# Theo Lee

> Theo Lee is a 19-year-old British-Hongkonger founder who has been building Internet infrastructure since he was 11. He has sold two companies, a VPN with more than 160,000 devices and a cloud host running 5,000+ VMs, and more than $2M a year, and now runs compute.inc, an independent network spanning 34 datacentres in 23 cities across four continents, with more than $60M in annual revenue across the group. He also founded the Kent Internet Exchange and is a licensed private pilot.

## Timeline

- 2017: brought his first server online, aged 11
- 2018: launched a VPN, aged 12
- 2020: sold the VPN with 160,000+ devices and about $1.5M annual revenue; started a cloud host
- 2024: sold the cloud host with 1,000+ customers, 5,000+ VMs and $2M+ annual revenue
- 2024: built the first platform to auto-provision RPC and validator nodes on demand; passed $2M ARR within the year, then wound it down
- 2025: HomeDAO alum (Oxford founder residency behind pump.fun and EXO Labs); still interviews its applicants
- Today: runs compute.inc

## compute.inc

compute.inc runs its own backbone, AS9515, alongside AS219070 and AS399670. It sells GPU servers, colocation, dedicated servers and IP transit from 34 datacentres in 23 cities: Maidstone, London, Lille, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Zurich, Lupfig, Chiasso, New York, Secaucus, Ashburn, Charlotte, Dallas, Kansas City, Phoenix, Fremont, Toronto, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, Sydney and Auckland. It peers at 14 Internet exchanges and hosts infrastructure for Fortune 500 companies. Group revenue exceeds $60M a year.

## Also

- Founded the Kent Internet Exchange (Kent IX) in Maidstone, since extended into Telehouse North and Digital Realty LHR20 in London. Route servers AS40115 and AS218849. Free 1G ports.
- Operates six autonomous systems in total, including AS219018 for DroidHub, a decentralized robot control interface that won the largest single prize at Junction, the world's largest hackathon.
- RIPE NCC LIR and member of ARIN and APNIC.
- Sponsors research and education networks, non-profits and selected projects with free transit, BGP, IP space and servers through AS9515, and works with and sponsors networks through MoeDove (AS44324, AS53808).
- Partner of Virtualized.gg, a US hosting company.
- Private pilot (PPL(A), UK CAA), flies a Cessna 152 from Enstone, Oxfordshire; has flown hardware into datacentres himself.
- Based between Oxford, Kent and Hong Kong.

## Links

- Website: https://theo.com.hk/
- compute.inc: https://compute.inc
- AS9515: https://bgp.tools/as/9515
- Email: theo@compute.inc
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tlhk
- X: https://x.com/infratheo
- GitHub: https://github.com/tlsol
- Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/theo-lee-1e35