Angela Bao

Advisor to founders building consumer AI products across learning, wellness & healthspan | US-China ecosystems

📍 San Jose, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Jul 2025
Pathfinder helps parents build their dream education experience for their kids.
Investor
2017
AmpUp makes EV charging simple, reliable, and ready wherever your people park. Our platform connects workplaces, communities, fleets, and public sites with charging that’s easy to manage and built to perform. Real-time controls, flexible access options, and 24/7 support come standard. For installers, AmpUp is easy to activate and even easier to oversee—no call centers, no delays. No matter where you’re starting, AmpUp fits right in. Compatible with 15+ trusted hardware brands, our platform makes it easy to launch at one site, or scale across many. ✓ 98.5% session success rate, 99.9% uptime. ✓ Easy activation, remote fixes, and full access control. ✓ Public, private, or paid charging options. ✓ Approved across 50+ utility incentive programs. ✓ We’re hiring! https://ampup.breezy.hr/
Board Observer
2016
Based in Berkeley, California, WriteLab is an online writing tool offering immediate, objective, and constructive responses to any writer's prose. Drawing on the latest developments in machine learning and natural language processing, our tool blends data-driven analysis with proven pedagogical principles to address specific features of thinking in writing, such as clarity, cohesion, logic, and concision. 100 million American students and professionals lack skills and confidence in their writing. Under the pressures of deadlines, these writers often find themselves struggling to write clearly and effectively. WriteLab addresses these issues by offering immediate editorial assistance at any time. Through practice, every user of WriteLab can master the techniques of confident and successful prose and appreciate writing as a tool for effective communication. WriteLab is developing a technology, the first instance of which is in education. WriteLab utilizes probability and statistics to identify patterns in each writer's choices. Writers can accept or reject suggestions, and WriteLab learns continuously from these choices, customizing its algorithms to suit users'​ preferences. Users receive customized feedback, generating powerful analytics. Student users can share drafts with instructors on WriteLab, and instructors can read and respond to students'​ writing and leave comments of their own. Instructors need not spend time clearing up students’ prose and can, instead, focus on helping students develop intellectually in more substantive ways beyond grammar and mechanics and to reach their full potential as writers.
Board Observer
2016
ClassWallet is the leading digital wallet for public funds. A pioneer in financial and government technology, ClassWallets technology is used by public agencies across 35 states to maximize the positive impact of public funding on people’s lives. Since 2014, the ClassWallet platform has been used to deliver more than $4 billion in public funds to millions of citizens, and has helped clients achieve the highest standards of program integrity and efficiency.
Experience · 7 entries
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Investments (4)
Board (2)
2025
Investor
Jul 2025
Pathfinder helps parents build their dream education experience for their kids.
2023
Reach Roadrunner
Aug 2023
Reach Capital invests in founders who elevate human potential and ignite purpose across learning, health, and work. We partner with visionaries to grow bold ideas into world-changing companies that empower everyone to thrive and live their best lives.
2017
Investor
2017
AmpUp makes EV charging simple, reliable, and ready wherever your people park. Our platform connects workplaces, communities, fleets, and public sites with charging that’s easy to manage and built to perform. Real-time controls, flexible access options, and 24/7 support come standard. For installers, AmpUp is easy to activate and even easier to oversee—no call centers, no delays. No matter where you’re starting, AmpUp fits right in. Compatible with 15+ trusted hardware brands, our platform makes it easy to launch at one site, or scale across many. ✓ 98.5% session success rate, 99.9% uptime. ✓ Easy activation, remote fixes, and full access control. ✓ Public, private, or paid charging options. ✓ Approved across 50+ utility incentive programs. ✓ We’re hiring! https://ampup.breezy.hr/
2016
Board Observer
2016
Based in Berkeley, California, WriteLab is an online writing tool offering immediate, objective, and constructive responses to any writer's prose. Drawing on the latest developments in machine learning and natural language processing, our tool blends data-driven analysis with proven pedagogical principles to address specific features of thinking in writing, such as clarity, cohesion, logic, and concision. 100 million American students and professionals lack skills and confidence in their writing. Under the pressures of deadlines, these writers often find themselves struggling to write clearly and effectively. WriteLab addresses these issues by offering immediate editorial assistance at any time. Through practice, every user of WriteLab can master the techniques of confident and successful prose and appreciate writing as a tool for effective communication. WriteLab is developing a technology, the first instance of which is in education. WriteLab utilizes probability and statistics to identify patterns in each writer's choices. Writers can accept or reject suggestions, and WriteLab learns continuously from these choices, customizing its algorithms to suit users'​ preferences. Users receive customized feedback, generating powerful analytics. Student users can share drafts with instructors on WriteLab, and instructors can read and respond to students'​ writing and leave comments of their own. Instructors need not spend time clearing up students’ prose and can, instead, focus on helping students develop intellectually in more substantive ways beyond grammar and mechanics and to reach their full potential as writers.
Board Observer
2016
ClassWallet is the leading digital wallet for public funds. A pioneer in financial and government technology, ClassWallets technology is used by public agencies across 35 states to maximize the positive impact of public funding on people’s lives. Since 2014, the ClassWallet platform has been used to deliver more than $4 billion in public funds to millions of citizens, and has helped clients achieve the highest standards of program integrity and efficiency.
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