Benny Kok
| Benny Kok | |
| Occupation | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Comfy Deploy |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founding Comfy Deploy |
| Education | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (attended) |
Benny Kok is a Hong Kong-born software entrepreneur and co-founder and chief technology officer of Comfy Deploy, a platform that enables teams to collaboratively build, share, and deploy AI-powered media generation workflows using ComfyUI. The company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch and is based in San Francisco.[1]
Early life and education
Kok was an undergraduate student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He paused his studies to pursue Comfy Deploy full-time after the company was accepted into Y Combinator in 2024.[2] Prior to founding Comfy Deploy, Kok served as chief technology officer of another company for approximately two years.[3]
Career
Kok began Comfy Deploy as a side project and met his co-founder, Nicholas Kao, through Twitter in January 2024.[3] The two were subsequently selected for Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch and relocated to San Francisco.[1]
Comfy Deploy addresses limitations of ComfyUI, the open-source framework widely used for building media generation workflows involving Stable Diffusion and other AI models. ComfyUI traditionally operates as a single-user, locally hosted application requiring a dedicated GPU, making collaboration and sharing of workflows between team members difficult. Comfy Deploy provides a cloud-based collaborative workspace where teams can share environments, models, and workflows via links. The platform includes managed GPU infrastructure supporting hardware such as H100, A100, B200, and other accelerators, version control for workflows, shared storage for models and outputs, and the ability to deploy any workflow as a production API without additional engineering work.[4]
As of 2025, Comfy Deploy has raised $2.2 million in funding from investors including Haystack VC and Y Combinator.[2] The platform has also been open-sourced.[4]
In 2025, Kok was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in the AI category.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Comfy Deploy – Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Comfy Deploy – Forbes Profile". 'Forbes}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Benny Kok – HKUST Founders Club". 'Hong Kong University of Science and Technology}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Comfy Deploy". 'Comfy Deploy}'. Retrieved 2026-03-18.