Roger Kuo
Strategic Advisor at Primary Venture Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Strategic Advisor
2024 - Current
Strategic Advisor
2017
Advised startups on product-market fit, go-to-market strategy, and fundraising. Also played a key role in enhancing branding, market strategy, and organizational efficiency, contributing to their growth and success.
Chief Corporate Development Officer
2022 - 2023
Social PayMe is an all-in-one platform for social media aggregation/management and fintech/compliance solution for influencers, brands, and fans. Owned the fundraising and investor relations functions, spearheaded high-impact projects and partnerships, and managed daily operations of a team of 15.
Chief of Staff
2022 - 2023
Venture Investor
2020 - 2022
GoingVC is a multifaceted organization built around the idea of making venture capital education, investing, networks, and talent more accessible to those with the desire to succeed. Supported programming and spearheaded a team of 5 to improve member engagement and hiring outcomes in the program, promote the company and members in the VC ecosystem, and facilitate deal making among VCs. GoingVC Partners (GVCP) funds early-stage startups and invests in companies backed by leading venture capital firms including Insight Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Founders Fund, and many more. Sourced and evaluated over 800 pre-seed to series A startups for potential investment and presented key merits and risks to the partners.
Head of Community and Events
2020 - 2022
Director of Product Marketing
2016 - 2017
CardPlus is a new platform approach to addressing the key pain points in payments, radically improving consumer convenience and confidence while enhancing the consumer-merchant relationship: for online, IoT, and in-store use. Our mission is to transform the familiar and preferred 60-year-old payment method, into an even more securely connected interactive payment platform.
PaaS (Payments as a Platform) vehicle for IoT connected in-wallet applications, P2P Card-to-Card, Dynamic Tokenizing, eCommerce, Blockchain
Director of Business Development
2015 - 2016
Shanghai Valley allows Chinese investors unprecedented access to investment opportunities; and helps exceptional companies raise strategic capital and resources.