Lauren cofounded Acrew Capital where she focuses on investments in what Acrew has coined “financial services rebuilt” and “work reimagined.” Prior to Acrew, Lauren was a partner at Aspect Ventures, which she joined at its founding and where she helped to build out the team. Key Deals: Chime, Pie Insurance, Divvy, La Haus, Papaya Payments Mingming received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University and an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Mingming previously served as the Independent Director of Kingsoft Corporation, as well as Board Member for Li Auto and Niu Technologies. He began his career at Hewlett-Packard, Siebel Systems and PeopleSoft. He invested in a number of highly successful start-ups including Autohome Inc. He built successful companies that were later acquired by Google and Alibaba. Prior to Future Capital, Mingming was an early participant in China’s burgeoning start-up ecosystem both as a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Other “first-check” investments led by Mingming include Niu Technologies (NASDAQ: NIU), Newborn Town (9911.HK), Sensors Data, and Narwal. He was the first institutional investor in Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI) at its angel round, and saw the company grow to more than $23 billion in value. He has since established a track record in identifying high potential start-ups and creating industry-leading companies. He founded Future Capital Discovery Fund, an early-stage venture fund specializing in enterprise service and high-tech sectors in China, in 2014. Mingming has built a strong reputation as an early-stage investor, serial entrepreneur, and engineer. Key Deals: Li Auto, Autohome, Niu Technologies Mingming Huang Future Capital Discovery Fund 645 Ventures has invested in breakout successes including Goldbelly, Iterable, FiscalNote, Squire, Resident/Nectar Sleep, FLY Labs (acquired by Google), Source3 (acquired by Facebook), Abacus (acquired by Certify), and several other category-defining companies.Īaron received a BS in Computer Science with honors from Morehouse College and an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management. Since founding 645 Ventures in 2014, Aaron has worked closely with portfolio company founders to strengthen and grow their businesses and achieve scale. Aaron now serves on the governing board of Cornell Tech alongside of a small group of tech and business leaders including Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Eric Schmidt, David Siegel, Robert Smith, and Ursula Burns. As the first Managing Entrepreneurial Officer at Cornell Tech, Aaron worked in tandem with former Twitter CTO Greg Pass to create and pioneer the campus Studio culture and pedagogy, in addition to guiding complex technology startups toward commercial success. He has 20 years of deep finance and technology expertise, having developed advanced equities Program Trading and foreign exchange derivatives software at Goldman Sachs and GFI Group, combined with operational experience working with CEOs to build growth-stage companies. Aaron oversees the firm’s investing approach and decisions, proprietary software development strategy, investor relations, and firm governance. Key Deals: Resident, Goldbelly, Fiscalnote, Iterable, SquireĪaron Holiday is the Cofounder and Managing Partner at 645 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm that is considered a pioneer in data-driven deal sourcing powered by proprietary software.
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