Chon Tang
Angel Investor @ SkyDeck Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
Chon Tang is a pre-seed investor at SkyDeck Berkeley in Berkeley focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Chon Tang is the Founding Partner and Advisor of Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. He is also the Founder/Chairman at Catchpod / Kaiqiaole Document Management - China. Mr. Tang is a former VP of Engineering at TERN and Co-Founder of Ichnop.
- Total investments:
- 60
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Chon Tang invests in
Stages Chon Tang invests in
Countries Chon Tang invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 19 (32%)
- Software 16 (27%)
- Biotechnology 9 (15%)
- SaaS 8 (13%)
- Health Care 8 (13%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 39 (65%)
- Seed 16 (27%)
- Angel 2 (3%)
- Grant 1 (2%)
- Series A 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 45 (75%)
- France 2 (3%)
- Chile 1 (2%)
- Italy 1 (2%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Manifest is an open-source platform that allows users to optimize costs of their personal AI agents. It intercepts requests and routes them to the most adapted model. The platform supports over 300 AI models, runs entirely locally with no message or prompt collection. It provides cost analytics, budget alerts, usage limits and cost optimizationtools. | $200K / Pre-Seed / Oct 30, 2025 | ||
| Scam AI is a platform that provides real-time detection of AI-generated content, including deepfakes, voice clones, and synthetic images. It offers an API-based solution that integrates into applications to analyze media files for authenticity. The system employs machine learning models trained on extensive datasets to identify digital patterns andartifacts characteristic of AI-generated media. The platform supports various image formats, such as JPEG and PNG, and is optimized for photographs and realistic renderings. It delivers analysis results with an average response time of under six seconds for standard images. It also provides client libraries for multiple programming languages, facilitating integration into existing systems. | $200K / Pre-Seed / May 05, 2025 | ||
| Clearpol is an operating system for regulatory compliance and risk management for the healthcare industry. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $3.3M / Seed / Jun 08, 2024 | ||
| El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services. | $3M / Seed / May 28, 2024 | ||
| SEMRON develops a 3D-scaled AI inference chip, based on a new proven semiconductor device. It creates ai chips with the smallest footprint without compromising on raw computing power. It was founded in 2020 by Aron Kirschen and Kai-Uwe Demasius. | $7.9M / Seed / Jan 30, 2024 | ||
| BennuData is a DR Orchestration platform that includes automated cloud discovery, AI-powered BCDR plan creation, and continuous recovery testing and plan updates. We are building a SaaS product that ensures predictable disaster recovery time for mid-sized and enterprise customers. | $400K / Angel / Oct 01, 2023 | ||
| Socialtrait is a developer of AI-powered solutions for predicting, measuring, and amplifying the performance of brand concepts. | $3M / Seed / Jul 15, 2023 | ||
| Connecting the world’s logistics to ease cross-border ecommerce | $100K / Pre-Seed / May 31, 2023 | ||
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AsparaGlue
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AsparaGlue develops a superglue-like medical adhesive that can be uniquely for external wound closure and internal tissue adhesion. | $100K / Pre-Seed / May 02, 2023 | |
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EditPep
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Editpep is a biotechnology business. It creates a class of peptides capable of delivering CRISPR enzymes into previously untranslatable clinically relevant cell types. | Grant / May 02, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About SkyDeck Berkeley
Each of the 20 companies accepted into the SkyDeck full cohort will receive investment of $200,000 from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Each of the 10 startups accepted into SkyDeck Europe will receive investment of €145,000 from our dedicated European Fund.Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berkeley’s global startup accelerator. Named in Forbes as a top fiveU.S. university accelerator, SkyDeck combines hands-on mentorship with the vast resources of its research university.Participating startups have access to SkyDeck’s 480 advisors, 50 industry partners, and a network of more than 510,000 UC Berkeley alumni.
SkyDeck Berkeley Contacts
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Paul Chen
Authorpreneur, Muse and Startup Advisor
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Sandeep Shroff
Advisor
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Caroline Winnett
Executive Director
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Clay Collier
Mentor SkyDeck Incubator
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Don Loeb
Mentor
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What does Chon Tang invest in?
Chon Tang invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Biotechnology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 60 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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The most recent investment recorded for Chon Tang closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 60 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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