JH

James Hong

Professional Chauffeur at Hong Family

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Angel Investor (pre-seed)

    2004 - Current

    Particular interest in Machine Learning or Biotech related companies. Portfolio companies include: Health / Biotech -------- Athelas(merged w/ Commure) Clear MD(closed) Decade ECM Therapeutics Emerald Cloud Laboratory Emerald Therapeutics Enable Medicine (acquired) Freenome Hexagon Bio Klyne Latch Lydia.ai Orca Biosystems StemCentrx (acquired by Abbvie) Tegmine Machine Learning based stuff ------------------------ Animato AI Arcee Basebuild BlackBox AI Cetient CTRL-Labs (acquired by FB) Deep Infra Deep Sentinel FormLogic Kneron Lambda Labs Nimble.AI Rito Foods Runway ML Zagmo Crypto-related ------------------------ Alchemy Bitgo Chia Civic Dinari Metatheory Just Tech ---------------- 9GAG Adku (acquired by Groupon) Alive Not Dead / Alive.cn (acquired - Mig33) AngelList Anomaly AnyQuestion App Barbecue (acquired - Pear Therapeutics) Atrium HQ Baobab Beautylish BitTorrent (acquired) Breezeworks (shutdown) Brondell Cardpool (acquired by Blackhawk Network) Connectifier (acquired by LinkedIn) Crunchyroll (acquired - AT&T) Doodle Deals (acquired - Plum District) EMQ Fixed (shut down) Frappr (acquired by Slide) Gaston Labs (acquired by Facebook) GGWP Glow Grouper / Crackle (acquired by Sony) Green Mango (shut down) Hatch Hook Mobile (acquired) Hooked IMO Learnboost (acquired - Automattic) Leo Group Lime Listia Locket Labs Lookmark (shut down) Markov (shut down) Medium Mission Motors (shut down) Mochi Media (acquired - Shanda) NextLesson Nuzzel (shut down) Odeo (became Twitter) Ostrovok.ru / Emerging Travel Perceptual Networks (shut down) Playbook Plays.tv (shut down) ProfitFuel (Acquired - Yodle) Quid Raptr (acquired) Revnetics (shut down) Rune (shut down) Samba.tv Safer Kid Self Aware Games (acquired - BigFish Games) Simply Hired (acquired - Recruit Holdings) Slide (acquired by Google) Social Concepts SpaceX (SPV) Spot-On StoryJumper TopHatter Travelbank (acquired by US Bank) Upsight (Kontagent) Xatori (Acquired by Recargo) Xmfish.com (Acquired) Younoodle Workflowy

  • Professional Chauffeur

    2009

    Neverending and thankless job servicing the needs of overly demanding clientele.

  • Trustee

    2013 - 2019

    Served on UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees

  • Creator

    2014 - 2015

    Learned Objective-C and built Cakey, a YouTube app for kids.. mainly because I needed something like it to give my own kids. Give it a try! iPad and iphone: http://Cakey.co/ios

  • Cofounder

    2000 - 2008

    With no funding, my friend and I launched and scaled a website that in 6 weeks became the 20th most trafficked website in the world. Honed my ability to rate people over a period of 8 years. We were also the first online service to use the now dominant double opt-in dating model (where both people have to approve of each other before being able to communicate).

  • Co-founder

    2000 - 2000

    Website I started with my brother Tony, built as a hobby to promote the adoption of webservices (and particularly the SOAP protocol) in the early days of Web 2.0. This led to the creation of HOTorNOT, which was conceived during a brainstorm about killer app consumer web services.

  • Reader

    1994 - 1998

    Served as the grader of homework and exams for EE122 (Introduction to Communication Networks) for a couple semesters ('94 and '98)

  • Product Manager

    1995 - 1997

    Worked on Spectrum Analyzers and Mobile Network Drive Testing equipment

  • Math and Chemistry Tutor

    1987 - 1991

  • Food Service Worker

    1987 - 1987

    cooked food, ran registers, cleaned bathrooms, washed hands.

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