Wretch Chien
Principal at AME Cloud Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2014 - Current
AME Cloud Ventures is the technology innovation investment arm of Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!. AME Cloud Ventures invests across early and late stage companies in technology-heavy sectors, including AI, robotics, aerospace, genomics, new-gen medical devices, Big Data, compute, mobility, sensors and cloud ecosystems. AME Cloud Ventures supports entrepreneurs with a unique set of resources, from strong operational and business experience to networks of world-class mentors and international partners, particularly in Asia.
AME Cloud Ventures invests in seed to later-stage tech companies that build infrastructure and value chains around data.
Director, Product Management
2008 - 2012
Drove strategy and roadmap for Yahoo! User Generated Content. Won Yahoo! 2010 Superstar individual award, the highest recognition to outperforming employees.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Founder and CEO
2005 - 2007
Created wretch.cc and grew it to the largest blogging and photo sharing site generating 6B PVs/month in Taiwan before selling to Yahoo!