Jessie Chuang
Managing Director at Global League
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2023 - Current
TOP-DOWN LANDSCAPE STUDY AND BOTTOM-UP INVESTOR COLLABORATION FOR IMPACTFUL INVESTING AND VENTURING. https://g-l.ventures/ I start this network and organize the deal sourcing, sharing, collaborative evaluation process, and diligence. Before introducing deals, I study high potential sectors to identify promising companies, follow their progress, prescreen deals based on key qualitative and quantitative data, as well as industry insights. About AI infra trends, written in 2024: AI Infrastructure Thesis-Based Deal Tracking: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-infrastructure-thesis-based-deal-tracking-wise-ocean-nanyc/ Cooling/heat recovery technologies: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tracking-ai-data-center-cooling-companies-wise-ocean-ysb8c/ Energy and sustainability for AI data centers: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/energy-sustainability-ai-infrastructure-wise-ocean-womwc/ Semiconductors and connectivity for AI data centers: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/connectivity-modern-ai-data-centers-unicorn-maker-wise-ocean-s3koc/ Data center development, efficiency, and operation: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/notable-trends-next-generation-ai-data-centers-wise-ocean-qdk5c/ Photonics Upgrading AI Computing to the Speed of Light: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/photonics-upgrading-ai-computing-speed-light-wise-ocean-3dkpc/ AI Arms Race, Semiconductors and StateCraft: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gl-signals-ai-infrastructure-semiconductors-statecraft-wise-ocean-lv4zc/ More Connectivity Unicorns for Modern AI Data Centers: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/connectivity-modern-ai-data-centers-unicorn-maker-wise-ocean-s3koc/ 2025 - A Year for AI Infrastructure/Verticalization, Robotics and Space: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gl-signals-2025-year-ai-infrastructureverticalization-robotics-evudc/ 2025 Industry Snapshot - Semiconductor Subsectors with CAGR 26~86%: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/semiconductor-subsectors-cagr-2686-wise-ocean-blrpf/
Member
2023
VC community
Opinion Columnist
2022
Writing about important market and industry trends, policies, and frontier innovations; more observations on the US and Taiwan, and on energy transitions, sustainability, AI/HPC, semiconductors and VC/PE/corporate investments.
Associate Partner
2024 - 2025
Job Scope: Deal Sourcing, Tracking, Evaluation and Diligence, Capital Raising and Investor Relations, Market Landscape Research and Reporting, Set Up Workflows for the VC/PE Firm Productivity Enventure is a VC/PE team with backgrounds from IBM, Deloitte, NASA, UMC, Goldman Sachs, and Columbia Endowment Fund. The combined experiences include decades of working and consulting in healthcare, semiconductors, AI transformation, business scaling and startup growth, backed by knowledge across government affairs, investment banking, M&A, finance, and legal matters. THRIVE+D method is our framework - We build data-driven, AI-enabled workflows for landscape research, deal quest, and tracking deals/signals/trends while using human touch models to respond to the needs of our LPs and portfolio companies for growth. Our cross-border presence in the US, India, Taiwan, and Latam enables us to access top innovations, help scale businesses across borders, and tap market white spaces or key capabilities in other countries. We co-invest with top investors with track records in our focused sectors, crunch data to calculate exit potential for decision-making and collect industry insights from experts.
Austin Chapter Chair
2024 - 2025
TINVA is a spinoff of ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) to help Taiwan deep-tech startups grow and connect with global resources and investors, and help global startups collaborate with Taiwan industries.
Angel Investor
2023 - 2025
Collaborating on deal evaluation, diligence, data collection, and angel investing with Global League, ACA, SWAN Impact Network, ventureLab(Canada), Gaingels, Sandhill Markets, AngelList, NATO DIANA program, Silicon Catalyst, etc., I've invested in YC startups, AI-enabled applications, and ocean-based carbon capture companies. One exit is ScienceIO, which develops a biomedical large language model/solution to transform complex medical text into usable data and actionable insights.
The Angel Capital Association is a professional and trade association supporting the success of angel investors.
Mentor & Judge
2022 - 2025
Judging startup fundraising events according to comprehensive evaluation on multiple dimensions, giving feedback., and fact-checking
Founding Partner
2018 - 2024
Wise Ocean builds up a global network to connect proven startups, industry experts, corporate innovators, ecosystem partners, government agencies, and investors for venture building and business scaling across borders. Some industry analysis: In 2021 - 邊緣 AI（Edge AI）的半導體創新機會 https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/edge-ai-semi-opportunities/ In 2021 - 從互聯網+ 到人工智能+ — 談邊緣計算的先行領域 https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/internet-ai-edge-ai-applications/ In 2021 - 美國半導體十年計劃 https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/semiconductor-decadal-plan-overview/ In 2021 - 給 AI 晶片投資者的重要圖解 https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/ai-infographics-investors/ In 2021 - 可穿戴裝置與醫療產業交集的商機起飛 https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/wearable-digital-health/ In 2023 - 美國健康醫療市場切入和募資 https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/us-health-gtm/ In 2023 - 電動車在智慧能源架構中的角色 https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/ev-v2g-der/ In 2023 - 美國氣候科技機會的快速概述 https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/us-climate-tech-quickview/ In 2023 - Manufacturing and Semiconductor Boom in the US: https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/manufacturing-and-semiconductor-boom-in-the-us/ In 2023 - AI Inference Chips Get the Most Attention from Semiconductor VC: https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/inferencing-ai-chips-vc/ In 2023 - Generative AI Funding Trend and Defensibility: https://wiseocean.g-l.ventures/generative-ai-funding-defensibility/
Chair, Corporate and International Engagement
2018 - 2022
ICICLE promotes the use of engineering and design thinking in talent and knowledge community development, builds a network for exchanges between professionals, and facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration. Before working with IEEE ICICLE, Jessie was actively involved in building, promoting, and applying the Experience API(xAPI), the latest learning standard initiated by ADL of DoD (Department of Defense), including chairing/building/hosting xAPI Chinese CoP (Community of Practice).
Startup Mentor
2020 - 2021
Early stage startup mentoring