Wayne Chang

Wayne Chang

Co-CEO

About

Role

Co-founder

Type

Full-time operator, Angel

Bio

Wayne Chang is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. His latest company, Crashlytics, was acquired by Twitter in its largest acquisition at the time. He has been involved in other notable startups such as Dropbox, Napster, and others, now valued at over $10 billion.

He is also a limited partner in several prominent funds. As part of his passion for helping the next generation of entrepreneurs, he regularly speaks and lectures at universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Cornell, and also serves as a mentor for TechStars, Extreme Startups and MassChallenge.

He was named 40 under 40 by Boston Business Journal and also awarded an honorary PhD by his alma mater, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

About Investments

Wayne invests in all industries, with Jeff Seibert, his co-founder. They don't take cold outreach as they need trusted signal since they don’t do diligence. They make investment decisions after the first call (~30 mins). They often invest in:

Investments

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed

Check Range

$25K-$50K

Geography

Global

Leads Rounds

No

Industries

Investment Highlights

Dropbox, Opendoor, SoFi, Twitter

Get in touch

How they work

Wayne invests with Jeff Seibert, his co-founder at Digits. They don't take cold outreach as they need trusted signal since they don’t do diligence. They make investment decisions after the first call (~30 mins).

Contact Links

Please review this investor’s areas of interest, check size, and geographic constraints before making contact: you will have a much higher chance of success if your outreach is targeted.

Disclaimers and footnotes

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