The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Chon Tang, founding partner, Berkeley Skydeck Fund
Chon Tang, founding partner of the $24m Berkeley Skydeck Fund, is helping the University of California Berkeley’s renowned accelerator put its money where its mouth is.
The fund, which made its debut at the beginning of this year and which has commitments from venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Mayfair Venture Capital, has pledged investment of $100,000 to each of the startups accepted for the six-month Berkley Skydeck program.
Across two intakes to date, the fund has 40 portfolio companies, and in September it announced it was broadening its horizons by allowing businesses set up on any University of California campus to apply for the spring 2019 cohort.
Tang is a Silicon Valley engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He has 12 years of experience as an investor in the area, and was formerly founding partner of Junzi Capital Engineering, a hedge fund focusing on commodity startups.
