Edith Yeung
Consultant / Advisor at 500 Startups Management Co LLC
Profile
Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital – an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure.
Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups.
Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world’s most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.
Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital – backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide.
Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.
She frequently speaks on venture capital, women in leadership, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape.
She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, The Information, etc.
Edith Yeung active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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500 Startups Management Co LLC
500 Startups Management Co LLC Investment ManagersFinance 500 Startups Management Co LLC (500 Startups) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Consultant / Advisor | 2014-10-31 |
Race Capital
Race Capital Investment ManagersFinance Race Capital (Race capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Alfred Chuang. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Private Equity Investor | 2019-05-31 |
Former positions of Edith Yeung
Companies | Position | End |
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The Hungary-Missouri Educational Partnership | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
MoboTap, Inc.
MoboTap, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services MoboTap, Inc. provides mobile web browser. It offers Dolphin Browser, a free web-browser specifically created and optimized for mobiles. The firm’s browser is available on Android and iOS platforms. The company was founded by Yongzhi Yang and Na Zeng in March 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Sales & Marketing | - |
Cisco Capital
Cisco Capital Finance/Rental/LeasingFinance Cisco Capital is an investment banking firm located in San Jose, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
TelStrat, Inc.
TelStrat, Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications TelStrat, Inc. provides communication solutions for wireline access networks and enterprise telecommunications environments. It caters business process outsourcers, financial services, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance and utilities sectors. The firm also develops comprehensive call recording and workforce optimization (WFO) solutions, for knowledge-mining call content, maximizing agent performance and streamlining workforce management. The company was founded by Robert J. Carroll in 1993 and is headquartered in Allen, TX. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
AUTODESK, INC. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of Edith Yeung
Purdue University | Undergraduate Degree |
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Linked companies
Listed companies | 2 |
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ORACLE CORPORATION | Technology Services |
AUTODESK, INC. | Technology Services |
Private companies | 9 |
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RightVentures
RightVentures Investment ManagersFinance RightVentures is an independent venture capital firm founded by Edith Yeung in 2010. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
AT&T Wireless PCS LLC
AT&T Wireless PCS LLC Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications AT&T Wireless is provider of wireless communications services in the southeastern United States. As of December 31, 2003, the company’s wireless communications licenses covered approximately 13.6 million potential customers in a contiguous geographic area encompassing portions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky. In February 1998. The company entered into a joint venture with AT&T Wireless. As part of this agreement, AT&T Wireless contributed personal communications services licenses for 20 MHz of authorized frequencies covering 11.3 million potential customers within defined areas of our region in exchange for an equity position in Holdings. Since that time, the company have expanded its coverage area to include an additional 2.3 million potential customers through acquisitions and license exchanges with AT&T Wireless. | Communications |
Siebel Systems, Inc.
Siebel Systems, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Siebel Systems, Inc. develops customer relationship management software that automates sales and customer-service operations of large corporations. It products enable companies to distribute customer information to call centers, direct sales teams, resellers, retailers and web-based sales forces. The company was founded in 1993 by Thomas M. Siebel & Patricia A. House and is located in San Mateo, CA | Technology Services |
Cisco Capital
Cisco Capital Finance/Rental/LeasingFinance Cisco Capital is an investment banking firm located in San Jose, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc. | Finance |
TelStrat, Inc.
TelStrat, Inc. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications TelStrat, Inc. provides communication solutions for wireline access networks and enterprise telecommunications environments. It caters business process outsourcers, financial services, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance and utilities sectors. The firm also develops comprehensive call recording and workforce optimization (WFO) solutions, for knowledge-mining call content, maximizing agent performance and streamlining workforce management. The company was founded by Robert J. Carroll in 1993 and is headquartered in Allen, TX. | Communications |
The Hungary-Missouri Educational Partnership | |
MoboTap, Inc.
MoboTap, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services MoboTap, Inc. provides mobile web browser. It offers Dolphin Browser, a free web-browser specifically created and optimized for mobiles. The firm’s browser is available on Android and iOS platforms. The company was founded by Yongzhi Yang and Na Zeng in March 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Commercial Services |
500 Startups Management Co LLC
500 Startups Management Co LLC Investment ManagersFinance 500 Startups Management Co LLC (500 Startups) is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Race Capital
Race Capital Investment ManagersFinance Race Capital (Race capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Alfred Chuang. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Finance |
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