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Chia Jeng Yang

Founder of WhyHow.AI

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Chia Jeng Yang is a successful entrepreneur and investor, known for co-founding WhyHow.AI and making significant financial gains for many individuals while working at Saison Capital, Bessemer Ventures, and Pantera Capital. With a background in firefighting as a Platoon Commander with the Singapore Civil Defence Force, Chia has also played key roles in building successful ventures like Daraz, acquired by Alibaba, and Mobforest as a Co-Founder. Currently, Chia serves as Head of Agentic & RAG-Native Knowledge Graph Studio in San Francisco, showcasing expertise in project management, entrepreneurship, and leadership, with a strong focus on investing in sectors like E-commerce, Web3/Crypto, and FinTech in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

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WhyHow.AI

  • Co-Founder

    2024 - Current

    Determinism, Accuracy, Memory & Personalization - Knowledge Graphs deliver semantic structure to your RAG pipelines. WhyHow.AI is a the next generation data pipelines for Knowledge Graph creation within your RAG pipelines. We pioneer Small Knowledge Graphs for the purposes of ECL (Extract - Contextualize - Load).

Saison Capital / Bessemer Ventures (Intern) / Pantera Capital

  • Investing - Made a lot of people a lot of money

    2019 - 2023

    Generalist - with spikes in SaaS, e-comm, fintech, blockchain

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Rocket Internet SE

  • Building: Daraz - Acquired by Alibaba

    2017 - 2018

    GVD at Daraz - leading e-commerce platform in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal, serving over 500 million customers. Backed by Rocket Internet & CDC Group.

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Singapore Civil Defence Force

  • Fought Fires (literally) - Platoon Commander

    2012 - 2014

    Sergeant -> Lieutenant -> SCDF NSF of the Year

Mobforest

  • Building: Co-Founder

    2013 - 2013

    MobForest was an online education start-up that helped link social enterprises with schools. Worked with amazing people to learn how not to build companies.

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