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Chuck Ng

President at Asia Society Northern California YLG

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 19 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2023
VC🌍 United States
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Co-Founder & Board Member
Jan 2022
The World Leading Scientists Institute (WLSI) unites leading scientists including Nobel Prize and Turing Award laureates to create a community for mentorship, research, education, and incubation focused on young scientists.
Investor
2022
Mammoth Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on leveraging its proprietary ultracompact CRISPR systems to develop long-term curative therapies, as well as other applications such as decentralized precision diagnostics. Founded by CRISPR pioneer and Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna and Trevor Martin, Janice Chen, and Lucas Harrington, the company’s ultracompact proteins are designed to enable in vivo gene editing in difficult to reach tissues utilizing both nuclease applications and new editing modalities beyond double stranded breaks, including base editing, gene writing, and epigenetic editing. The company is building out its pipeline of potential in vivo gene editing therapeutics and capabilities and has partnerships with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to broaden the reach of its innovative and proprietary technology. Mammoth’s deep science and industry experience, along with a robust and differentiated intellectual property portfolio, have enabled the company to further its mission to transform the lives of patients and deliver on the full promise of CRISPR technologies.
Investor
Jan 2021
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
Investor
2021
Polyhedras vision is to unlock exponential improvements to computational power and cross-platform interoperability through the use of zero-knowledge (ZK). While zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) are most commonly known for their privacy characteristics, the ability of ZKPs to compress large datasets into small proofs has huge potential to revolutionize computing while driving massive performance improvements in computationally intensive applications like AI and machine learning.
Investor
2017
Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies, powering billions of contracts every year. LOréal, Salesforce, OpenAI and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. Its the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. Ironclad is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Leader in the Forrester Wave, member of the Forbes AI 50, and a Top Company to Bet Your Career On by Business Insider. The company is backed by leading investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com
Investor
Jan 2016
GrowingIO 是国内领先的一站式数字化增长整体方案服务商。为产品、运营、市场、数据团队及管理者提供客户数据平台(CDP)、广告分析、产品分析、智能运营等产品和咨询服务,帮助企业在数字化转型的路上,提升数据驱动能力,实现更好的增长。
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Jan 2016
Bringing Family-Sized Value Right to Your Doorstep. Bigger sizes mean bigger savings, with or without membership fees. Get the essentials your family needs delivered in bulk by Boxed. Don't run out. Trust in Boxed to be there for you. Culture: NBC Nightly News called our CEO, Chieh Huang, “America’s Dream Boss” for the benefits he extends to employees. Our generous company benefits have been featured on GMA, Today, CNN, The Huffington Post, and more. As digital natives, Boxed brings the best of technology to you via the web or mobile app; and uses advanced machine learning to continually improve the end-to-end customer experience Boxed was named one of the best places to work by Crain’s New York Business in 2016. Boxed is headquartered in SoHo and has three fulfillment centers around the country: in New Jersey, Nevada, and Texas, which allow orders to be delivered within two days. We also have a small office in San Mateo, California. Tech: Our state-of-the-art fulfillment centers make headlines, just like our Autonomously Driving Vehicles (named after members of the Wu-Tang Clan) and robotics. The bigger news? We automated our main fulfillment center without cutting human jobs because we believe that technology should improve the human experience – and that includes the experience of the amazing team we’re building at Boxed. Press: Boxed has been featured on Business Insider, CNN, Huffington Post, Fortune, CNBC, Fox Business, Forbes, Fast Company, TechCrunch, CNet, Quartz, New York Post, VentureBeat, Entrepreneur and Nightly Business Report.
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Sep 2015
Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, RocketSpace is a global ecosystem of people and ideas that provide the necessary velocity - both speed and direction - to help the world’s top innovators bring the future to market. By uniting the highest quality corporate innovators, startups and investors across a holistic platform, RocketSpace fuels collective growth for the entire innovation ecosystem. For more information, visit www.rocketspace.com.
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Jul 2015
Relay Robotics, Inc. is a leading supplier of simple, sophisticated, autonomous service robots that work with humans safely, securely, reliably, and contact-free. Relay Robotics and its affiliates have been technology leaders in robotics since 2013 and hold 10 U.S. patents. Relay’s robots supplement staff across hospitality, healthcare, and commercial real estate settings. They have completed more than 1,000,000 deliveries worldwide. Relay delivery robots are currently deployed at major hotels in the United States such as Marriott, Hilton, Westin, Mandarin Oriental, Holiday Inn, and Radisson, nationally recognized hospitals such as Georgetown and Dartmouth, and commercial real estate properties. Relay robots are available via a monthly subscription or RaaS (Robots as a Service). Relay’s Rapid-Install™ trains and activates a robot within hours of arrival at a location. Customers can name their robot and create a customized “wrap” to give it a unique character and harmonize it with their brand.
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Jul 2015
Tea is the most popular beverage in the world after water. More than 3 billion people enjoy a cup every day, and yet most are unaware that they're missing out on tea’s true depth of flavor, aroma, and experience. We’ve accepted what our tea bags and hot water produce without realizing that, like so many other craft foods, tea offers an abundance of variety in flavor and richness. At Teforia, we celebrate tea, its flavors, and rituals. From estate to cup, Teforia delivers the tea ritual for the modern age. By using the best in modern science, we have captured the knowledge of the world’s most-renowned tea masters and preprogrammed the Teforia with thousands of their hand-crafted recipes. The Teforia understands that tea is an incredibly complex ingredient, with more than 200 major chemical compounds that impart flavor, aroma, and texture to the palate. Teforia's proprietary Selective Infusion Profile System™ (SIPS™) is designed to take the complexity of the tea leaf into consideration. It masterfully accelerates and extracts desired sets of flavor compounds while suppressing the extraction of undesired compounds. The result is the ability to unlock 100 percent of the flavor potential within each tea. Taste is personal, so we have designed the Teforia with a companion app that lets you customize the recipe to suit your unique palate. Any of the four major tasting notes — Savory, Earthy, Fruity, and Floral — can be adjusted, and you can also reduce caffeine levels by 60 percent and increase antioxidant levels by 130 percent. These personal recipes can be saved for future use and shared with your friends. We are an open system so you can use any loose-leaf tea, but we are committed to being your source for exclusive, artisanal teas from growers whose teas are exceptional in quality and taste. Our goal is to make it easy to discover and enjoy the true flavor of tea. Create your own tea ritual with Teforia and experience the perfect cup of tea — every time.
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Jul 2015
All Oculii related news can now be found at @Ambarella Inc . Follow us there so you don’t miss any updates: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ambarella Ambarella, Inc., an edge AI semiconductor and software company, acquired Oculii and its AI radar solutions. The Oculii™ adaptive AI software algorithms enable radar perception using current production radar chips to achieve significantly higher (up to 100X) resolution, longer range and greater accuracy. These improvements eliminate the need for specialized high-resolution radar chips, which have significantly higher power consumption and cost than conventional radar solutions. Ambarella’s Oculii AI radar software can be deployed on Ambarella’s CVflow® AI SoCs, operating in conjunction with leading radar RF solutions to increase safety and reliability. Ambarella also offers integrated Oculii AI radar modules that provide drop-in-ready, full-stack radar sensing solutions.
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Jun 2015
Peerspace is the leading marketplace for hourly venue rentals for meetings, productions, and events. The company opens doors to the most inspiring spaces around the world, from lofts and mansions to storefronts and studios. Peerspace welcomes guests to over 40,000 spaces where they can bring their creative ideas to life, and empowers hosts to earn additional income simply by opening their doors.
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Jun 2015
Thrive Market is a membership e-commerce platform on a mission to make the world’s highest quality natural and organic products affordable for every American family. For $60/year, Thrive members get access to their favorite healthy snacks, supplements, home, beauty, and baby products at 30-50% off retail value—all shipped to their front door for free. As part of our Thrive Gives initiative, each paid membership on the site also sponsors a free membership for those in need. Wholesome products at wholesale prices, were Thrive Market and we cant wait to be connected with you.
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Apr 2015
Bluesmart is a global travel company that became famous for creating the world's first smart connected luggage. Its first product, the Bluesmart Carry-on, launched in October 2014 through Indiegogo and raised more than $2M in pre-orders from more than 10,000 backers in 120 countries worldwide. It was named "Top Innovative Product and Service"​ by Forbes Magazine, awarded "Best Travel Gear"​ by Fast Company and “Best of the Best"​ Red Dot Design Award. The company is backed by Y Combinator and other top Silicon Valley venture investors. Bluesmart is headquartered in New York with offices in Hong Kong, China and Argentina.
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Apr 2015
Notable is a clinical-stage platform therapeutic company developing a new class of precision medicines: predictive precision medicines. Notable aims to be the leader in predictive precision medicine and revolutionize the way in which patients seek and receive treatment: patient population by patient population, and cancer by cancer. By transforming historical standards of care, Notable expects to provide dramatic impact for patients and the healthcare community. Notable’s proprietary Predictive Precision Medicines Platform replicates ex vivo the clinical response of patients to cancer treatments with high fidelity, through its optimized integration of biological assay conditions, dynamic signal analysis, and AI-driven in-silico translation into predictive algorithms. Using its high-fidelity platform, Notable can identify and select clinically responsive patients prior to their treatment and fast-track clinical development in this patient population. Notable has created a targeted, triple de-risked in-licensing strategy and a fast-track clinical development approach that delivers a product’s medical impact and commercial value faster, higher, and more likely than traditional drug development.
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2025
Co-Founder
Aug 2025
The Foundation for Science and AI Research (SAIR) unites the worlds top minds to accelerate scientific discovery while building a deeper scientific foundation for AI. Co-founded by Fields Medalist Terence Tao, alongside Nobel, Turing, and Fields laureates, SAIR represents a new kind of institution: scientist-led, interdisciplinary, and focused on long-term breakthroughs. We work across two core directions: AI for Science — Harnessing AI to accelerate breakthroughs across disciplines. Science for AI — Applying scientific rigor to build the future of intelligence. Through research programs, global collaborations, and flagship events, SAIR brings together leaders from academia, industry, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy to shape the future of intelligence. Grounding intelligence. Scaling discovery.
2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
APAPA is a 501c3 non-profit, non-partisan and grassroots organization founded in 2001, by C.C. and Regina Yin. APAPA was established with the primary mission of empowering Asian Pacific Islander (API) Americans in civic and public affairs through education, active participation, and leadership development. With grassroots support through a growing number of chapter leaders and student interns, APAPA set out to engage voters, partner with the community, and develop API leaders of tomorrow. APAPA also engages the community through cultural events and programs to honor the positive contributions made by the API community. Through appreciation of our history, we embrace diversity as our strength. Together, we are building a better world that is diverse, inclusive, and with representation from all voices and communities.
2022
Co-Founder & Board Member
Jan 2022
The World Leading Scientists Institute (WLSI) unites leading scientists including Nobel Prize and Turing Award laureates to create a community for mentorship, research, education, and incubation focused on young scientists.
Donation Committee
Jan 2022
We’re a new breed of philanthropic VC. Built from the ground up to return capital to Berkeley.
Investor
2022
Mammoth Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on leveraging its proprietary ultracompact CRISPR systems to develop long-term curative therapies, as well as other applications such as decentralized precision diagnostics. Founded by CRISPR pioneer and Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna and Trevor Martin, Janice Chen, and Lucas Harrington, the company’s ultracompact proteins are designed to enable in vivo gene editing in difficult to reach tissues utilizing both nuclease applications and new editing modalities beyond double stranded breaks, including base editing, gene writing, and epigenetic editing. The company is building out its pipeline of potential in vivo gene editing therapeutics and capabilities and has partnerships with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to broaden the reach of its innovative and proprietary technology. Mammoth’s deep science and industry experience, along with a robust and differentiated intellectual property portfolio, have enabled the company to further its mission to transform the lives of patients and deliver on the full promise of CRISPR technologies.
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