Cjin Cheng
Founder of Tonic Fund
Cjin Cheng
Founder of Tonic Fund
Taiwan
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2021 - Current
Tonic Fund is built for operators by operators. We have been startup operators for more than a decade and have been in many challenging situations as operators. We want to help other operators by providing what we've learned along the journey and avoiding the traps we got caught before. We'd like to know more SaaS and crypto projects.
Venture Partner
2018 - 2022
New business development, sourcing pre-seed deals, portfolio support, and fundraising in Taiwan and East Asia.
Venture Partner/EIR (Entrepreneur-in-Residence)
2014 - 2017
Portfolio Management - Assisting 500 portfolio companies with marketing, growth, distribution, fundraising, and other tasks as needed. New Business Development - Sourcing Taiwan-based startups.
Co-Founder
2012 - 2014
Cubie Messenger is a multimedia messenger with pioneering features like drawings, stickers and sketches on pics, dissappearing messages, stories, etc. Launched in March 2012, known as Whatsapp + Draw Something. Cubie got over 10 million downloads in a year and ranked #1 in more than 10 countries in SE Asia and Middle East on the iPhone free app chart. Cubie joins Silicon Valley 500 Startups Accelerator in Fall 2012.
Co-Founder
2007 - 2014
We are a web/social game studio with 15 employees in Taiwan. With the systematic data-driven game design, we've developed several popular real-time synchronized online games. Now we have over 5 million users from all over the world, mostly from Taiwan, HK and SE Asia. And a new mobile app in the stealth mode. * In 2008, team won the 1st prize at Yahoo Open Hack Day in Taiwan and also attended TechCrunch 50 Demopit. Gamelet: http://gamelet.com (in Chinese) http://facebook.com/gamelet (in English)
Co-Founder
2004 - 2007
Best-selling mobile stock trading app for Java phones in Taiwan. Acquired by SYSTEX, a top SI company in Taiwan.
Project Manager
2003 - 2004
Project Management - Desktop Barebone System