Derek Wang
Founder of Taalk
Charlotte, North Carolina
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Supercharge your Growth with our Conversation AI Agents. Taalk is a privacy-first consumer engagement platform powered by Conversation AI Agents. Our partners are using Taalk AI Agents to scale their outbound and inbound contact centers connecting with over 50K consumers per hour. With multilingual support, Taalk facilitates effective communication across language barriers and automates business workflows via our proprietary AI platform. We prioritize data privacy and security, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
Board Memeber
2023
Curion provides world-class quantitative and qualitative product insights.
Member Board Of Trustees
2022
Advisory Board Member
2022
Board Observer
2021
Alex is one of the best technologists I have known. I’m humbled to support his journey to build the best product analytics platform!
Kubit is an innovator in the product analytics industry that provides a revolutionary no-code solution to self-service analytics.
Raised $22,800,000.00 from Global Venture Capital, Shasta Ventures, Insight Partners and TSVC.
Graduate Faculty
2020
Partner
2019
Share what little Ive learnt of startup for Entrepreneurs around the world, and learn together with brilliant minds!
TSVC is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed-stage technology startups.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Humbled to be part of the amazing group of passionate educators. Look forward to inspire brilliant young minds for a better world!
Discovery Place is a non-profit organization that focuses on science, nature, and design to create transformative experiences in people.
Founder
2014 - 2024
Stratifyd is Global Startup headquartered in Charlotte, NC. Stratifyd is designed to equip business leaders worldwide with deep intellectual business insights in minutes instead of months. The Stratifyd Platform is an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) powered Data Analytics platform that analyzes and visualizes complex unstructured and structured data sets. The platform is built on our patented algorithms that leverage Machine Learning(ML) and Natural Language Processing(NLP) for any businesses. Fortune 500 companies worldwide are using Stratifyd to analyze data such as the voice of customer, product reviews, surveys, online chat transcriptions, system logs, emails, employee satisfaction, social media engagement, and news articles. For more information, please visit www.stratifyd.com. ► Founder ► Designed & Enginered the Foundation of Stratifyd Data Analytics Platform ► Envisioning and Spearheading Product Research and Development ► Responsible for Sales and Business Development ► Lead Company Growth at Stratifyd
Stratifyd is an AI powered analytics platform that enable enterprise companies to transform structured and unstructured human textual data.
Raised $61,200,000.00 from Tech Square Ventures, Georgian, Georgian, Mount Hopkins Investment, Georgian and Arsenal Growth Equity.
Associate Director of the Charlotte Visualization Center
2010 - 2019
The Charlotte Visualization Center is a highly interdisciplinary center that applies interactive visualization and visual analytics to a variety of large scale and complex problems in science, engineering, medicine, business, design, and the arts. The VisCenter also has one of the deepest programs anywhere in fundamental visualization, visual analytics, and human-computer interaction research. The VisCenter has research funding from the Army, NIH, NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, DOE, U.S. DOT, EPA, Bank of America, and other agencies and companies. The mission of the VisCenter is to develop and promote the science of visual analytics and to advance interactive visualization as an integrative discipline that is indispensable for attacking key real world applications. ► Responsible for managing and coordinating internal and external research. ► Strategic planning for the VisCenter and Big-Data Initiative at UNC Charlotte. ► Collaborating with Industrial and Academic Partners from across the country. ► Lead the effort for scalable visual analytics research in structured and unstructured data. ► Responsible for delivering interactive decision-support-and-predictive systems that produces actionable knowledge.