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Young Ling

Investor

United Kingdom

Overview 

Young Ling is a seasoned Venture Capital professional with a background in trading and investment management, currently specializing in Web3/Blockchain and Web3/Crypto sectors at Multicoin Capital and Folius Ventures. With a Bachelor of Science from The London School of Economics and Political Science, Ling has excelled in risk management, portfolio management, and options strategies, demonstrating expertise in financial modeling and data analysis. Ling's career highlights include roles at Norges Bank Investment Management and Brevan Howard, showcasing a strong foundation in public equities and trading, as well as contributions to strategy and growth at Switcheo Labs and Nansen.

Work Experience 

  • Founder

    2025 - Current

    AI

  • Various Projects

    2023

    Imperial College Hack Health Tech Track 1st Place ETH London Gateway.FM Challenge 1st Place Imperial Algothon G-Research Challenge 2nd Place

  • Angel Investor

    2022

    Select Investments: Panoptic (Options on Uniswap) , Cambria (Town Square x Web3), Madu (Africa Remittances/Payments), Kaikaku (AI x Food), SpaceX (via SPAC)

  • Public Equities

    2024 - 2024

    L/S EM Greater China/India Built low-frequency quant pipelines

  • Trading

    2023 - 2023

    Trading -- Macro Hedge Fund Built RAG Project with Langchain Built Quant/Markov pipelines Turned down return offer

  • Investor

    2022 - 2022

    Token L/S & Early stage equity.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

    Liquid + Venture w/ APAC focus.

Folius Ventures invests, popularizes, and participates in the construction of the Web3 ecosystem.

  • Research

    2021 - 2021

    Generating on-chain alpha w/ Python/SQL First Research Hire (~pre-a16z). 10+ --> 70 Bloomberg & Coindesk quoted

  • Platoon Trainer, Army Logistics Training Institute

    2019 - 2020

    Building the best learning experience for 100+ adults. Rifles, bandages and grit. Overcame my fear of public speaking.

  • Assistant Infrastructure @ Padang, National Day Parade 2020

    2020 - 2020

    On-site construction works at Padang, building Singapore's national day experience.

  • Cadet trainee

    2019 - 2019

    Best memory: manning the GPMG in a body deep trench, soaked with mud and water to the waist, preparing to fire as a wild boar threatened to charge at us.

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