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Wayne Pan
Founder of Accord
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Wayne Pan is the Founder & CTO of Accord, a role where he demonstrates expertise in a wide range of technologies and entrepreneurial skills. His career highlights include founding Maybe, Inc. (Acquired By LinkedIn) and investing in companies like Apptimize at the seed stage.
Work Experience
Founder & CTO
2020 - Current
Accord is a customer-facing collaboration platform helping B2B startups build repeatable, collaborative Sales & Onboarding processes.
Raised $17,000,000.00 from Matrix, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator.
Advisor
2022
Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
Raised $8,000,000.00 from Global Founders Capital, Abstract, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, BoxGroup, William Hockey, Restive and Anre D. Williams.
Growth Advisor
2020
VP of Product and Engineering
2018 - 2020
Expo enables management and teams to enhance their performance by leveraging real-time data and insights for optimization.
Raised $28,000,000.00 from Calibrate Ventures and Alumni Ventures.
Fast Track Mentor
2019
First Round Angel Track is a community of operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors.
Investor
2012
I invest in founders first and products second. Investments include: Apptimize (acquired by Airship), Charge Communications, Everwise (acquired by Torch.io), Excipient, Jetlore (acquired by PayPal), Okava, Postmates (acquired by Uber), and lately various through Hyphen Capital
Advisor
2019 - 2022
Founder
2018 - 2018
Treasure connects you with local financial experts to help you make better decisions. We partner with local firms and instantly connect users with the right expert.
Director of Engineering
2015 - 2018
Head of engineering for Connected Enterprise initiatives. We help all employees be more productive and successful by leveraging the Economic Graph. Founded LinkedIn Elevate from idea to $xx revenue. Elevate helps companies empower their employees to share content and increase their social presence. LinkedIn Lookup, solving "who works on what" to help everybody work smarter.
Manager - Software Engineer
2013 - 2015
Talent Solutions - Recruiter - Eng manager responsible for $600m run rate business line. - Built iOS and Android Recruiter apps - Redesigned Recruiter profile to lift engagement by xx%
Find Jobs, Internships, and volunteer openings for teen students!
Founder
2012 - 2013
Launched from Churn Labs incubator. Raised from Sequoia Cap - Use your social networks to help make daily decisions - Match interests of first and second degree connections with questions you create - Product and Engineering - Built world class mobile team
Maybe is an online service that organizes user ideas to help them make better decisions.
Churner
2011 - 2012
Mobile Incubator - Digital loyalty platform using embedded iOS devices at merchants with the ability to share rewards socially. Pilot launch to 1,000 users and 10 merchants - Smart address book that combined contacts in mobile phone and social media updates - Incubated Maybe
Education
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