Michelangelo Ho
Limited Partner at FOG Ventures
Michelangelo Ho
Limited Partner at FOG Ventures
Greater Seattle Area
Overview
Work Experience
Limited Partner
2024 - Current
FOG Ventures was created to invest and support innovative founders that are helping create toolbox 2.0 for the modern day operator. We’re backed by the world's top operating executives at tech’s most prominent startups. We do not just invest in what we believe in — as active operators, we’re investing in products we actually love and use. Send amazing teams/products our way: www.fog.ventures / deals@fog.ventures
Member
2024
The Operators Guild is an independent, invitation-only group, home to the world’s top operations (high growth and technology) leaders. Scaling a company is hard. We are working together to share best practices, help one another solve similar problems, and invest in the operator community. We meet and connect regularly to support each other as we create the next generation of high-growth companies and company leaders.
Advisor & Interim Executive
2014
Advisor and interim executive support to tech based businesses focusing on identifying and executing strategic opportunities. Examples: - Strategy: Spearheaded product strategy and execution during critical transformation phase, focusing on divestiture strategies and innovative paths to revenue growth. - Revenue growth: Created strategy, business plan, and roadmap of a guaranteed payments solution for retailers. Revitalized company with new hires and a product/customer mindset while eliminating underperformers. - Product & Business Dev: Launched 5 mobile banking products reducing avg time to market & revenue generation from 4 months to 3 weeks. Re-negotiated distribution partnerships improving margins by 40%.
Global Head of Product
2020 - 2023
Head of Product leading worldwide product strategy, team, roadmap, and execution within Amazon's Marketplace. Led product teams defining 0-1 efforts and extending existing products generating billions in revenue working along 100s of engineers. Heavy use of automation and AI/ML to exponentially unlock innovations and drive large P&L lift.
Venture Capitalist - Managing Director
2019 - 2020
Early stage venture capital seed fund.
COO, Co-Founder & Board Member
2015 - 2020
Sudu is a VC backed freight full truck matching marketplace centered around voice and conversational AI based on Amazon Connect & Lex tech stack. The marketplace connects large enterprises that ship freight with a network of 10K active SMB fleets. Some of the world's biggest enterprises like Walmart, CHEP, ABinBev, UPS, Georgia Pacific, and P&G use Sudu to ship freight. Truckers get upfront pricing and fast payment options at their convenience. As General Manager, I built and managed all teams/functions (except sales) with particular emphasis on product. ► Launched incoming and outgoing voice and web based conversational AI/natural language processing voicebots and chatbots for ~10K small truck fleets and drivers utilizing Amazon Connect & Lex. ► Designed and launched mobile and web marketplace supporting all three types of fleet users: drivers, dispatchers, and owner operators. ► Launched AI/ML based shipper marketplace and APIs supporting high volume enterprise shippers like Walmart, ABinBev, CHEP, UPS, etc.
FinTech Accelerator Head & Georgia Tech Research Faculty
2015 - 2017
Built and ran the FinTech Accelerator at Georgia Tech/ATDC for Georgia based entrepreneurs. ATDC is ranked by Forbes as a "Top 12 Business Incubators Changing the World" supporting ~10,000 entrepreneurs per year. Screened 1000s of entrepreneurs while helping startups raise $150M.
Member Board of Directors
2015 - 2017
TAG Fintech builds recognition of Georgia as the hub of choice for the world’s leading financial technology providers. The society’s goals include accelerating the accumulation of capital by its members, and to foster a business environment conducive to the ongoing success of companies, employees, service providers, educational institutions, entrepreneurs, and investors. As a result, this helps them to create, build, and maintain innovative financial services that meet their customers’ growing needs.
Director Product Management - Mobile Payments
2008 - 2011
Mobile payments strategy and new product development as part of new Mobile Commerce business including TSM for Google Wallet. US patent #8,650,071 for “Mobile Coupon Analysis System and Methods”.
Chief Product Officer
2006 - 2008
AirSage provides real time road congestion data using cellular data from the top US wireless carriers representing 120M mobile phones and 12B location events/day. ► Productized IP to provide real time traffic congestion covering 98% of the US vehicular road network, acquiring customers in the transportation & media industries such as Google Maps, Westwood One, and GA-DOT. ► Led efforts to collect and analyze 300k miles of ground truth data across the top 100 MSAs helping improve congestion detection by 400%. ► Instituted product development and portfolio management processes increasing revenue 67%. ► Led teams across product, marketing, data science, and operations from scaling it from 10 to 50.