# Weston Lim

> Weston Coleman Lim is the co-founder and technical lead of Dashlabs.ai, a Manila-based software company that automates the paperwork and instrument wiring of diagnostic laboratories and clinics. He started building during the early pandemic - first an annotated map of neighborhood checkpoints, then the official national dashboard, then form-digitization work for the Philippine Red Cross - before the same team turned that scramble into a lab-software business and landed in Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch. Today Dashlabs.ai runs across more than 200 clinics in the Philippines.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CTO at Dashlabs.ai
- **Organizations:** Dashlabs.ai, Y Combinator (W21)
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** BS, Industrial Engineering, University of the Philippines
- **Known for:** Co-founded Dashlabs.ai and led its engineering, Helped build the Philippines' official national pandemic dashboard, Digitized Philippine Red Cross forms, cutting a 250-patient flight's processing from 8 hours to 1

## Career timeline

- **2020** — Built an annotated map of neighborhood checkpoints during the early lockdown, which grew into the Dashboard Philippines webapp
- **2020** — Team built the official national COVID-19 dashboard (covid19.gov.ph) on a pro-bono basis
- **2020-2021** — Digitized patient collection forms for the Philippine Red Cross, cutting processing times dramatically
- **2021** — Dashlabs.ai accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, one of three Filipino startups
- **2022** — Raised seed funding to expand the lab-software platform
- **2024** — Dashlabs.ai reported working across more than 200 clinics nationwide

## Achievements

- Co-founded Dashlabs.ai and led its engineering
- Helped build the Philippines' official national pandemic dashboard
- Digitized Philippine Red Cross forms, cutting a 250-patient flight's processing from 8 hours to 1
- Reduced certificate turnaround from about two weeks to seven hours
- Took Dashlabs.ai through Y Combinator (W21) as one of three Filipino startups in the batch
- Scaled the platform to more than 200 clinics across the Philippines

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Dashlabs.ai profiled as automating lab diagnostics across more than 200 clinics in the Philippines

## Links

- Website: https://dashlabs.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weston-l-b75327b9
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/westoncolemancl
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dashlabsai

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Last updated: 2026-07-31