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Binh Tran
General Partner at 500 Startups Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Binh Tran is the General Partner at AVV (Ascend Vietnam Ventures) with a background in entrepreneurship and venture capital. He co-founded AVV and has invested in a range of successful companies such as BlokID, Finblox, and Turing.com.
With experience as a General Partner at 500 Startups Vietnam and a co-founder at Klout, Binh has made significant contributions in the startup ecosystem, focusing on sectors like Social Commerce, AgTech, and FinTech, while also championing investments in female and diverse founders.
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2021 - Current
General Partner
2015
Co-founder
2008 - 2014
Klout is an application that measures and ranks its users according to online social influence by using social media analytics.
Raised $40,000,000.00 from ff Venture Capital, DNX Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Idealab, Tuesday Capital, Zelkova Ventures, ff Venture Capital, IVP, Paige Craig and Venrock.
Co-founder
2004 - 2008
Partner, Director of Technology
2002 - 2007
Company was acquired in Feb 2007.
Senior Game Programmer
1998 - 2001
Senior programmer of Playstation 1, Nintendo 64, and Dreamcast console titles.
Software Engineer
1995 - 1998
Education
BS
1991 - 1995