EFL

Role: Mentor

Tracks: Deep Tech

Wally Wang

Founder and Managing Partner, SAV(Scale Asia Ventures)

Wally Wang is the Founding Managing Partner of Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture fund SAV(Scale Asia Ventures), focused on Enterprise Software and AI-enabled Vertical Industries. Fund backers include prominent family offices, and publicly traded conglomerates in the U.S. as well as S. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. Selected fund portfolios include Argilla(acq. by Hugging Face), CloudVector(acq. by NASDAQ: IMPV), Scale AI(Decacorn), VastData(Decacorn) etc. Before SAV, Wally led Asian conglomerate Fosun International(AUM $100B) and an Asian family office(AUM $10B) in venture investments in the U.S. and served on the boards of portfolios with over $300M in capital deployed and successful exists include Digital Ocean(NYSE: DOCN), Reposify(acq. by NASDAQ: CRWD) etc. Wally started his career as a PM at Microsoft Bing. He later built data platforms at Pebble(Y Combinator) and Misfit in Silicon Valley, both of which were merged as critical infrastructure into Google’s Wear OS. Wally has spent over a decade in enterprise software and A.I. space as a product and business executive, including Lattice Engines in MarTech(acq. by NYSE: DNB) and DataVisor in FinTech(Sequoia & NEA-backed). Wally graduated from Tsinghua University with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and studied in the Ph.D. program at NYU Stern School of Business and was a visiting scholar at CMU School of Computer Science. He is also an advisor of NYU EFL, UC Berkeley SkyDeck, named by Forbes as Top 100 Global Outstanding Chinese and by Barron's China Top 50 Investors.