Orbit

Venture Partner at SOSV.

Venture Partner at SOSV.

Ching-Ping Lin is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Orbit. She previously held roles at Dragon Aviation Leasing (a joint venture between China Aviation Supplies and Aercap), Amazon.com, and McKesson, and worked at startups including Planetall.com, HPR Inc., and Freemark Communications. Trained as a health informaticist and qualitative researcher, she has built digital health systems for under-resourced populations in Uganda, China, and the United States. She holds a BA in computer science and classics from Bowdoin College, a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in global health at Peking University.

Jenne Wong is Partner and Director of Business Development at Orbit Ventures. Her experience spans the mobile and software industry, including strategy, project management, portfolio management, corporate engagements, and business scaling. She works with early-stage startups on cross-border expansion and international business development across regions.

Minjia Wu is a Partner at Orbit Ventures, a venture fund investing in emerging markets. She was previously a Partner at SOSV, where she managed a portfolio of more than 30 companies and deployed US$16.5M, with portfolio companies raising over US$102M in follow-on funding. Her investing covers the US, Southeast Asia, and India, with a focus on media and logistics.

TR Harrington is a Partner at Orbit Ventures with prior venture capital experience at SOSV and Antler, working across markets including Silicon Valley, China, Asia, MENA, and Los Angeles. Over more than 25 years, Harrington has worked in sales, marketing, technology, and product, supporting over 250 startups and brands such as Sephora, Gucci, Apple, Cisco, and Booking.com on product and market entry, growth marketing, and performance marketing. Harrington co-founded a search marketing business in China that was a Baidu beta technology API partner.

Aditya Kathpalia is Director, India & MENA at Orbit Startups, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies across emerging and frontier markets. He previously served as an Innovation Consultant for the Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority's Anjal Z program and as Head of Ecosystem & Growth initiatives at Chiratae Ventures. He holds a degree in computer science engineering and has worked with companies including Shell, Reliance Jio, Google, and Amazon AWS on startup-related initiatives across sectors such as energy, fintech, enterprise SaaS, and health tech.

Ander Gonzalez is Chief of Staff at Orbit Ventures, joining in January 2025 to support the firm's international expansion and work with the General Partner on partnerships and operations across emerging markets. He has worked in the entrepreneurship ecosystem since 2018 through the Mondragon Team Academy network and the LEINN degree, and previously served as International Trade Manager at the Economic and Commercial Office of Spain in Shanghai and as a consultant with the European Union Trust Fund for Colombia. He has also pursued entrepreneurial ventures in Spain and South Korea.

Daniel Osorio Peña is the Founding GTM Lead at Fronte, an early-stage fintech platform focused on helping households coordinate cross-border financial obligations. His background spans investment banking, private equity, startup growth, and venture capital in Latin America, including leading a BNPL launch at a Y Combinator-backed startup that reached $128K in monthly GMV. He was the first on-the-ground hire for a $60M emerging-markets venture capital fund, where he supported more than 10 portfolio companies on fundraising and growth.

Daphne Liu is HR & Operations Manager at Orbit Ventures. She was raised in South Africa, moved to China, studied in the USA, and now lives in Taiwan. Before Orbit, she was an executive assistant to the CEO of a locally listed financial group, and prior to that spent over six years as a real estate consultant at a Fortune 500 company.

Emil Jersling is a Senior Growth Manager at Orbit Ventures, where he helps CEOs accelerate growth through data-driven decision-making. Trained as an engineer and holding an MBA, he draws on two decades of venture-building experience across Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Since 2005 he has founded eight companies across five countries and exited two, including launching Groupon Belgium in 2011, a vibration-energy-harvesting deep-tech venture in China in 2018, and an organic flow battery company in 2025.

Hebatalla Gad is an Investment Analyst at Orbit Ventures. She holds a Master's degree in Technology Management from NYU, and her prior professional background includes customer success and engineering management, as well as project controls, automation, system administration, and operations. In her current role she works with entrepreneurs to conduct assessments and valuations.

Jean-David (JD) Zhu is an Investment Analyst at Orbit Ventures. He previously worked as an investment manager at New Access Capital, an onshore RMB VC fund, where he handled deal sourcing, investing, and fundraising with a focus on software, hardware, web3, and new consumer sectors. Earlier in his career he worked in asset management consulting and investment banking, and he holds an MSc from the University of London.

Jojo Pan is a Senior Investment Analyst at Orbit with a background in finance across the private and public sectors. She graduated from Boston University with a degree in business administration and a concentration in finance, and during her senior year worked in the finance department of a government agency focused on debt investment for housing and commercial developments. Before joining Orbit, she worked in the consumer industry conducting early-stage merchandise analysis, scouting brands for investment, and advising startups on market-expansion strategies.

Kelly Pang is a Senior Program Manager at Orbit Startups, a venture capital firm within SOSV that supports early-stage companies across emerging and frontier markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. She previously worked in full stack development, healthcare, digital marketing, and the legal industry.

Nick Ponomarev is a Senior Investment Analyst at Orbit Startups managing a portfolio exceeding $300 million across 22 companies in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa. He has supported fundraising alongside major institutional investors including Alibaba and Morgan Stanley, and previously led investment activities for PIF Sanabil's 0-1 program. His background encompasses physics and engineering education in Russia and Shanghai, along with mentoring roles at Huawei, Duke, and NYU, and participation in the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers initiative.

Salman Saleem is a Growth Manager at Orbit Ventures, where he supports a portfolio of over 40 startups across emerging and frontier markets. He has more than eight years of experience in startup growth, having previously worked within companies in Pakistan, Kenya, MENA, and other emerging markets across sectors including e-commerce, food delivery, cloud kitchens, ride-hailing, mass transit, ed-tech, and B2B marketplaces. His work has spanned growth, product, data analytics, marketing, and business operations functions.

Sam Junkermann is an Investment Specialist at Orbit Ventures. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from IE University in Madrid, with a concentration in economic and financial analysis for business, and works across teams to support operational and strategic initiatives.

Wei Pan is a Corporate Innovation Analyst at Orbit Startups with three years of professional experience across multiple industries. Pan's work focuses on qualitative research and analysis, developed in a range of work cultures.