Max Luo
Principal at ACME Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2024 - Current
Investor
2020 - 2024
Investments: - Healthcare: Brightside, Lindus Health (angel), Tandem Health (angel), unannounced pharma tech co - Consumer: Partiful, Oops Finance, Ever/Body, SoLo Funds, Socket (acquired), Huddles/Clash (acquired) - Enterprise: Forma.ai, Modal (angel), Owner.com (angel) - Fintech: MyMo, Pier Finance
ACME Capital invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms.
Incubations
2020 - 2020
Incubated new ideas with Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga). Main project was a new UGC gaming platform that was in between Minecraft (low complexity) and Roblox (high complexity). Found + hired a top-grossing Roblox dev to build an MVP.
Workplay Ventures is an investment firm.
Strategy
2019 - 2020
Helped launch moonshots. Formerly known as Google X. Public projects include Waymo, Wing, Verily, Chronicle, and Loon. On secondment from McKinsey.
X, the moonshot factory invents and launches breakthrough technologies and radical solutions.
Consulting
2017 - 2020
Growth & innovation strategy in tech & healthcare. Example projects: + Consumer tech product strategy: business case + roadmap of a new healthcare product, for leading Silicon Valley consumer tech company + Digital health M&A: evaluated 50+ digital patient engagement startups for M&A, for a $15B drug distributor + Pharma-co M&A due diligence: $7B+ acquisition of a pharma-co with technology assets + Clinical research software growth: conducted portfolio review of 20+ products and prioritized advanced products (data science, genomics) for a $6B SaaS company
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Product Management
2017 - 2017
Genoa Telepsychiatry is a pharmacy and telepsychiatry company.
Summer Analyst
2016 - 2016
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Research Assistant
2014 - 2016
Researched how celebrity announcements of cancer diagnoses affect public utilization rates of mammograms and colonoscopies, with Prof. Katy Milkman and Prof. Kevin Volpp
Quality Improvement Data Analyst
2015 - 2015
Data analyst for quality improvement + hospital operations projects
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia offers hospital devoted exclusively to caring for children.
Raised $28,350,000.00 from Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, Hyundai Hope On Wheels, The Wyss Foundation, Pediatric Cancer Foundation, Gilbert Family Foundation, Hyundai Hope On Wheels, American Heart Association and Hyundai Hope On Wheels.