Wei Lien Dang
General Partner at Unusual Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Angel Investor / Advisor to early-stage startups
2021 - Current
Investor or advisor to the following companies: Gretel (acq. by NVIDIA) Stealth AI-native observability company Stealth AI robotics company Stealth AI data security company Stealth AI-native security operations company
General Partner
2021 - 2024
Unusual is a leading early-stage VC firm with >$1B AUM that helps technical founders find product-market fit. I led seed-stage investments in infrastructure software - AI, data, security, dev tools, OSS - and partnered with founders early in their journeys to build transformational companies. Select investments/companies that I led, was on the board and/or closely worked with: - Tobiko Data - Qdrant - Socket - Kusari - HippoML -> NVIDIA - Resolve.ai
Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital offering hands-on support and expertise to startups on their early-stage journey.
Senior Director, Security - Product Management & Marketing
2021 - 2021
Joined Red Hat via the acquisition of StackRox, where I was a co-founder. Responsible for security across the OpenShift and OpenStack platforms, including Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (formerly StackRox, which was acquired by Red Hat in February 2021: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acquire-kubernetes-native-security-leader-stackrox). Lead the teams responsible for product management, UX design, documentation, technical evangelism, and marketing. I was co-founder and product leader at StackRox (see positions below).
Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer
2020 - 2021
Led company-wide, cross-functional initiatives focused on GTM, marketing strategy, technical evangelism, and thought leadership. StackRox was acquired by Red Hat in February 2021: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acquire-kubernetes-native-security-leader-stackrox StackRox was a cloud-native security startup backed by Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Amplify Partners.
Co-founder and Vice President of Product
2016 - 2020
Responsible for product management, product marketing, product strategy, technical evangelism, user experience, design, and technical writing for the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform.
StackRox is a Kubernetes-native security platform for cloud-native applications, containers, serverless, and Kubernetes.
Raised $65,500,000.00 from Redpoint, Highland Capital Partners, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Sequoia Capital and Menlo Ventures.
Head of Product
2016 - 2016
Member of the executive team. Responsible for product management, product marketing, and strategy across a portfolio of open source container technologies and commercial products focused on Kubernetes. CoreOS was acquired by Red Hat in January 2018: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acquire-coreos-expanding-its-kubernetes-and-containers-leadership CoreOS was a cloud-native infrastructure startup backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Accel, Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Fuel Capital, and the Y Combinator Continuity Fund.
Senior Manager, Product Management
2014 - 2016
Led product management, product marketing, and strategy for a new cloud security platform. Built new products focused on data encryption and key management for Global 2000 enterprise customers. Bracket’s technology and team were acquired by VMware in May 2018. Bracket was a cloud security startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sutter Hill Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, GE, and Qualcomm.
Senior Product Manager
2013 - 2014
Led product management and product marketing to launch Amazon WorkDocs, an enterprise cloud storage and sharing service.
Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Investment Team
2012 - 2013
Some a16z investments that I worked on: GitHub, Cumulus Networks, Meteor, Gainspeed, Switch
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Product Manager
2011 - 2011
Led product management and launch of the Splunk App for Web Intelligence, one of the first applications that leveraged Splunk's machine data platform.
Splunk Ventures is an Investment Firm.