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Wally Wang

Investor

Managing Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)

Palo Alto, California

Writes $100K – $5M checks Β· typically $1M

About

Wally Wang is Founding Managing Partner of Scale Asia Ventures, a Silicon Valley early-stage fund focused on AI-driven enterprise software. He was named to Business Insider's Seed 100 list and previously led U.S. tech investments for Fosun International and a multibillion-dollar family office. Earlier in his career he worked on products at Microsoft Bing, Pebble, Misfit, Lattice Engines, and DataVisor. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, pursued Ph.D. studies at NYU Stern, and was a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science.

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Invests in

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Experience

  1. SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Founding Managing Partnercurrent2022 β€” presentPalo Alto, CA
  2. NYU Stern School of BusinessMentor (Endless Frontier Labs)current2024 β€” present
  3. Higgsfield AISeries A Investorcurrent2025 β€” present
  4. d-MatrixSeries C Investorcurrent2025 β€” present
  5. DatabricksSeries L Investorcurrent2025 β€” present
  6. MastraSeed Investorcurrent2025 β€” present
  7. CrusoeSeries E Investorcurrent2025 β€” present
  8. CrestaSeries D Investorcurrent2024 β€” present
  9. TinyFishSeed Investorcurrent2023 β€” present
  10. Fiddler AISeries B Investorcurrent2023 β€” present
  11. Solve IntelligenceSeed Investorcurrent2023 β€” present
  12. Lio (formerly askLio)Seed Investorcurrent2023 β€” present
  13. Cast AISeries A Investorcurrent2022 β€” present
  14. WeaviateSeries A Investorcurrent2022 β€” present
  15. VAST DataSeries D Investorcurrent2021 β€” present
  16. Fosun 倍星Head of Venture Investment2019 β€” 2022Menlo Park, CA
  17. DataVisorFounding Executive Team (raised over $150M)2016 β€” 2019Mountain View, CA
  18. Misfit WearablesFounding Executive Team (acq. by NASDAQ:FOSL for $260M)2015 β€” 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  19. Pebble TechFounding Data Scientist and Asia Expansion (YC W11, acq. by Google)2014 β€” 2015Palo Alto, California
  20. Lattice EnginesProduct Manager (acq. by NYSE:DNB)2012

Education

  1. NYU Stern School of BusinessMS, 2014 / Ph.D Candidate
  2. Carnegie Mellon UniversityVisiting Scholar, Human Computer Interaction
  3. Y CombinatorYC W11, Pebble Tech2014 β€” 2015
  4. Tsinghua UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Skills & more

Languages Chinese Β· English

From Wally'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 Carnegie Mellon University251

Javier SolteroSenior Venture Partner at Felicis VenturesAvi BharadwajInvestment Director at Intel CapitalTejAdvisor at Clear VenturesOren EtzioniVenture Partner at Madrona Venture GroupDiana HuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorVlad LoktevInvestor at Index Ventures

+ 245 more

Also attended Y Combinator1,463

Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire VenturesJon XuGeneral Partner at Y CombinatorTed ChaiAssociate at Scale Venture PartnersLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesYusuf SherwaniCo-Founder and CEO at Pelago; a Londoner living in New York City

+ 1,457 more

Also attended Tsinghua University120

Zhenyu TangInvestment Director at Intel CapitalVinnie LauriaFounding Partner at Golden Gate VenturesTed BreyerPartner at Breyer CapitalAlejandraChief of Staff, Investment Team at Hummingbird VenturesAlexander KremerPartner at Keen Venture PartnersDr. Kewei YangInvestor at G Vision Capital

+ 114 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Mastra3

Natalie VaisInvestor at Spark CapitalJosh SchlissermanPartner at Behind Genius VenturesLaura YaoPartner at EQT Ventures

Also worked at Fiddler AI10

RaghuInvestor at Eudemian VenturesRavish AilinaniPartner at Dallas Venture CapitalMark KimInvestor at Samsung NextAnshul AgarwalPartner at LG Technology VenturesRaviraj JainPartner at Lightspeed Venture PartnersArnaud de ScorbiacPartner at Isai

+ 4 more

Also worked at Weaviate6

Dharmesh ThakkerGeneral Partner at Battery VenturesIgor TaberGeneral Partner at Cortical VenturesMike ObolonskyiPrincipal at Cortical VenturesAlex SharataPartner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Ash FontanaManaging Director at Zetta Venture PartnersJames AlcornPartner at Zetta Venture Partners

Also worked at VAST Data16

Yoram SnirPartner at 83NorthLak AnanthGlobal Managing Partner at Next47Moshe ZilbersteinGeneral Partner at Next47Assaf JacobiVenture Partner at Next47Scott DarlingPresident at Dell Technologies CapitalMor GrabliSenior Associate at Claltech

+ 10 more

Colleagues at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)

Anindya Ghose
Academic Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
Ben Eum
Korea Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
Chuck Huang
Operating Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
Dave Nielsen
Community Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
Jeff Hopkins
Talent Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
Kay Mok
Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
Michael Cho
Korea Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
Noriaki Hyuga
Japan Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)

Network2

Blaine Vess
Investor at Immeasurable
Cameron Teitelman
Founder, CEO & Head of Admissions at StartX

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