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Chon Tang

Founding Partner at UC Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

Berkeley, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $100,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founding Partner - Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

    2017

    Berkeley SkyDeck is the premier accelerator within the University of California, Berkeley ecosystem. The SkyDeck Fund works with UC Berkeley to identify and build the next generation of moonshot startups.

  • Co-Founder / Chairman

    2013

    Co-founder of Catchpod / Kaiqiaole, leading high-technology provider of document management services to enterprises located in China. By creating and integrating revolutionary technology for document asset tracking, we are helping transform business work-flows for our leading customers. Customers include publicly traded international and domestic firms like the Bank of China, CITIC Bank, Xinhua Insurance.

2005 - 2017

  • Angel Investor

    2005 - 2017

    2016 seed investments include: Hyperloop One, AdHawk, StrongArm, Laasie, Ora, Avail, LittlStar, OpenTrons, Routific, Circle Medical. I have long felt passionate about entrepreneurship. Originally as founding member on a number of startup teams, and more recently as an active angel investor with my own capital. I've funded 30+ companies over the past 13 years, including two IPOs and multiple acquisitions.

  • Managing Director

    2008 - 2013

    Junzi Capital Engineering, LLC applies a combination of quantitative insight and computing technology to the financial markets. JCE is registered with the National Futures Association as both a commodity trading adviser and commodity pool operator. Junzi delivered 55% annualized gains (with a max draw-down of 9% and Sharpe of 1.2) over its life-time, reaching a total AUM of $30 million with investments from leading FoFs, family offices, and private investors. I chose to retire Junzi after 6 glorious (and exhausting) years for new challenges.

2000 - 2007

  • VP-Engineering

    2000 - 2007

    Developer/designer of applications for x86-based embedded controller boards. Widely used for both prototyping and OEM applications, our products add valuable capabilities ranging from image sensors, to embedded ethernet, to a wide array of other industrial I/Os. Also established/manage representative offices located in Shenzhen, China.

2000 - 2000

  • Co-founder

    2000 - 2000

    Co-founded company formed out of of HBS business plan competition; focused on delivering technologies for a new "attention marketplace" consumer portal that filters out spam, and prioritizes commercial email based on value to the user.

1997 - 1997

  • Research developer

    1997 - 1997

    Worked on compiler optimizations as part of IA64 research group.

1996 - 1996

  • Software developer

    1996 - 1996

    Worked on a development tool for the initial Mac version of Microsoft Office.