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Lyon Wong

Founder, Investor and LP

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Lyon Wong is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor based in Palo Alto, California, known for founding V0 and serving as Managing Partner, as well as co-founding and chairing Blameless. With a strong background in venture capital, angel investing, and product development, Lyon has made strategic investments in notable companies like Affirm, Inc., Blend Labs, and Freenome, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and business strategy.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2023 - Current

  • Co-Founder, Chairman

    2018 - 2024

    The complete Site Reliability Engineering platform. www.blameless.com

The complete site reliability engineering (SRE) platform.

Raised $50,100,000.00 from Decibel Partners, Accel, Product Co-op, Third Point Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

  • Pre-seed / Seed Scout

    2018 - 2023

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.

  • ML7 Fellow

    2016 - 2022

  • Investor

    2013 - 2021

    Affirm offers services that empower consumers to advance their financial well-being. Affirm shoppers get the flexibility to buy now and make simple monthly payments for their purchases.

Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.

Raised $2,020,000,000.00 from PGIM Fixed Income.

  • Investor

    2013 - 2021

    Blend is an enterprise technology company that improves lending for the most important purchase of their life: the home. For homebuyers, our product means a clear, guided path to a new home. For lenders, it means modern, easy-to-use tools that let employees spend their time helping customers, rather than on repetitive, manual tasks.

Blend is a digital lending platform that facilitates the entire lending process, from application to underwriting to closing.

Raised $815,000,000.00 from Haveli Investments.

  • Investor

    2017 - 2018

Freenome is a biotechnology company with a comprehensive multiomics platform for cancer detection using a routine blood draw.

Raised $1,351,550,000.00 from BrightEdge Fund, T. Rowe Price, ArrowMark Partners, Roche, Section 32, Sands Capital Ventures, Artis Ventures (AV), Andreessen Horowitz, ARK Investment Management and Pura Vida Investments.

  • Investor

    2016 - 2018

Rhumbix is a construction field data company that digitizes field data and workflows into the cloud via mobile device.

Raised $45,934,518.00 from Glynn Capital Management, Tenfore Holdings, Blackhorn Ventures, WND Ventures, TFX Capital, Greylock and Darren Bechtel.

  • Investor

    2015 - 2018

    NextVR is a pioneer in capturing and delivering immersive, high-definition, live and recorded virtual reality experiences.

  • Investor

    2015 - 2017

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