Wally Wang

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. SAV invests in expat-founded enterprise-focused technologies and scales them globally. Fund backers include prominent family offices, and publicly-traded conglomerates in the U.S. as well as S. Korea, Japan, and Singapore. Selected portfolios include CloudVector(acq. by NASDAQ: IMPV), Array, Subtle Medical, Weaviate, Portside, CAST AI, Pangea Cyber and Great Expectations. Before SAV, Wally led Asian conglomerate Fosun(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. His successful exists include Digital Ocean(NYSE: DOCN), Reposify(acq. by NASDAQ: CRWD). Wally started his career as a PM at Microsoft Bing in Asia. He later built data platforms at Pebble(Y Combinator W11) 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 studied machine learning 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 UC Berkeley SkyDeck and SFSU. Wally was a speaker at New York Venture Summit, and Asia PE-VC Summit and was recognized as Global 100 Outstanding Chinese by Forbes in 2022.