Charles Huang
VP and Chief Finance @ Blackstone
Greater Los Angeles Area, United States
Charles Huang is a Vice President and the Chief Finance and Financial Analysis Officer of Equity Healthcare, within Blackstone’s Private Equity Operations Group.Prior to joining Blackstone in 2012, Mr. Huang worked in venture capital, focusing on health technology investing and actively supporting healthcare portfolio companies of SparkCapital.Prior to Spark Capital, while completing a dual Master’s degree program in Business and Public Administration, he helped contribute to the growth of a number of VC/PE-backed healthcare companies in the areas of strategy, operations, and clinical informatics/reporting, including Generation Health and Accelecare Wound Centers.Before graduate school, Charles was a Manager in the Strategic Financial Planning Group at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and had also worked previously in the health consulting practice at Towers Perrin. Mr. Huang has co-authored several Harvard Business School cases and notes on healthcare innovation, payment, and policy. He's an advisor, investor, and collaborator with Blueprint Health, Startup Health, TEDMED and Luminary Labs - organizations that focus on health and wellness innovation and disruption. He's a board advisor and angel investor in health technology start-ups such as Artemis Health, Heal, and CredSimple. In addition to his M.B.A. and M.P.A. from Harvard, Mr. Huang holds a B.A. in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. He has often served as a judge, speaker, and curator at many health innovation conferences and challenges, such as Health 2.0, TEDMED, Health Evolution Partners Summit, Harvard Business School Healthcare Conference and the Verizon Powerful Answers Challenge.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Charles Huang invests in
Stages Charles Huang invests in
Countries Charles Huang invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Music 2 (50%)
- Gaming 1 (25%)
- Mobile 1 (25%)
- Android 1 (25%)
- Fitness 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (75%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Greatist
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Greatist is the next-generation media company in health for healthy-minded millenials. With an emphasis on super high-quality fitness, health, and happiness content (every fact cited by a scientific study, every article approved by multiple experts) over quantity, Greatist engages an educated, social, and mobile audience through its uniquelyfriendly, fun, and shareable voice. Launched in 2011, it's now the fastest-growing site in the health space, reaching over 5 million readers every month with its mission to help the world think of health in a healthier way. | $3.5M / Seed / Mar 30, 2015 | |
Incident Technologies
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Incident Technologies is a software solution provider that develops music applications for iPhones. It offers gTar, a digital guitar that enables users to play music with the help of LEDs and a docked iPhone. It serves customers in the United States and internationally. Additionally, the platform allows the user to create and share their musicalexperiences.Incident Technologies was founded in 2009 by Idan Beck and is based in Santa Clara, California. | $745K / Seed / Nov 01, 2011 | |
NoiseToys
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NoiseToys is building mobile applications around content discovery.NoiseToys is currently working on Apptitude, a friends-based app discovery service that lets you see which iPhone apps your friends have. It's available at http://www.apptitu.dePreviously, NoiseToys released Hitmaker, a game around music promotion, atTechCrunch Disrupt. Hitmaker reached #9 overall in the App Store in October 2010 and currently has over 150,000 users. | $1.2M / Seed / May 03, 2011 | |
Kiwi
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Kiwi is a mobile entertainment company dedicated to building delightful games with a focus on Android. Founded in August 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto, the 160+ person company is one of the few mobile developers with multiple Top 100 Grossing applications on Google Play. Kiwi has raised a total of $9 million in funding and is backed bySequoia Capital, AdMob founder Omar Hamoui, Guitar Hero co-creator Charles Huang, and SV Angels. | $6M / Series A |
Co-Investors
About Blackstone
Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that invests in private equity, real estate, public debt, equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets, and secondary funds.
Blackstone Contacts
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Alan Miyasaki
Senior Managing Director & Head of Asia Acquisitions
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Bennett J. Goodman
Board of Director
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Brian Dunlap
Managing Director
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Charles Huang
VP and Chief Finance
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David Blitzer
Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Tactical Opportunities
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Charles Huang invests primarily in Music, Gaming and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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