Chon Tang
Partner at SkyDeck Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner - Berkeley SkyDeck Fund
2017 - Current
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.
SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for affiliated entrepreneurs.
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.
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.
Junzi Capital Engineering is an investment and technology development firm.
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.
Ternion Corporation is a computer software company that offers simulation software development services.
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.
Research developer
1997 - 1997
Worked on compiler optimizations as part of IA64 research group.
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Software developer
1996 - 1996
Worked on a development tool for the initial Mac version of Microsoft Office.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.