Sizhao Yang Email & Phone Number

Miami, Fl, Us

Invested in over 100+ seed stage companies.

Investor/Founder: MyMiniLife (Farmville, Sold to Zynga)BetterWorks (Reward & recognition for employers) Daglabs (Scalable stateless currency) Newline.co (Learning network)Investments: Lever (Application tracking system designed for highly skilled labor) E La Carte (Tablet based ordering) Wish (Discover and share products with friends) Produce pay (Next day loans for farmers)TrendMD (Knowledge discovery for doctors) Acquisitions: Shelvspace (Veeva for CPGs) Hipmunk (Acquired by Concur/SAP) GroupMe (Acquired by Skype)Kima Labs (Acquired by Groupon) Kingmaker (Acquired by Joyus) Ness (Acquired by Open Table) Calm Sea (Acquired by Coupang) Identified (Acquired by Workday) Red Hot Labs (Acquired by Google) Cucumbertown (Acquired by Cookpad) FutureAdvisor (Acquired by Blackrock) Curse Network (Acquired by Twitch/Amazon) Treasure Data (Acquired by ARM/Softbank)Investor through Secondary Markets: Facebook Investor as a result of acquisition: Zynga (Social games) Limited Partner: SV Angel (Early stage VC)Advisor: SV Angel (Early stage VC)AngelList (Platform for startups) Influitive (Advocate marketing platform) InMarket (Performance marketing for offline commerce)University of California San Francisco technology advisory board Yumi (Fresh organic baby food delivered) Fairwaves (Software defined mobile networks) Bebopbee (Creator of Snapimals) Mentor: Mucker Labs

Dfinity (Crypto world computer)Hashgraph (Gossip about gossip protocol) Handshake (Decentralized DNS) Vault12 (Social custody)Late stage investment: Bitmain (Semiconductors for crypto and AI)

Tel Aviv, Israel, Il

Daglabs is implementing a decentralized currency based on the Phantom algorithm. It avoids the scalability dilemma being scalable without sacrificing 51% threshold for attack. It allows for proof of publication and silos for application specific data. It's launching with a fair launch with no premine supported by ASICs.

ZenMarketing offers a Unified Marketing Console for marketers who invest in a portfolio of channels and initiatives to acquire users of mobile apps and web properties. Underlying the Console is an advanced platform that aggregates, validates, repairs and integrates spend data, attribution data, revenue data and behavioral data from all of the marketer's ad networks, DSPs, agencies, attribution companies, and internal systems. The ZenMarketing Console enables marketers to then slice and dice their data to measure ROI for granular cohorts using numbers that the marketers can trust. The result is that marketers can realize a higher return on the capital they deploy across their portfolio of investments.Representative customers included Uber, Lyft, Spotify, Netease, Zynga. Managed over 200M of annual spend.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Led a 5 person executive team (product, engineering, finance, operations, business development, customer care) on a weekly basis to set strategy, measure key results, execute weekly projects, and align with strategic priorities. Hired and managed a 25 person organization (product/engineering/design/finance), implementing a local ecommerce engine that linked end local businesses to businesses providing the entire experience around menu, ordering, payment, and fulfillment. The payment system was a transactional and subscription system with ability to split payments across vendors, customers, and businesses accepting CC and ACH. In the last 5 months, I managed a team of 60+ people (full time plus contractors) streamlining all aspects of the entire company. Led engineering execution and launched the product in 2 months with 3 engineers.

San Francisco, California, Us

Co-created Farmville from MyMiniLife technology. The Farmville engine subsequently is standarized as the common infrastructure for Zynga. Farmville has won awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Crunchies, and Game Developers Conference (top industry awards). Farmville has over 200M registered users. Product execution and launch of Farmville features, Farmville.com, and Farmville iPhone. Full stack development of Farmville. Executed on corporate development projects including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy.Farmville 1 & 2 made over 3 billion dollars and reached over 500M users (non-deduped).

Launched and grew MyMiniLife.com and MyMiniLife based social networking applications, a virtual decoration site to 4 million registered users, growing ~20% month over month.Co-created Farmville, which was a joint project between Zynga and MyMiniLife. All rights to the farm game was owned from week 1 to 3 of creation by MyMiniLife, Inc. and post acquisition, week 4/5 was owned by Zynga and was subsequently rebranded to Farmville. Farmville was launched in week 5. Managed a team of 4 full time employees, 6 contractors (design/artists/translators/programmers), 6 advisors (PR, Design, Scalability, Advertising, Art). Lead all aspects of the business: architecting/implementing the original product, product and user experience, technology direction, scaling, system administration, fundraising, legal work, recruiting, and merger & acquisition. Was the sole founder from July 2006 to December 2007, the company was called Mocha Soft, LLC.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM SCORE was an enterprise content management system for life sciences. Coded features of web services backend, Microsoft Word COM web service client,and AJAX web client for SCORE for big financial and pharmaceutical clients.

Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science