Roger Kuo

Strategic Advisor

2024

Founding Partner

2017

Advised and led initiatives on product-market fit, go-to-market strategy, investor relations, fundraising, and partnerships for early-stage technology companies, contributing to their growth and success. Also played a key role in enhancing branding, market strategy, and organizational efficiency, working closely with founders and executive teams to drive organizational growth.

Head of Investor Relations and Partnerships

2022 - 2023

Social PayMe is an all-in-one platform for social media aggregation/management and fintech/compliance solution for influencers, brands, and fans. Owned the fundraising, investor relations, and partnerships functions. Also collaborated with the COO on team operations, CEO to refine and execute the company's vision and strategy, and spearheaded high-impact special projects and strategic initiatives.

Chief of Staff

2022 - 2023

Venture Partner

2020 - 2022

GoingVC is a multifaceted organization built around the idea of making venture capital education, investing, networks, and talent more accessible to those with the desire to succeed. Supported programming and spearheaded a team of 5 to improve member engagement and hiring outcomes in the program, promote the company and members in the VC ecosystem, and facilitate deal making among VCs. GoingVC Partners (GVCP) funds early-stage startups and invests in companies backed by leading venture capital firms including Insight Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Founders Fund, and many more. Sourced and evaluated over 800 pre-seed to series A startups for potential investment and presented key merits and risks to the partners.

Head of Community and Events

2020 - 2022

Director of Product Marketing

2016 - 2017

CardPlus is a new platform approach to addressing the key pain points in payments, radically improving consumer convenience and confidence while enhancing the consumer-merchant relationship: for online, IoT, and in-store use. Our mission is to transform the familiar and preferred 60-year-old payment method, into an even more securely connected interactive payment platform.

Director of Business Development

2015 - 2016

Shanghai Valley allows Chinese investors unprecedented access to investment opportunities; and helps exceptional companies raise strategic capital and resources.