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University of California, Berkeley

Quintessential Metageneralist & Meritocrat  -  -  Cross-Functional/Domain Problem Solver

San Francisco Bay Area

OD No Code
OD Community Builders
OD Angels
OD Writers
OD Fellows
LP @ Runway Fund
Investor @ Series A (via SPV)

Solving cross-functional BHAGs throughout the aggregate venture ecosystem (more details TBD). Feel free to reach out if you might be interested in any collaborations across this seminal research & development area.

On Deck

Venture Generalist

Led a syndicate investment through DoorDash Angels (<a href="https://angel.co/s/doordash/kM4ul">https://angel.co/s/doordash/kM4ul</a>).

Dastgyr

Investor  -  -  Syndicate Lead

LAAM

ATMOS Financial

Insured Nomads

Investor

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/11/e-commerce-as-a-service-platform-cart-com-picks-up-98m-to-give-brands-scaling-tools/">https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/11/e-commerce-as-a-service-platform-cart-com-picks-up-98m-to-give-brands-scaling-tools/</a>

Led a syndicate investment through DoorDash Angels (<a href="https://angel.co/doordash/syndicate">https://angel.co/doordash/syndicate</a>).

Cart.com

Hack VC

Limited Partner

Bloom Venture Partners

Cleo Capital

FullCircle is a perpetual pre-seed fund focused on the changing composition of the workforce and technologies serving the needs of working caregivers, deskless workers in traditionally low-tech industries, as well as independent workers.

The Fund invests up to $250k into initial rounds ranging $500k-$1.5M. We are highly collaborative and network-driven, co-investing with the angels and small early-stage funds founders want around the table.

FullCircle

A100x Ventures

Nomad Ventures

Among the top-tier syndicates on AngelList.

Mana Ventures

FundersClub

Be one of the first and most dedicated partners, both pre-and post-investment, to mission-driven entrepreneurs who are building companies in the categories of healthier living, human capital, and
sustainability and the environment to drive meaningful outcomes for their businesses, for Looking Glass, and for Looking Glass’ investors.

Looking Glass Capital

Photon Commerce

The Unfair Truth About Capital

Last year, less than 3% of VC dollars* went to female-led companies and more than 75% of founders were white. We want to bridge the gap for those who aren’t born with a pre-existing network and community, making capital accessible to the best talent, regardless of race, gender or background.

The Venture Collective is a gateway to creating equal opportunities for anyone with the will and determination to succeed. We are your infrastructure.

The Venture Collective (TVC)

Network for top entrepreneurial/venture generalists at the post-collegiate age range (late 20s).

Comma Capital

The LegalTech Fund is a top fund in its category of bringing together the legal and technology domains in the venture ecosystem, transforming the world of law and improving access to law. The team and advisors are experts in the world of law, who we help keep aware of new technologies and they help to diligence companies.

The LegalTech Fund

NachoNacho is a Marketplace for B2B SaaS (TAM = $200 Billion). It is a 2-sided marketplace with strong network effects, where Buyers are SMBs (up to 1,000 employees) and Sellers are SaaS vendors.

NachoNacho

Today, high-quality small businesses are overpaying for their loans due to heavy regulatory fees in commercial banking, which drive up borrowing costs 2%-3% higher than they should be. As a JOBS Act enabled marketplace, we eliminate these regulatory fees and save the best small businesses 10%-20% on their loan payment amount.
At the same time, today retail investors have limited options to earn a solid yield on their unused money, usually opting to ‘store’ it in zero-interest bank account deposits. Trillions of dollars of value are trapped in these deposits. So we engineered a new asset class called The Small Business Bond to give investors higher yields (6%-9%), with minimal risk (< 2% LGD), and ultimately all the liquidity and security of their bank accounts.

SMBX

Conscience VC invests into early-stage consumer companies embracing deep tech and data.

Conscience VC

<a href="https://shl.vc/">https://shl.vc/</a>

Sahil Lavingia is investing $10 million a year into early-stage technology startups, mostly via $100K-$250K checks.

shl.vc

Nostra.ai delivers personalized web experiences to each unique visitor. Gone is the labor intensive “one-size fits most” approach to designing and testing web pages. Nostra generates and tests thousands of variants to deliver measurable increases in real time. No more if/then functions (i.e. Marketo / Dynamic Yield) or experimentation. Now marketing teams can focus on strategy while sessions take care of themselves. Within 600 visitors, out of 81 variations, Nostra can produce the optimal website 96% of the time and within 3,000 visitors we produce the right website of 99% of the time.

Nostra

- Indirect investment, via SPV)

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/hustle-fund-backs-fintor-which-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-invest-in-real-estate/">https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/hustle-fund-backs-fintor-which-wants-to-make-it-easier-to-invest-in-real-estate/</a>

Fintor

<a href="https://www.polymathcp.com/">https://www.polymathcp.com/</a>

Polymath Capital is a remote-first firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies with an emphasis on community, longevity, and financial democratization. As an operator-led venture capital firm, we see the best early-stage deals first.

Polymath Capital

Equi is building Wealthfront for the private markets. Rather than just investing in stocks and bonds, EV is targeting an 8% - 12% rate of return that will get you diversified access to the private markets (real estate, private credit, etc.) and is not correlated to the stock or bond markets.

Equi

The most scalable venture fund in the world, powered by our unfair & sustainable advantage to generate consistent & superior returns, via access to the global startup, corporate, and investor ecosystem through its proprietary insider investor network at an unprecedented scale.

VU Venture Partners

<a href="https://www.countdown.capital/">https://www.countdown.capital/</a>
<a href="https://jaimalik.medium.com/introducing-countdown-capital-b31cca7cdc52">https://jaimalik.medium.com/introducing-countdown-capital-b31cca7cdc52</a>, <a href="https://masterplan.substack.com/p/master-plan-jai-malik-countdown-capital">https://masterplan.substack.com/p/master-plan-jai-malik-countdown-capital</a>

Countdown Capital

In Essence, we are founders with a mission to help highly technical founders go from zero to one.

Essence Venture Capital

<a href="https://www.formulateventures.com/">https://www.formulateventures.com/</a>

- Hi! I'm Morgan. I am the founder and General Partner of Formulate Ventures. I am an AI engineer turned AI founder turned AI investor, and I am passionate about investing in technical founders and early-stage B2B companies.

Academic Network: I have access to best-in-class companies because of my MIT/Stanford/Harvard network.

CTO/VP Eng Network: I have been curating a network of world-class CTO and VP of engineering by bringing Fortune 1000 engineering executives alongside CTOs to share experiences with my portfolio companies via panel dinners. I've gained exposure to many hard-to-access projects in the DevOps/Infrastructure/Middleware space via this community.

I love learning about new innovations, working with founders, and investing into high potential startups. I invest first and foremost in people, second in markets and third in ideas. I believe high caliber founders will always find a path to success."

Formulate Ventures

<a href="https://www.pioneerfund.vc/">https://www.pioneerfund.vc/</a>

YC's flagship affiliate venture fund.

Our vast network of YC alumni provides access to YC's top startups.

Our 200+ Venture Partners' depth of expertise and experience allows us to evaluate hundreds of companies at once across all verticals and regions.

Pioneer Fund

<a href="https://twitter.com/backendcapital">https://twitter.com/backendcapital</a>

Lucy Guo and Dave Fontenot probably know more young engineers than anyone else in Silicon Valley. Marc Andreessen backed their first fund. You should meet them.

They invest in brilliant engineers as early as possible.

Before closing their first fund on 2020/01/31, Lucy founded Scale.ai ($3B valuation) and Dave started the largest hackathon in the world.

Backend Capital

Array Ventures is an enterprise deeptech pre-seed fund. Array leads investments in technical founders that want to build venture scale businesses by helping them with initial go-to-market. Our GTM approach has lead over 70% of our companies to raise follow-on rounds from top firms. We have marked down just $310k across 2 funds despite the stage we invest - pre-seed.

Array Ventures GP: Shruti Gandhi
Shruti is an engineer turned founder and investor with 6 exits to companies such as Apple, Paypal, ServiceNow, and The We Company. Shruti has invested in 45 companies at Array Ventures across 2 funds. Prior to Array she invested for True Ventures and Samsung Next Fund. She is a CS professor at Columbia University.

Array Ventures

Commercial Open Source Software (COSS) is the future of Software as a Service (SaaS). See the fund's business and investment thesis at <a href="https://coss.media/for-an-open-future/">https://coss.media/for-an-open-future/</a>

OSS Capital, L.P.

<a href="https://capitalx.company/">https://capitalx.company/</a>

CapitalX - Early Stage VC

The credit card of tomorrow. The smartest card that doesn’t require your credit score.

Learn more: <a href="https://www.tomocredit.com/">https://www.tomocredit.com/</a>

TomoCredit

Full-time until summer 2020.

Doorstead is a technology-operations company. We are a full-service property management brokerage that provides cash-flow certainty to rental property owners. Traditionally, property managers (NPS 8) overpromise on rent to sign owners, creating months of vacancy and lost income. By collecting precise data during inspections and leveraging historical rental data, we are able to provide an unconditional rental guarantee to owners (ex. $3,500/mo starting in 28 days).

- more to follow later - engineering / technology / data; cross-functional generalist]

Doorstead

Co-founder, CTO  -  -  Investor

Narrative: bit.ly/bliang-doordash-interview

Technical:
-  Integrated Apache Airflow into v0 data warehousing system in order to improve ETL job tracking and dependency management. Together with production troubleshooting, maintained 99% SLA on daily ETL runs.
-  Redesigned and drove rollout of the experimentation / tracking infrastructure leveraging open source technologies to improve data integrity, logging, correctness, and ease of operation.
-  Upleveled an entire backend engineering team of ~5 through technical roadmapping, regular technical group discussions, mentoring and developing multiple engineers, and direct technical contributions. Solved numerous critical performance issues and made significant performance improvements in the Scala/JVM-based stack.
-  Member of "architecture group" of senior engineers responsible for making key technical decisions, vision-setting, and guiding execution for the entire engineering team. Bridging the gap between product and infrastructure.
-  Pioneered the transition towards a proper cloud-native microservice infrastructure on Kubernetes/Helm/Draft/Jenkins/etc, conducting extensive research & development and proactively networking with industry leaders in the space to accelerate the team's rate of learning. Supported onboarding of 30+ microservices onto internal platform from legacy PaaS.
-  Pivoted to developer experience in general to balance tooling investments in both microservices and the existing monolith, leveraging efforts of ~5 team members.

Organizational:
-  Revamped key parts of the backend engineer pipeline to be properly seniority-aware, and provided effective guidance to the technical recruiting team on operations of nearly every hiring funnel outside frontend/mobile.
-  Initiated organizational optimizations for overall engineering team efficiency, thereby getting more output from the same people while unofficially investing in and enhancing other colleagues' professional trajectories even outside of own team.

DoorDash

Software Engineer  -  -  Engineering Lead

- Created pipelined webpage technology in combination with a modern JVM JavaScript engine to decentralize JavaScript webpage template processing and improve user-perceived page load time
-  Early member in the effort to integrate the Typesafe Play! web framework into the internal web application ecosystem as a more robust and developer-friendly alternative to a similar legacy in-house framework, playing a wide range of roles in this startup-like team during the maturation process
-  Seminal architectural development to overhaul company-wide static content distribution methodology towards a more robust and streamlined system that can be scaled to multiple separate datacenters
-  Developed a "news feed as a service" platform that can be deployed and customized in a variety of contexts with relatively little proprietary configuration, most notably devising an algorithm heavily leveraging Scala’s functional programming capabilities to implement a domain-specific language of customizably complex aggregation rules for news feed items culled from various different sources
-  Enhanced and scaled a content decoration pipeline built on Apache Kafka capable of joining entity information to raw data for displaying in the legacy news feed, and later migrated the the new news feed platform service to consume this data under an improved entry representation paradigm

LinkedIn

Senior Software Engineer

Significant overhaul of an inefficient system to enable human operators to merge NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas map data at scale. Early work on a system to intelligently detect deviations of in-transit vehicles from their intended routes.

This is not my patent, but I essentially overhauled it to yet another level by enabling the merging to happen on a finer granularity level than what was patented, thereby considerably improving the productivity levels of the tooling operators and quality checkers by being able to focus and iterate on smaller chunks of work at a time: <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US6564224B1">https://patents.google.com/patent/US6564224B1</a>

Bernard Liang

Bernard Liang