Brent Young
Angel Investor
Mclean, United States
Brent Young is a pre-seed investor in Mclean focused on FinTech and Internet. Brent A. Young is Managing Director of the China Corporate Strategy Office (CCSO) at Intel Corporation, reporting to Intel China’s President Ian Yang. He is responsible for building out the company’s overall strategies as they relate to China. This includes bringing in external perspectives to improve decision making, sensing and responding tolong-range opportunities and threats, aligning local business unit and corporate strategies, defining strategic imperatives across Intel China Staff, and helping ensure strategy turns into tangible action.Brent began his Intel career in 2006 as an open source software Strategic Planner in Intel’s Software and Service Group. Later, he was the Technical Assistant and Chief of Staff to Tom Kilroy, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Sales and Marketing Group. Most recently, he was Managing Director of China Tech Ecosystem (CTE) Sales and China Product Marketing at Intel China. There, he was responsible for defining and driving Intel’s sales, customer, and go-to-market strategies in the CTE and for Intel’s overall product marketing in China. Prior to joining Intel, Brent was a software engineer and technology evangelist in two software startups over five years in Silicon Valley and Cambridge, Mass.He is a Director of Montage Technology (fabless memory semiconductors), an Angel investor in Jatheon Technologies (messaging archival) and Cryptowerk (blockchain), and an Executive-in-Residence at Tsinghua University’s X-Labs incubator and Mentor at Chinaccelerator. He previously trained for triathlons including completing Ironman New Zealand in 2003.Brent graduated from Cornell University with both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and also received his MBA degree specializing in Strategy, Marketing, and Finance from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
- Total investments:
- 2
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- Lead investor:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 1 (50%)
- Internet 1 (50%)
- Software 1 (50%)
- Broadcasting 1 (50%)
- Financial Services 1 (50%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 1 (50%)
- Convertible Note 1 (50%)
Country
- China 1 (50%)
- Ghana 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| PullGain is a marketplace of investment products from banks and investment houses in Africa. We make purchasing investment products easy and accessible through a simple mobile app that can be used on the go.African countries often have devastatingly high rates of inflation, eroding the hard-earned savings of those already struggling to get by.Our mission is to help all Africans preserve and grow their wealth with education about and greater accessibility to financial investments.The founders’ vision is to present an App that delivers information on an investment opportunity in an easy and accessible way to all (“Allowing everyone Gain from the Pool of investment opportunity.”) | $40K / Pre-Seed / Nov 12, 2022 | ||
| Akkadu RSI Technologies enable Translation Agencies and Virtual Platforms to seamlessly provide to their clients:- Remote Simultaneous Interpretation- RSI + AI Speech Recognition- AI Speech TranslationIn Akkadu we firmly believe this world would be a better place if we could understand and learn from each other regardless of the language.Let's change this world together! | $89.5K / Convertible Note / Jan 31, 2019 |
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What does Brent Young invest in?
Brent Young invests primarily in FinTech, Internet and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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