JW

James Wang

General Partner, Creative Ventures & Co-Founder of Lioness

Oakland, California

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2016

    Investing in technologies that directly attack the most pressing global macroeconomic trends, including demographic changes straining our healthcare system, secular labor shortages, and the effects of climate change.

2019

  • Board Director

    2019

  • Board Director

    2021

2020

  • Board Observer

    2020

  • Board Director

    2022

  • Board Director

    2022

2013

  • Co-Founder

    2013

    Lioness builds women's health products that empower women to learn more about their bodies and take control of their health. Learn more about us at http://lioness.io.

  • Product Marketing Manager

    2014 - 2014

    Makani is working to accelerate the shift to clean, renewable energy by developing energy kites, a new type of wind turbine that uses lightweight electronics, advanced materials, and smart software to generate more energy with less materials—all at lower cost. Led cross-functional team across engineering, operations, legal, PR, and policy at Google[x] on planning and executing launch announcement for Makani's first utility-scale energy kite pilot.

2013 - 2013

  • Recurser

    2013 - 2013

    YC-backed "Writers' retreat for Programmers." Developed computer vision algorithm for discovering embedded duplicate images, a desktop text editor, and various AIs for constrained games. Independent and group research mainly focused on topics in low-level systems, distributed systems, networking, and concurrency.

  • Senior Analyst and Investment Associate

    2010 - 2013

    Fundamental, systematic global macro hedge fund in Westport, CT. Directed a team of analysts, which advised and managed accounts for some of the largest institutional investors in the world.

Latest Articles

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The AI Executive Order

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