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Wally Wang

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Series L Investor at Databricks Ventures · Managing Partner at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) · Series E Investor at Crusoe

Palo Alto, California

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

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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 — presentPalo Alto, CA
  2. NYU Stern School of BusinessMentor (Endless Frontier Labs)current2024 — present
  3. Higgsfield AISeries A Investorcurrent2025 — present
  4. d-MatrixSeries C Investorcurrent2025 — present
  5. DatabricksSeries L Investorcurrent2025 — present
  6. MastraSeed Investorcurrent2025 — present
  7. CrusoeSeries E Investorcurrent2025 — present
  8. CrestaSeries D Investorcurrent2024 — present
  9. TinyFishSeed Investorcurrent2023 — present
  10. Fiddler AISeries B Investorcurrent2023 — present
  11. Solve IntelligenceSeed Investorcurrent2023 — present
  12. Lio (formerly askLio)Seed Investorcurrent2023 — present
  13. Cast AISeries A Investorcurrent2022 — present
  14. WeaviateSeries A Investorcurrent2022 — present
  15. VAST DataSeries D Investorcurrent2021 — present
  16. Fosun 复星Head of Venture Investment2019 — 2022Menlo Park, CA
  17. DataVisorFounding Executive Team (raised over $150M)2016 — 2019Mountain View, CA
  18. Misfit WearablesFounding Executive Team (acq. by NASDAQ:FOSL for $260M)2015 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  19. Pebble TechFounding Data Scientist and Asia Expansion (YC W11, acq. by Google)2014 — 2015Palo Alto, California
  20. Lattice EnginesProduct Manager (acq. by NYSE:DNB)2012
  21. MicrosoftProgram Manager (Bing Search Ads)2011 — 2012
  22. Strategy&Consultant2010 — 2011

Skills & more

Languages Chinese · English

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Investments

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Colleagues at Databricks Ventures

Alex Laterza
Advisor at Exceptional Ventures
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder & CEO of Databricks
Andrew Ferguson
VP, Head of Databricks Ventures at Databricks Ventures
Andrew Krioukov
Founder and General Partner at Laude Ventures
Andy Kofoid
President, Databricks at Smith Point Capital
Andy Konwinski
Founder and General Partner at Laude Ventures
Ankit Mathur
Scout at Greylock Partners
Arsalan Tavakoli
Investor at Foundation Capital

Network2

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

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Wally Wang?
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.
Where does Wally Wang work?
Wally Wang is Series L Investor at Databricks Ventures.
What does Wally Wang invest in?
Wally Wang invests in AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
What check size does Wally Wang write?
Wally Wang typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
What companies has Wally Wang invested in?
Investments tracked here include Agency, Allus AI, Alokai, AppZen, Arch Data, Argilla, Array, Benchify, Birch Biosciences, Breeze Intelligence, Butlr, CAST AI, and 55 more.
Where did Wally Wang go to school?
Wally Wang studied at NYU Stern School of Business (MS, 2014 / Ph.D Candidate); Carnegie Mellon University (Visiting Scholar, Human Computer Interaction); Y Combinator (YC W11, Pebble Tech).

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