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Yat Siu (Chinese: 蕭逸; born 1973) is a Hong Kong-based entrepreneur and angel investor, who was born and raised in Vienna, Austria.

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His initial job was at Atari Germany. Years later Siu became a director and head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.

After moving to Hong Kong, he founded Cybercity, an Internet and email provider, in 1996. The company was later renamed to Freenation, which the South China Morning Post called "Asia's first free web page and e-mail provider".

Yat Siu is also the CEO and Founder of the game-company Outblaze and co-founder of Animoca and Animoca Brands. In 2009 he sold a part of his business to IBM's Lotus Software Division which opened its first cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong with the assets it acquired from Outblaze. Animoca Brands was worth 2.2 billion dollars in its last funding round.

He is a member of the advisory board of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and on the board of directors for the Asian Youth Orchestra.

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