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Calvin Ling

Director of Finance and Investment Operations at Unusual Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Director of Finance and Investment Operations

    2024

    Unusual Ventures is raising the bar for what founders should expect from their venture investors. We enable startups with the hands on support and expertise they need to be successful during their early stage journey. https://www.unusual.vc/

2022 - 2024

  • Principal

    2022 - 2024

    OVN Capital backs top-tier founders building businesses in categories including deep tech/frontier tech. The portfolio includes CesiumAstro, Databento, Pronto AI, and Venus Aerospace.

  • Chief of Staff

    2020 - 2024

    PI helps companies increase revenue by helping them source customers, find product-market fit, and use new productivity software tools. PI's engineers run fast - yes actually, they run marathons quickly.

2020 - 2024

  • Founding Principal

    2020 - 2024

    As Founding Principal, my responsibilities included sourcing, managing deal flow, conducting due diligence, research, and fund administration/managing back office. My claim to fame: I came up with the Prefix name. Investments include Manus Bio, Base Operations, Neutrolis, Rewrite (exit), Replace (exit), Symmetry Systems, Via Science, SwiftComply, Epoch, and several others.

2023 - 2024

  • Interim CEO and CFO

    2023 - 2024

    Pain pain, go away! (not an official slogan)

2021 - 2024

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2024

    Vidrovr is a platform that automatically searches, indexes, and retrieves content from live streams and video archives. Vidrovr's clients include the world's leading media companies and multiple government agencies.

2019 - 2024

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2024

    SwiftComply works with cities and water authorities across North America to help modernize their operations and future-proof their compliance programs against the changing regulatory landscape.

2016 - 2024

  • General Manager

    2018 - 2024

    Portfolio management? Did it. Back office? Lived it. Deal flow and pipeline? Built it. Due diligence? Ran it.

  • Associate

    2016 - 2018

    Seed-stage generalist fund. I had a portfolio of responsibilities (ba dum tiss), ranging from property management to investments to fund administration. 415.com.

  • Strategic Alliance Intern

    2015 - 2016

    Thought about cars + technology all day. Met ASIMO's clone. We launched Honda Xcelerator and worked with engineers and entrepreneurs to drive the development of proof-of-concept prototypes to transfer to other divisions within Honda R&D.

2015 - 2016

  • Resident Computer Consultant and Treasurer

    2015 - 2016

    Refilled the printer paper and managed dorm money.