Huai Wang

CEO & Founder @ Linear Capital

About

Huai Wang (Harry) is the CEO & Founder of Linear Capital (Linear), a fund management company with US$2B AUM, specialized in early stage technology investments related to China and the great Asia area. Huai has led investments into 120+ technology companies, mainly in data and AI related topics. He also served as a CEO advisor to Baixing, Dianping & CSDN. In 2013, Huai published a book, How Facebook was engineered, popular in the Internet startup community. Prior to co-founding Linear, Huai worked for Facebook in California as a full-stack Engineer in 2007-2009 and as an Engineering Manager in 2009-2011. He earned his Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University. Huai is a Fellow of the third class of the China Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He is aslo selected to the Class of 2018 of Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum. Harry holds a patent on social economy using credits: http://www.patentbuddy.com/Inventor/Wang-Huai/14190855. For Harry's detailed resume, please check docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgfgqxqk_29g38q67. Harry's most favorite line: let's get it done.

Country

City

Industry

Investment Management

Skill

People Management, LAMP, FACTS, Cloud Computing, Engineering, Security, Product Management, Java, Machine Learning, Entrepreneurship, Python, Distributed Systems, MySQL, Payment Systems, Electronic Payment Processing, Management, SaaS, Mobile Payments, Linux, JavaScript

Experience

CEO & Founder

Linear Capital

2014-9 - Present · 12 yrs

Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing

Linear Capital manages 7 USD funds and 4 RMB funds, with AUM around US$2B. The phases we cover are angel round to series A round, where we can lead or co-invest 1M to 10M USD in each deal. I am responsible for sourcing and investing into venture fundable technology-driven China startups that Linear Capital is determined to help. Our team has invested in 70+ companies so far including Horizon Robotics, Rokid, Sensors Data, dianping.com, baixing.com, kujiale.com, aylanetworks.com (US), dianrong.com, shequ001.com, fraudmetrix.cn and etc.

CEO Advisor

Meituan

2012-10 - 2014-9 · 2 yrs

Shanghai City, China

I advise on challenging engineering and product issues faced by dianping.com. To be precise, I am spending my Tuesday and Thursday afternoons working with the team on day to day challenges.

Partner

Zhijing Capital

2012-7 - 2014-9 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Shanghai City, China

AS an investment company: We invest in the angel to pre-A range, typically 200K-500K USD equivalent. We emphasize our expertise on the technical, business operations, and industrial connections. PERSONALLY: I am looking forward to meeting the best people who are excited about building great products for real problems. We may be able to work out something together. Even if not, we can learn something from each other. My angel style is elaborated in blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_70c9335b010135xg.html. Please double check before you reach out for help :)

CEO Advisor

Baixing.com

2012-4 - 2014-9 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Shanghai, China

I spent 6 weeks full-time at Baixing to help on product, technology and team building, and now kinda on call whenever Baixin needs my hlep.

Head of Risk Engineering Team

Facebook

2010-6 - 2011-9 · 1 yr 4 mos

I manage the engineering team that fights against payment fraud around Ads and Facebook Credits. The war was tougher than you might think, in that the line b/t good and bad was blurred.

Senior Software Engineer

Facebook

2007-4 - 2010-6 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Lead engineering effort on payments fraud control Birthday Reminder (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=38780477130) Giftshop Improvent(Search, Ajaxized Browsing) Import Stories into Facebook (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=13245367130) Social Ads

Software Engineer

Yahoo

2005-10 - 2007-4 · 1 yr 7 mos

- Chief Engineer responsible for development and maintenance of an application used for user activity analysis and personalized ads targeting; estimated with $20+ MM business impact * Perl, PHP, C++, Oracle 10g, Javascript - Responsible for key components(business rules, cache, etc) in building recommendation platform - recommending potentially interesting items to users using collaborative filtering based on user profiles & activity histories. * C++, PHP, Perl, MySQL

Education

Stanford University

Management Science & Engineering

2006 - 2011 · 5 yrs

The Ohio State University

Large Scale Data Mining and Industrial Application

2003 - 2005 · 2 yrs

First Author Publication: * Design of a next generation sampling service for large scale data analysis applications. ICS 2005: 91-100 * A Services Oriented Framework for Next Generation Data Analysis Centers. IPDPS 2005