James Hong

Angel Investor (pre-seed)

2004

Particular interest in Machine Learning or Biotech related companies. 🔀acquired by 🪦dead 🦄unicorn Health / Biotech -------------------- Athelas/Commure🦄 Clear MD🪦 Decade ECM Therapeutics Emerald Cloud Laboratory Emerald Therapeutics Enable Medicine🔀Athelas Freenome🦄 Hexagon Bio Klyne Latch Lydia.ai Orca Biosystems🦄 StemCentrx🔀Abbvie🦄 Tegmine Machine Learning based stuff ------------------------ Animato AI Arcee Basebuild BlackBox AI Cetient CTRL-Labs🔀FB Deep Infra Deep Sentinel FormLogic Kneron Lambda Labs🦄 Nimble.AI🦄 Rito Foods Runway ML🦄 Zagmo Crypto-related ------------------------ Alchemy🦄 Bitgo🦄 Chia Civic Dinari Metatheory Just Tech ---------------- 9GAG Adku🔀Groupon Alive Not Dead / Alive.cn🔀Mig33 AngelList🦄 Anomaly AnyQuestion App Barbecue🔀Pear Therapeutics Atrium HQ Baobab Beautylish BitTorrent🔀 Breezeworks🪦 Brondell Cardpool🔀Blackhawk Network Connectifier🔀LinkedIn Crunchyroll🔀AT&T🦄 Doodle Deals🔀Plum District EMQ Fixed🪦 Frappr🔀Slide Gaston Labs🔀Facebook GGWP Glow Grouper/Crackle 🔀Sony Green Mango🪦 Hatch Hook Mobile🔀 Hooked IMO Learnboost🔀Automattic Leo Group Lime Listia Locket Labs Lookmark🪦 Markov🪦 Medium Mission Motors🪦 Mochi Media🔀Shanda NextLesson🪦 Nuzzel🪦 Odeo (became Twitter)🦄 Ostrovok.ru / Emerging Travel Perceptual Networks🪦 Playbook🪦 Plays.tv🪦 ProfitFuel🔀Yodle Quid Raptr🔀 Revnetics🪦 Rune🪦 Samba.tv Safer Kid🪦 Self Aware Games🔀BigFish Games SimplyHired🔀Recruit Holdings Slide🔀Google Social Concepts SpaceX (SPV) Spot-On🪦 StoryJumper TopHatter🪦 Travelbank🔀US Bank Upsight/Kontagent Xatori🔀Recargo Xmfish🔀 Younoodle Workflowy Zivity

Professional Chauffeur

2009

Neverending and thankless job servicing the needs of overly demanding clientele.

Trustee

2013 - 2019

Served on UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees

Creator

2014 - 2015

Learned Objective-C and built Cakey, a YouTube app for kids.. mainly because I needed something like it to give my own kids. Give it a try! iPad and iphone: http://Cakey.co/ios

Cofounder

2000 - 2008

With no funding, my friend and I launched and scaled a website that in 6 weeks became the 20th most trafficked website in the world. Honed my ability to rate people over a period of 8 years. We were also the first online service to use the now dominant double opt-in dating model (where both people have to approve of each other before being able to communicate).

Co-founder

2000 - 2000

Website I started with my brother Tony, built as a hobby to promote the adoption of webservices (and particularly the SOAP protocol) in the early days of Web 2.0. This led to the creation of HOTorNOT, which was conceived during a brainstorm about killer app consumer web services.

Reader

1994 - 1998

Served as the grader of homework and exams for EE122 (Introduction to Communication Networks) for a couple semesters ('94 and '98)

Product Manager

1995 - 1997

Worked on Spectrum Analyzers and Mobile Network Drive Testing equipment

Math and Chemistry Tutor

1987 - 1991

Food Service Worker

1987 - 1987

cooked food, ran registers, cleaned bathrooms, washed hands.