JW

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 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.

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