Tien Wong

CEO

2002 - Current

Private investment and advisory firm investing in life sciences, health tech, and CRM. We also help companies and fund managers (private equity, VC and hedge funds) raise private capital from our community of 4000+ family offices, UHNW individuals, and institutions. opus8.com

Managing General Partner

2019

Founder and Host

2012

The Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Forum is a global community of 30,000+ CEOs, investors, entrepreneurs, VCs, angels, and business leaders. Our unique content and events celebrate innovation and support high level connection and engagement among investors and entrepreneurs. We host the world's largest monthly virtual investor pitch events with 500-1000 attendees online. Our monthly in-person Forums mash up 400+ top founders, investors, angels, CXOs, VCs, & early stage ecosystem players featuring awesome networking, newsmaking speakers, and a showcase of emerging tech companies. Event locations: Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, Baltimore, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Orange County, CA. Previous speakers include Steve Case, Governor Terry McAuliffe, Reggie Aggarwal, David Trone, Seth Goldman, David Steinberg, Dave Gardner, Tim Chi, Mark Ein, Joe Payne, Chip Paucek, Mark Walsh, Michael Bronfein, Doug Humphrey, Tommy Davidson, Tim Hwang, Don Rainey, Rick Rudman, and Sudhakar Kesavan, among others. Over 70% of our attendees surveyed rank CONNECTpreneur as the Number One tech networking event in the Mid-Atlantic region. Partners include JP Morgan, Capital One, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Forvis Mazars, BDO, RSM, Bank of America, Modus Create, New York Life, TEDCO, CBRE, Deloitte, Wilson Sonsini, INOVA, NFP, Truist Financial, WeWork, Georgetown U, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, George Washington U, Womble Bond Dickinson, Howard Hughes Corp., NEXT, powered by Shulman Rogers, MD Department of COMMERCE, MD Tech Council, Northern VA Tech Council, NOVA Chamber of Commerce, and the Association for Enterprise Growth. Multiple media outlets have called CONNECTpreneur one of the top tech and investor networking events in the USA. Join our LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8204767 LIKE us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Connectpreneur Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @connectpreneur Website: connectpreneur.org #connectpreneur

Venture Partner

2023

$25 million AUM initial fund. Currently raising $75 million second fund. Our mission is to direct capital to the highest-performing ventures in the advanced technology arena, with a specific focus on innovations in aerospace, defense and intelligence, and national security that have dual-use applications in the civilian economy. IronGate Capital Advisors is managed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in finance, national security, and technology.

Investment Advisory Board Member

2006

Virginia Venture Partners (VVP) is a strategic venture investment platform of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation. Since 2005, Virginia Venture Partners has placed direct equity investments in Virginia’s leading technology, energy, life science and scale-able non-tech start-ups through a family of seed and early-stage investment funds. Through VVP Fund of Funds, Virginia Venture Partners invests in venture capital fund managers committed to the Commonwealth of Virginia and aligned with VVP’s early-stage investment thesis. VVP’s complementary investment strategies enable the Commonwealth of Virginia to partner with and catalyze both fund managers and entrepreneurs in contribution to the next generation of Virginia’s technology and technology companies.

Board Member

2023

FITCI is the largest business incubator & accelerator in the State of Maryland and one of the largest in the Mid-Atlantic region. Since 2004, FITCI has served over 260 companies which have received coaching, capital and connections support. FITCI programs include Startup University and CEO advisory boards along with pitch fests. FITCI Companies have created over 1160+ jobs, raised $160 million, and contribute over $84 million to the economy annually. Currently, FITCI is home to 74 companies. The community Accelerator has expanded to include the F3Tech Accelerator designed to better support Agrotech Companies, life science related commercialization and manufacturing and attract new companies to Maryland through FITCI’s Soft Landing Program. 54 Volunteer CEOs serve as company advisors as part of FITCI’s Strategic Growth & Advisory Boards. FITCI actively partners on workforce development, apprenticeship and internship programs with a focus on attracting, training and inspiring a new generation of life science workers from historically underrepresented segments of our population.

Advisor

2021

ANB Technologies is a leading technology consulting firm that provides end-to-end Enterprise Service Management solutions and services to help clients achieve business transformation outcomes. Our mission is to help customers digitize and automate their enterprise processes in a cost-effective manner.

Advisor

2022

Nanobiofab is a nanotech-based healthcare company that provides smart nanosensors (such as pressure sensors, gas sensors) for health management.

GO Virginia Region 7 Council Member

2023

GO Virginia is an initiative by Virginia’s senior business leaders to foster private-sector growth and job creation through state incentives for regional collaboration by business, education, and government.

Chairman

2013

Advanced technology training and content development and delivery. Lumious (TM) learning analytics platform provides insights into all learning activities. LRS (learning record store) and analytics engine built on the xAPI e-learning standard enables personalized learning. Lumious.com