James Hong

Angel Investor (pre-seed)

2004

Particular interest in Machine Learning or Biotech related companies. Portfolio companies include: Health / Biotech -------- Athelas(merged w/ Commure) Clear MD(closed) Decade ECM Therapeutics Emerald Cloud Laboratory Emerald Therapeutics Enable Medicine (acquired) Freenome Hexagon Bio Klyne Latch Lydia.ai Orca Biosystems StemCentrx (acquired by Abbvie) Tegmine Machine Learning based stuff ------------------------ Animato AI Arcee Basebuild BlackBox AI Cetient CTRL-Labs (acquired by FB) Deep Infra Deep Sentinel FormLogic Kneron Lambda Labs Nimble.AI Rito Foods Runway ML Zagmo Crypto-related ------------------------ Alchemy Bitgo Chia Civic Dinari Metatheory Just Tech ---------------- 9GAG Adku (acquired by Groupon) Alive Not Dead / Alive.cn (acquired - Mig33) AngelList Anomaly AnyQuestion App Barbecue (acquired - Pear Therapeutics) Atrium HQ Baobab Beautylish BitTorrent (acquired) Breezeworks (shutdown) Brondell Cardpool (acquired by Blackhawk Network) Connectifier (acquired by LinkedIn) Crunchyroll (acquired - AT&T) Doodle Deals (acquired - Plum District) EMQ Fixed (shut down) Frappr (acquired by Slide) Gaston Labs (acquired by Facebook) GGWP Glow Grouper / Crackle (acquired by Sony) Green Mango (shut down) Hatch Hook Mobile (acquired) Hooked IMO Learnboost (acquired - Automattic) Leo Group Lime Listia Locket Labs Lookmark (shut down) Markov (shut down) Medium Mission Motors (shut down) Mochi Media (acquired - Shanda) NextLesson Nuzzel (shut down) Odeo (became Twitter) Ostrovok.ru / Emerging Travel Perceptual Networks (shut down) Playbook Plays.tv (shut down) ProfitFuel (Acquired - Yodle) Quid Raptr (acquired) Revnetics (shut down) Rune (shut down) Samba.tv Safer Kid Self Aware Games (acquired - BigFish Games) Simply Hired (acquired - Recruit Holdings) Slide (acquired by Google) Social Concepts SpaceX (SPV) Spot-On StoryJumper TopHatter Travelbank (acquired by US Bank) Upsight (Kontagent) Xatori (Acquired by Recargo) Xmfish.com (Acquired) Younoodle Workflowy

Professional Chauffeur

2009

Neverending and thankless job servicing the needs of overly demanding clientele.

Trustee

2013 - 2019

Served on UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees

Creator

2014 - 2015

Learned Objective-C and built Cakey, a YouTube app for kids.. mainly because I needed something like it to give my own kids. Give it a try! iPad and iphone: http://Cakey.co/ios

Cofounder

2000 - 2008

With no funding, my friend and I launched and scaled a website that in 6 weeks became the 20th most trafficked website in the world. Honed my ability to rate people over a period of 8 years. We were also the first online service to use the now dominant double opt-in dating model (where both people have to approve of each other before being able to communicate).

Co-founder

2000 - 2000

Website I started with my brother Tony, built as a hobby to promote the adoption of webservices (and particularly the SOAP protocol) in the early days of Web 2.0. This led to the creation of HOTorNOT, which was conceived during a brainstorm about killer app consumer web services.

Reader

1994 - 1998

Served as the grader of homework and exams for EE122 (Introduction to Communication Networks) for a couple semesters ('94 and '98)

Product Manager

1995 - 1997

Worked on Spectrum Analyzers and Mobile Network Drive Testing equipment

Math and Chemistry Tutor

1987 - 1991

Food Service Worker

1987 - 1987

cooked food, ran registers, cleaned bathrooms, washed hands.