Yingjie Wang
Investor at 500 Startups
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2020 - Current
500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. It is one of the most active venture capital firms in the world. Notable investments in the 500 portfolio include Canva, Solana, Credit Karma, Twilio, Grab, Intercom, Twilio, Mercury Bank, Bukalapak, The RealReal, Talkdesk, Lucidchart, Udemy, Ipsy, Algolia, Mejuri, Grove Collaborative, Ironclad, Axie Infinity, Animoca Brands, Superhuman, RapidAPI, and Carbon Health.
500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies.
Raised $2,271,999.00 from Abu Dhabi Financial Group.
Investor
2022
Led pre-seed investment
Investor
2022
Investor
2022
Led pre-seed investment
Detoure is a resale marketplace that sources highly curated clothing from influencers and tastemakers.
Investor
2022
Investor in Huma's Seed led by Race Capital
Huma Finance the on-chain credit platform connects high-performing receivables with global financing.
Raised $46,300,000.00 from Blockchain Founders Fund, Circle, 500 Global, HashKey Capital, Distributed Global, Robot Ventures, TIBAS Ventures, Hard Yaka and ParaFi Capital.
Investor
2021
Co-led pre-seed with Gradient Ventures. Company later raised seed round led by Spark Capital.
Roi is a mobile app that lets you trade crypto, stocks, NFTs, and more with your existing brokerages and wallets.
Investor
2021
Pre-seed investment; currently a Series A company.
Associate
2020
Member of All Raise's 2020-2022 Associate Cohort
All Raise is a nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous equitable future.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank, Sequoia Capital, Pivotal Ventures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Reid Hoffman Foundation, Silicon Valley Bank and Pivotal Ventures.
Product & Strategy
2017 - 2020
Jet.com was acquired by Walmart eCommerce for $3.3B-- one of the largest eCommerce acquisitions of its time. Manage P&L of multi-million dollar eCommerce vertical at the global #1 Fortune 500 company. Spearheaded and negotiated strategic partnerships with premier national brands such as Buzzfeed's Tasty, Chicago Cutlery, Calphalon, KitchenAid, Cuisinart, and Shun to launch and expand assortment on Walmart.com and Jet.com. Co-drove creation of the Premium Kitchen Shop (https://www.walmart.com/cp/premium-kitchen-shop/9409401) on Walmart.com. Led partnership discussions with over 17 multi-million dollar national brands to execute website launch which convinced 8 other brands to work with Walmart.com. Personally built backend assets and troubleshot issues. Led product development, strategy, and partnership discussions for multiple best-selling 5-star rated products featured exclusively on Walmart.com.
Jet operates an e-commerce platform that allows its member to shop online from various retailers.
Raised $570,000,000.00 from Alibaba Capital Partners, Google Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Fidelity, Palm Drive Capital, Forerunner and Bain Capital Ventures.
Lead Coordinator
2014 - 2017