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Xiao Wang

Founding Partner at Avant B Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Xiao Wang is an accomplished entrepreneur turned venture capitalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in biochemistry and extensive experience in business development and entrepreneurship, he currently serves as the Founding Partner at Avant B Capital and has held key roles at prominent organizations like InnoSpring Seed Fund and Joy Capital. Notable highlights of Xiao Wang's career include founding InnoSpring, a successful seed fund, and serving as a Venture Partner at Joy Capital, showcasing his expertise in identifying and nurturing startups in the biotechnology and lifesciences sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2023 - Current

  • Venture Partner

    2022

Long-term partners to World-class HardTech entrepreneurs

  • Managing General Partner

    2015

    InnoSpring Seed Fund is affiliated with the InnoSpring US branch. We are backed by growth-stage venture funds including Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Northern Light VC, IDG Capital, Legend Capital, Softbank China. We focus on investing in seed stage technology startups and currently have a portfolio of 40+ companies (1 IPO, 6+ acquisitions).

  • Chief Fire Starter (General Manager)

    2012 - 2022

    InnoSpring Silicon Valley, a subsidiary of InnoSpring, was founded in 2012 as the first US-China startup incubator to help accelerate cross-border entrepreneurship and innovation in US, China and beyond. It has since established itself as one of the Bay Area’s top Chinese investors and the top 10 global accelerators (sources: Silicon Valley Business Journal, Entrepreneur). Today, it offers expanded services ranging from strategy, planning, the sourcing of investors, talent and partners, and mentoring to their portfolio companies. InnoSpring Silicon Valley has worked with 150 U.S. companies and invested in more than 50, including Drive.ai, Savioke, TrustGo, Kuaiya, Meadow, and Meta. InnoSpring Silicon Valley is located in Santa Clara, California, with an office in San Francisco. www.innospringus.com

InnoSpring Seed Fund is technology seed fund backed by growth-stage venture funds including KPCB, IDG Capital, Legend Capital, NLVC etc.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from Wanxiang America.

  • Mentor

    2016

AWS Healthcare is a global healthcare accelerator.

  • Cofounder

    2013 - 2022

    We are an industry innovation catalyzer & ecosystems builder with 6 locations in China, 2 in US and a total of $300M asset under management. InnoSpring founders have a track record of building vibrant ecosystems and bringing together companies to synthesize innovative ideas and advanced technologies into upgraded products and services. These successes have paved the way for InnoSpring to positively impact and elevate traditional industries to new levels, and enabled large enterprises to operate more profitably and efficiently by collaborating with startups with cutting-edge technologies. With smart systems and life sciences as its focus industries, InnoSpring’s extensive services range from investing, technology development, commercialization, space solutions, mentoring and ecosystems building. InnoSpring has four funds under management, and has incubated more than 300 startups, 7 of whom went public. Headquartered in Shanghai, the company operates multiple industrial parks, incubators, venture capital funds, and has offices in China, the United States and Germany (launching in fall 2017).

  • Venture Partner

    2015 - 2018

  • Investor & Vice President Of Business Development

    2014 - 2016

  • Guest Lecturer

    2014 - 2016

    Guest lecturer and speaker of startup ecosystem and early stage venture capital investment in the technology sector

  • Investor

    2013 - 2014

TSVC is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed-stage technology startups.

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