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Chia Jeng Yang
Founder of WhyHow.AI
San Francisco, California
Overview
Chia Jeng Yang is a successful entrepreneur and investor, known for co-founding WhyHow.AI and making significant financial gains for many individuals while working at Saison Capital, Bessemer Ventures, and Pantera Capital. With a background in firefighting as a Platoon Commander with the Singapore Civil Defence Force, Chia has also played key roles in building successful ventures like Daraz, acquired by Alibaba, and Mobforest as a Co-Founder.
Currently, Chia serves as Head of Agentic & RAG-Native Knowledge Graph Studio in San Francisco, showcasing expertise in project management, entrepreneurship, and leadership, with a strong focus on investing in sectors like E-commerce, Web3/Crypto, and FinTech in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
Investing - Made a lot of people a lot of money
2019 - 2024
Generalist - with spikes in SaaS, e-comm, fintech, blockchain
Building: Daraz - Acquired by Alibaba
2017 - 2018
GVD at Daraz - leading e-commerce platform in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal, serving over 500 million customers. Backed by Rocket Internet & CDC Group.
Fought Fires (literally) - Platoon Commander
2012 - 2014
Sergeant -> Lieutenant -> SCDF NSF of the Year
Building: Co-Founder
2013 - 2013
MobForest was an online education start-up that helped link social enterprises with schools. Worked with amazing people to learn how not to build companies.