MEET UNMET NEEDS
FOUNDER TESTIMONIALS
"Terrence's honest, hard-headed advice and generous amounts of help have been invaluable"
-- Larry Sanger, Founder CEO, Infobitt and Co-founder, Wikipedia
"Terrence is an excellent advisor and investor"
-- Andrew Lee, Co-founder, Handshake, PurseIO
We want to be a great investor for you. That requires empathy, trust, candor and transparency.
Case Studies
Terrence Yang is an angel investor and adviser who gets help from friends & invests with friends. He no longer leads deals.
Handshake (HNS) is decentralized certificate authority and naming co-founded by the Lightning co-creator. Initial backer & hodler. Helped originate a VC investor and angel investor. Same-round investors include Sequoia.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/vcs-are-investing-big-new-cryptocurrency-introducing-handshake
San Francisco
Team
We are blessed to have a great volunteer team of high-integrity, smart, analytical folks with some great domain expertise.
Dave Friedman
Principal
Tokenized Assets Lead, Fintech
New York
Eric Yuan
Venture Partner
Blokchain, Eldertech, Health Care
Orange County
Source, analyze, discuss fintech and other startups.
SVP, Business Development, Iconiz
Data Analyst - Hadoop, R, and SQL
Financial Regulatory Analytics
Ex-Hedge fund manager and Equity Prop Trader
FX and Crytpocurrency Trader
PIMCO Alumni
Co-owner, Bitcorati
Gracye Cheng
Principal
Enterprise, Lawtech
Santa Monica
VP, Business Development and General Counsel, GoodRx
Worked with a YC startup on business strategy and marketing projects
Ex-corporate lawyer
Harvard College, Harvard Law School
Jane Shui
Senior Associate
Real Estate Finance
Vancouver
Value investor, with a focus on the real estate and social investment sector
Queen’s Commerce graduate
Co-founder of 1 failed tech start-up, and a currently running not-for-profit start-up
Interested in the Social Investment area and would like to explore how finance can be used for positive impacts and social enterprises
Nick Carabetta
Principal
Food & Beverage, Fitness
Orange County
Product Coordinator @ Houzz
Profit Recovery Partners
Pepperdine MBA
Manager, Corner Bakery, Crema Cafe
https://blog.chocchildrens.org/living-hemophilia-nicks-story/
Piyush Gupta
Principal
AI in FinTech, GeoTech, EdTech. Enterprise
Silicon Valley
Terrence Yang
Angel Investor
Fintech, Lawtech, Ledgers, Privacy, Regtech
San Francisco
x-MD at $1B+ AUM value investing asset manager
Ex-Wall Street officer, swaps, ABS, MBS and securities lawyer, deal manager, executions and business development MD who helped structure, build and launch several new financial products used today
USC Bachelor of Science, Harvard Law J.D.
x-COO at Infobitt, founded by Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger
Published in Forbes, Business Insider, Apple News, Newsweek, Inc., Women 2.0
Thomas Miller
Principal
Bitcoin, Fintech
East Bay
Vishwas Hegde
Venture Partner
Software
East Bay
Analyze and recommend investments for Yang Ventures
Software Engineer
Serial Entrepreneur
Babson MBA
Dr. Vivy Chao
Co-founder
Edtech, Non-Traditional Founders
San Francisco
Founder, Yang Camp
Teaches entrepreneurship program @ Silicon Valley charter schools
Community Manager, YC startup & startup founded by creator of top 40 website
Education Pioneers Fellow @ LAUSD Common Core Technology Project
CEO of funded edtech startup
Assistant principal, STEM private school
Adjunct professor, Long Beach State
B.A., UCLA, M.Ed., USC, Ed.D., Argosy University
Focus
Terrence Yang is an angel investor who gets help from friends & invests with friends. He no longer leads deals.
We focus on startups meeting an unmet need.
Our most recent investments have been in founder friends we have known for years or in Bitcoin, law and finance related projects
Our check size is typically $25K.
Email Us
In plain English without jargon, please tell us:
*what you're building
*how you are meeting an unmet need, preferably urgent
*founder-market fit
*intro deck, one-pager (optional)
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