tech. He currently leads Corporate Development at Berachain. Previously, he was the first business hire at Thirdweb, where he helped raise a $24M Series A. Before that, he built and led Hot Startups, a stealth initiative at AWS focused on identifying and backing high-potential startups with support Amazon didn’t publicly disclose. Earlier in his career, he founded an innovative guitar brand that went through 500 Startups in 2014, alongside nine Bitcoin startups, where he first got introduced to crypto.