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Michelangelo Ho

Limited Partner at FOG Ventures

Greater Seattle Area

Overview 

Michelangelo Ho is a seasoned professional with a background in product and tech, having held key roles at Amazon as Global Head of Product and at Silicon Road as Managing Director. Noteworthy achievements include being a 2-time founder and having expertise in product, growth, strategy, and innovation, with a focus on industries such as lodging/hospitality, food and beverage, and e-commerce.

Work Experience 

  • Product Executive

    2024 - Current

    Product leader driving portfolio strategy optimizing for growth through AI based innovation.

  • Limited Partner

    2023

    Venture capitalist for Tier 1 tech companies solving for modern day Office of the Operator (CEO, CFO, COO, People) .

  • Global Head of Product

    2020 - 2023

    Led a 20+ product team along 100s of engineers driving 0-to-1 efforts to significantly decrease delivery speeds and improve Driver Communications and Experience within Amazon's Last Mile marketplace generating billions in revenue. Heavy use of AI to exponentially unlock innovations and drive large financial impact.

Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.

  • Venture Capitalist - Managing Director

    2019 - 2020

    Early stage venture capital seed fund.

Silicon Road Ventures is a vertical fund exclusively focused on commerce tech.

  • Co-Founder & Board Member

    2015 - 2020

    • Led 0-1 development and launch marketplace for 10K small truck fleets using AI/Natural Language Processing. • Launched AI/ML based shipper marketplace and APIs for high volume enterprise shippers like Walmart, ABinBev, CHEP, UPS.

  • FinTech Accelerator Head & Georgia Tech Research Faculty

    2015 - 2017

    Built and ran the FinTech Accelerator at Georgia Tech/ATDC for Georgia based entrepreneurs. ATDC is ranked by Forbes as a "Top 12 Business Incubators Changing the World" supporting ~10,000 entrepreneurs per year. Screened 1000s of entrepreneurs while helping startups raise $150M. Incubated GreenLight now valued at $2.3B.

ATDC helps entrepreneurs launch and build transformative technology companies.

  • Member Board of Directors

    2015 - 2017

    TAG Fintech builds recognition of Georgia as the hub of choice for the world’s leading financial technology providers. The society’s goals include accelerating the accumulation of capital by its members, and to foster a business environment conducive to the ongoing success of companies, employees, service providers, educational institutions, entrepreneurs, and investors. As a result, this helps them to create, build, and maintain innovative financial services that meet their customers’ growing needs.

  • Head of Product

    2011 - 2014

  • Director Product Management - Mobile Payments

    2008 - 2011

    Mobile payments strategy and new product development as part of new Mobile Commerce business including TSM for Google Wallet. Co-inventor of US patent #8,650,071 for “Mobile Coupon Analysis System and Methods”.

First Data Corporation provides electronic commerce and payment solutions for merchants, financial institutions and card issuers.

Raised $3,500,000,000.00 from Rancilio Cube Sicaf and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

  • Chief Product Officer

    2006 - 2008

    • Productized IP to provide real time traffic congestion data covering 98% of the US vehicular road network, acquiring customers like Google Maps and GA-DOT. • Led efforts to collect and analyze 300k miles of ground truth data across the top 100 MSAs, improving congestion detection by 400%. • Instituted product development and portfolio management processes, increasing revenue by 67%.

AirSage provides population location, movement, and traffic information based on wireless signaling data.

Raised $27,630,000.00 from CONSTELLATION CAPITAL AG and CONSTELLATION CAPITAL AG.

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