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Jun Wakabayashi

Investor

Analyst at AppWorks Ventures

Taiwan

Writes $200K – $10M checks · typically $5.1M

About

Jun Wakabayashi is an Analyst at AppWorks, working with the AppWorks Accelerator and covering the Greater Southeast Asia region. Before joining the firm, he worked for Focus Reports as a business journalist conducting sector-based market research on the healthcare and energy sectors, interviewing government leaders and industry executives across multiple countries. He holds a Bachelor's in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business.

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Experience

  1. MeckaStrategic Partnershipscurrent2026 — presentAsia
  2. AppWorksVenture Advisorcurrent2025 — presentUS & Asia
  3. AppWorksPrincipal2023 — 2025TW & SEA
  4. AppWorksAssociate2022 — 2023TW & SEA
  5. AppWorksAnalyst2017 — 2022TW & SEA
  6. Focus ReportsInternational Projects Director2015 — 2017Singapore / Egypt / Australia / Hungary / South Africa / Turkey / Netherlands
  7. PwCRisk Assurance Associate2013 — 2015New York City Metropolitan Area
  8. BettermentIntern2011New York City Metropolitan Area

Education

  1. NYU Stern School of BusinessBachelors, Finance2011 — 2013
  2. National Taiwan Normal UniversityMandarin2017
  3. Rutgers UniversityFinance2009 — 2011

Skills & more

Public Speaking6Microsoft Excel16Microsoft Office14PowerPoint12HTML3Outlook2Microsoft Word6Photoshop4Research8Customer Service5Sales5Social Media2

Languages Chinese · Spanish

From Jun's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended NYU Stern School of Business378

Luna SchmidInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Kaz TeradaVenture Advisor at Monta Vista CapitalNeil FongManaging Director Asia at Burda Principal InvestmentsAlex TosoliniAdvisor at CincyTechMax WechterSenior Director of AI at Lerer HippeauTom MonahanFormer Chairman & CEO, CEB at MissionOG

+ 372 more

Also attended National Taiwan Normal University15

Joseph MocanuCo-Founder and Managing Partner at Verge HealthTech FundGuillaume DeferMarketing Director at HeadlineJanelle DyAnalyst, ESG at Wavemaker PartnersTamryn BarkerSector Director, Mining & Nature at Founders FactoryRob EldridgeManaging Partner at Tapas CapitalEric ShuPrincipal at Access Venture Partners

+ 9 more

Also attended Rutgers University91

Jigar RaythathaInvestor at Third Rock VenturesRobin LiInvestor at GGV CapitalDominique LittleGovernment Affairs Lead at ParadigmGanesh PersadVice President & Chief Information Officer at Flare Capital PartnersMark FieldsInvestor at Alsop Louie PartnersBasil AlomaryPrincipal, Head of Research & Growth Strategy at Stripes

+ 85 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Mecka1

Yoran BeisherInvestor at Inovia Capital

Also worked at AppWorks16

Jamie LinChairman and Partner at AppWorks VenturesJoseph ChanPartner at AppWorks VenturesNice ChengPartner at AppWorks VenturesJessica LiuPartner at AppWorks VenturesChing TsengPrincipal at AppWorks VenturesAlyssa ChenPrincipal at AppWorks Ventures

+ 10 more

Also worked at PwC953

David PhuController at Felicis VenturesTianen LiangTax Controller at Felicis VenturesJanet WolpertInvestor at Index VenturesAryo TehranianManaging Director at Mayfair Equity PartnersAne Tolnes HaugdalInvestor at InvestinorEgilInvestor at Investinor

+ 947 more

Also worked at Betterment10

Chris BischoffInvestment Team at General CatalystAJ NyboMarketing Coordinator at March Capital PartnersJosh JagotaPrincipal at Alpaca VCDustin LucienFormer COO at Betterment at PICUS CAPITALAllen MillerPartner at Oak HC/FTMike MaManaging Partner at Sidecut Ventures

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Colleagues at AppWorks Ventures

Alyssa Chen
Principal at AppWorks Ventures
Andy Tsai
Partner at AppWorks Ventures
Anne Chen
Investor Relations Director at AppWorks Ventures
Bill Hsu
Analyst at AppWorks Ventures
Chi Yung-Yu (Norman)
Analyst at AppWorks Ventures
Ching Tseng
Principal at AppWorks Ventures
David Wu
Investor at AppWorks Ventures
Davidd Liu
Fellow at AppWorks Ventures