Jerry Yang, CFA

General Partner at HCVC / did NOT co-found Yahoo! In 1995

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Investor & Board Member
Oct 2025
We develop computational imaging techonology for semiconductor inspection and metrology applications.
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Apr 2024
Making CFD 1000x faster
Investor & Advisory Board Member
Oct 2022
Sarcura develops a machine platform for the large scale, industrial manufacturing of personalized cell therapies. Our target is to scale global manufacturing capacity for these life saving, patient specific cancer treatments from thousands of doses per year to hundreds of thousands, cost effective and safe for a all patients. We will transform existing manufacturing paradigms by using semiconductor technology to bring bioprocess control to cellular level. MINIATURIZE. AUTOMATE. INTEGRATE.
mid stageBiotechnology
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2020
At Giraffe360, we’re passionate about showcasing properties at their absolute best. We believe every space has a story – and it deserves to be presented with clarity, depth, and impact. Our technology enables photographers and agents to capture a property once and transform it into a complete, cohesive media experience: photography, video, floor plans, virtual staging, and property websites. Because when a property is showcased properly, buyers don’t just see it – they feel it.
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2020
Qashier (qashier.com) is The Ultimate Business Solution that readies restaurants and retailers for the ever-evolving digital economy. Powering over 6000 SMEs across Southeast Asia and Australia today, Qashier champions business growth with its one true integrated smart Point-of-Sale and payment solution. Available free on Play Store.
Investor & Board Member
Mar 2020
Valispace is a software platform that streamlines engineering data and enables collaboration between engineers and other departments. Our mission is to empower engineers to more efficiently develop complex hardware products that have the potential to transform the world. We serve all stakeholders in hardware engineering departments, including systems engineers and project managers, and offer both cloud-based and on-premises solutions for organizations of all sizes, from startups to enterprises. By using Valispace, teams can view, collaborate on, and iterate on dynamic engineering data in a browser-based platform, streamlining the development process and improving efficiency.
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Oct 2018
The story of robotics is the story of the future of mankind. As the century of automation unfolds rapidly before our eyes, we at Gideon believe that humans and Visual AI-based Mobile Robots working together in harmonious workflows will enable our customers and our economy to adapt, grow, and become more resilient. The coming decade will be marked in history by a proliferation of mobile robots of all shapes and sizes, designed to help companies do more with less. We made it our mission to give those machines the critical abilities to see, reason, interact with the world, and, most importantly, work closely with their human supervisors, empowering humans to excel in workflows that constantly grow in complexity. Humans and robots together will build better days ahead. Gideon is an ambitious team of constantly learning dreamers, with different backgrounds, skills, and experiences. Above all, we cherish curiosity for understanding and solving our customer’s toughest mobile automation challenges. We are fast to deliver, have a team-first mindset, and we’re humbled for having the opportunity to work with so many great employees, customers, and partners.
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Apr 2018
Radian Aerospace (Radian) is disrupting the aerospace industry with a next generation aerospace vehicle that is the world’s first fully reusable horizontal takeoff and landing, single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane, delivering people and cargo to low Earth orbit (LEO) and multiple terrestrial destinations with aircraft-like operations.
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Feb 2018
Automata was founded with a clear aim: to unlock human potential with automation. Through our collaboration with some of the world’s leading pathology labs, we’ve developed the most comprehensive lab automation platform on the market. By simplifying environments and empowering people, Automata enables labs to scale with precision and creates new opportunities for scientists to accelerate innovation.
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2025
Investor & Board Member
Oct 2025
We develop computational imaging techonology for semiconductor inspection and metrology applications.
2024
Investor
Apr 2024
Making CFD 1000x faster
2023
2022
Investor & Advisory Board Member
Oct 2022
Sarcura develops a machine platform for the large scale, industrial manufacturing of personalized cell therapies. Our target is to scale global manufacturing capacity for these life saving, patient specific cancer treatments from thousands of doses per year to hundreds of thousands, cost effective and safe for a all patients. We will transform existing manufacturing paradigms by using semiconductor technology to bring bioprocess control to cellular level. MINIATURIZE. AUTOMATE. INTEGRATE.
mid stageBiotechnology
2020
Investor & Board Observer
Sep 2020
At Giraffe360, we’re passionate about showcasing properties at their absolute best. We believe every space has a story – and it deserves to be presented with clarity, depth, and impact. Our technology enables photographers and agents to capture a property once and transform it into a complete, cohesive media experience: photography, video, floor plans, virtual staging, and property websites. Because when a property is showcased properly, buyers don’t just see it – they feel it.
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