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Roger Kuo

Strategic Advisor at Primary Venture Partners

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Roger Kuo is a Venture Capital Investor and Platform Head based in San Francisco, California. He has excelled in helping early-stage startups achieve growth and success through operations, strategy, connections, and fundraising. Noteworthy highlights of his career include serving as a Strategic Advisor at Primary Venture Partners and investing in companies like Sote Logistics and microTERRA during their Seed Rounds.

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.

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