James Wang
General Partner at Creative Ventures
James Wang
General Partner at Creative Ventures
Oakland, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2016 - Current
Investing in technologies that directly attack the most pressing global macroeconomic trends, including demographic changes straining our healthcare system, secular labor shortages, and the effects of climate change.
Board Director
2019
Board Director
2021
Board Observer
2020
Board Director
2022
Board Director
2022
Co-Founder
2013
Lioness builds women's health products that empower women to learn more about their bodies and take control of their health. Learn more about us at http://lioness.io.
Product Marketing Manager
2014 - 2014
Makani is working to accelerate the shift to clean, renewable energy by developing energy kites, a new type of wind turbine that uses lightweight electronics, advanced materials, and smart software to generate more energy with less materials—all at lower cost. Led cross-functional team across engineering, operations, legal, PR, and policy at Google[x] on planning and executing launch announcement for Makani's first utility-scale energy kite pilot.
Recurser
2013 - 2013
YC-backed "Writers' retreat for Programmers." Developed computer vision algorithm for discovering embedded duplicate images, a desktop text editor, and various AIs for constrained games. Independent and group research mainly focused on topics in low-level systems, distributed systems, networking, and concurrency.
Senior Analyst and Investment Associate
2010 - 2013
Fundamental, systematic global macro hedge fund in Westport, CT. Directed a team of analysts, which advised and managed accounts for some of the largest institutional investors in the world.