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Cambridge Build House
About CBH
A collective of Cambridge minds building the future from the ground up.
The Pain
Cambridge spin-outs are an outlier asset class, with 1,310% increase in capital raised.
But, our founders still lack the basics:
- Access to investment
- Physical space
- Compute
Our Solution
- We exist to help the most ambitious Cambridge founders go all-in on their ideas and launch impactful companies.
- Not an accelerator. Just a hacker house.
- A builder community where talent, capital, and space come together.
Our Sponsors
NVIDIA
OpenAI
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Cambridge
Highlights
Cambridge Build House X NVIDIA Pitch Competition
Cambridge Build House x OpenAI Vibe Coding Hackathon
Cambridge Build House x Shenzhen Nanshan Founders Exchange
Meet Our Team
Mandi Li
Co-founder
Academic depth: MPhil in Sociology & AI, University of Cambridge; AGI research fellow at Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative. Co-founder & Research Lead of ChatQuine, a philosophical large language model, and author of multiple peer-reviewed papers on LLMs, informatics, and the societal impact of AI.
Industry pedigree: Ex-ASML Development & Engineering Department. Now working in the gaming industry.
Serial Entrepreneur: Founded the ASML Artificial Intelligence Club, a 70+ engineer community at ASML researching ML's commercial applications in the semiconductor industry. Clear Ventures Deeptech Fellow 2025.
Thought leader: Featured Speaker at RTL Dutch National Television News' Prime Time Cover Story; AI guest speaker at Jesus College Cambridge Intellectual Forum.
Magan Chin
Co-founder
Academic depth: MPhil in Technology Policy, University of Cambridge; former Computational Neuroscience and International Security Policy student at Columbia University.
Cross-sector experience: Worked across consulting, finance, government, and tech. Served as Senior Class President at Barnard College.
Startup builder: Currently building FIG, a company developing AI for the future of government services—focused on making public systems more efficient, accessible, and citizen-friendly.
Thought leader: Creator of GenZBestie, a digital platform empowering 10K+ students and young professionals with insights on AI tools, career development, and financial literacy. Garnered over 2M+ views and partnered with companies like OpenAI, Handshake, Crimson Education, and PrepScholar.
Sam Hui
President
Sam is a final-year History and Politics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge. He has multidisciplinary expertise spanning strategy, corporate finance, management consulting and public policy, having served on the committees of the Cambridge University Consulting Society, the Cambridge University Marshall (Economics) Society, the Cambridge University Chinese Society and the Cambridge University Society for History, and as a FIG and FinTech Analyst at the Cambridge Investment Banking Society. Sam has successfully delivered board-level partnership materials, executed retail portfolio performance diagnostics for a supermarket operator, including margin, category and operational efficiency analysis, and authored Asia-Pacific private credit research encompassing lender landscape mapping, sector theses and deal pipeline assessments.
Muhammad Ali
Digital Lead
Ali is a sociologist of technology who recently completed his MPhil in New Media and Culture at the University of Cambridge, after earning an MA in Islamic History and Humanities from SOAS. His work focuses on digital memory and its contemporary applications, including how AI, digital artifacts, and alternative realities on social networks reshape collective identities. Ali has pioneered concepts such as crypto-ludic activism and co-founded Pakistan’s first casebook on media manipulation, advancing critical debates on digital activism and disinformation.