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Why Technology is the Last Hope to Solve the US Housing Shortage
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Linus Liang
Partner at Kyber Knight Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Linus Liang is a Partner at Kyber Knight Capital in San Francisco, California, with a strong background in start-ups, product management, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. Highlights of his career include serving as a Partner at Signia Venture Partners and co-founding Embrace, along with investing in companies like Paxton AI and Kintsugi AI at the seed stage.
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Backed by luminaries such as the Chairman of Alphabet, CEO’s of Disney, Warner Bros, MGM, DreamWorks Animation, eBay, HP, Nexon, Match Group, and the founders of Airbnb, Yammer, Zynga, Oaktree, KKR, and NEA, Kyber Knight is a debut $120m venture capital fund focused on pre/seed technology investments.
Lecturer
2015
• OIT 536, GSB's class covering Big Data and Machine Learning • MS&E 476: Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital • MED 214 / CEE 214: Frontier Technology: Understanding and Preparing for Technology in the Next Economy
Board Member
2022
Signia led Seed, Foundation Capital and Tiger Global at Series A.
Electric Sheep is vertically integrated robotics company that's transforming the $1Trillion outdoor services industry
Raised $25,500,000.00 from Reinforced Ventures, Sahil Lavingia, Grep VC, Tiger Global Management, Ariel Cohen, Foundation Capital, Travis Deyle and Signia Venture Partners.
Board Observer
2020
Signia led at seed, Sequoia led Series A.
Landis helps renters transition to homeownership by telling them what they need to do to get a mortgage and buy a home.
Raised $222,000,000.00 from Google Ventures, Arrive, Sequoia Capital, Operator Partners, Second Century Ventures, Signia Venture Partners and Team Builder Ventures.
Board Member
2019
Big Data startup that provides software for operationalizing, trouble shooting and optimizing application performance on distributed computing environments.
Pepperdata provides real-time, automated cost optimization for Amazon EMR & EKS with no manual tuning and no application changes
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Signia Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, Maynard Webb, Wing Venture Capital, Mike Bergelson, Morado Ventures and Silicon Valley Data Capital.
Board Observer
2017
Constructor.io is a search and discovery platform that helps enterprise e-commerce companies improve their search, navigation, and recommendations experience and conversion rates.
Constructor is an AI-enabled product search and discovery platform that provides assistance to e-commerce brands.
Raised $86,100,000.00 from Sapphire Ventures and Silversmith Capital Partners.
Partner
2015 - 2022
Signia Venture Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to helping passionate entrepreneurs realize their vision and build impactful, high-growth ventures.
Signia Venture Partners is an early stage fund helping passionate entrepreneurs build impactful world-changing companies.
Board Observer
2015 - 2019
(Acquired by Microsoft in July 2019) BlueTalon is a leading provider of Unified Data Access Control for big data and new data initiatives.
BlueTalon provides data-centric security along with visibility and control at the data layer across Hadoop, Spark, SQL, and Big Data.
Raised $27,399,994.00 from Signia Venture Partners, Maverick Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Divergent Ventures, Arsenal Growth Equity, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Biomatics Capital Partners and DCVC.
Summer Associate, Deal and Research Team
2013 - 2013
Helped to create an investment thesis on wearable computing, met with entrepreneurs, and researched trends.
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Co-Founder
2008 - 2013
Embrace is a social enterprise that aims to help millions of vulnerable babies through a low cost infant incubator. Unlike traditional incubators that cost up to $20,000, the Embrace Infant Warmer costs less than 1% of this price. The device can work with or without electricity, has no moving parts, is portable and is safe and intuitive to use. Embrace has won numerous awards including The Economist Award for Social Innovation, Fast Company's Innovation Award, and the Tech Museum Tech Award.
Embrace is a non-profit organization that advances maternal and child health by delivering innovative solutions.
Education
Investments
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