JL

Jun LI

Founder and General Partner at Wisemont Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $150,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder and General Partner

    2015

    Wisemont Capital is a VC fund with offices in Seattle and Silicon Valley. The fund is focused on early-stage technology startups, especially in AI, SaaS, and automation. We have invested in many high-growth companies at their very early stage, including Weride.ai, Stella Cyber, Neuvector, Percept.ai, Picnic, Wibotic, Scaleflux, Zingbox, Apptopia, Subtle Medical, LoopGenomics, MultiplyLab, BulkMRO, etc.

2007 - 2015

  • Managing Partner of Beyondsoft Ventures, SVP

    2015 - 2015

    Responsible for US investment in technology startups

  • Senior Vice President

    2007 - 2014

    • Responsible for building and managing over $65 million IT solutions and services business and 2000+ person organization. • Took over what’s now Strategic Accounts Business Group (SABG) at $2.4 million revenue in 2007 and grew it by at-least 20 folds in 6 years via business development and major sales efforts. In addition, under her management, US onshore business’s profit margin was improved by 300%. • Built and lead a high performance team that provides excellent client experience and deliver high value services to Beyondsoft largest and strategic clients. Lead strategic investment and initiatives that resulted high level recognition by clients and significant business growth. • Built and delivered on new technology capabilities such as Cloud and Big Data and gained sustainable competitive advantages. • Designed account management and business development strategies resulting in delighted customers and major business growth. • Developed and executed key go-to-market strategies for business expansion and built new delivery capabilities via 2nd Tier city Xian in China. Given the Top Partner award by Microsoft for building the new delivery center from ground up in record time. • Hired, trained and managed executive staff spanning over many global corporate offices, consisting Seattle, Bay Area, San Diego, Boise, Vancouver in U.S., and Shanghai, Beijing, Xian, Wuhan, and Shenzhen in China.

1999 - 2007

  • Program Manager

    2004 - 2007

    • Managed the architecture, development and operations of Usability study tools, spanning all major product groups at Microsoft. • Developed comprehensive reports encompassing key findings from data collected from usability studies. Incorporated customer feedback in the improvement of usability tools. • Provided advisory and support to key internal groups on product usability tools.

  • Software Design Engineer

    1999 - 2004

    • Designed and developed version 1 of MSN shopping and e-commerce experience. • Trained and mentored new engineers on the team.

1999 - 1999

  • Software Design Engineer

    1999 - 1999

    CompareNet was a start-up and a pioneer in comparison-shopping and e-commerce in its time. Being among the key developers on the team, responsibilities included, identifying customer’s requirements, writing key specifications, and developing necessary front-end and back-end of the system. Startup acquired by Microsoft and joined MSN Shopping as a result.