# Kerry Wang

> Kerry Wang is a seed investor at Searchlight (San Francisco Bay Area) backing SaaS and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Searchlight](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/searchlight-057a)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerryxwang/

Kerry Wang is a seed investor at Searchlight in San Francisco Bay Area focused on SaaS and Software. Kerry Wang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Searchlight. She was a Course Assistant for From Play to Innovation at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford ( d.school ). Kerry received a Hastorf Award for Outstanding Service in Human Biology and The Leader Award. Ms. Wang holds a master's degree in computer science and a bachelor'sdegree with distinction in Human Biology - Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Human Behavior at Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.8M–$11M |
| Series A | $15M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |
| Health Care | 1 | 17% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 67% |
| Colombia | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Generation Lab | Generation Lab seeks to improve human health by developing the first test that assesses a person's biological age progression and risk of disease based on biological evidence that is clinically applicable. This will enable everyone to live longer, healthier lives. | $11M | Seed | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| Hamming AI | Hamming AI is an experimentation platform that helps teams build reliable AI products. | $3.8M | Seed | Dec 18, 2024 |  |
| Salsa | Salsa is building a payroll API that can be embedded into software platforms. Its platform is designed to suit the needs of today's workforce and includes a payroll service. The company's platform provides a modern payroll Application Programming Interface, supports a wide range of payroll use cases without overloading frontend code withbusiness logic, and allows businesses to easily embed payroll workflows into the platform, allowing them to build a payroll solution that suits their customers, where employees are paid and compliance is handled. | $10M | Seed | May 10, 2023 |  |
| Berry | Berry is a Chrome extension that enables teams to co-browse and collaborate on any website in real time. Multiple users can browse the web interactively together and highlight details with a real-time cursor. As you cycle through multiple web apps to complete multi-step workflows, teammates can easily follow along. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Truora | Truora provides identity verification and fraud prevention tools that help businesses validate users and reduce risk in digital interactions. Its platform offers services such as background checks, identity authentication, and phone number verification to support secure onboarding and transactions. | $15M | Series A | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| Truora | Truora provides identity verification and fraud prevention tools that help businesses validate users and reduce risk in digital interactions. Its platform offers services such as background checks, identity authentication, and phone number verification to support secure onboarding and transactions. | $15M | Series A | Apr 04, 2022 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Propel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/propel-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [17Sigma](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/17sigma) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AI Grant](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai-grant) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aoki Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aoki-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Searchlight

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

​​Searchlight's Predictive Talent Platform provides assessments and analytics help companies improve hiring efficiency and effectiveness. Searchlight’s powerful People Science Engine measures and improves Quality of Hire by connecting candidate reference and self-assessment data to post-hire outcomes. Searchlight’s connected talentintelligence system pulls employee outcome data – such as enablement, performance, belonging– back into the recruiting process to surface predictive signals like competencies and soft skills. These real-time insights enable organizations to continuously learn as they hire and retain the right people. Searchlight is on a people-first mission to make hiring a win-win for everyone by understanding talent better.

3 contacts available at Searchlight.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anna X. Wang | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-x-wang |
| Kerry Wang | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kerry-wang |
| Robert Gordon IV | Head of Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-gordon-iv |

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## FAQ

### What does Kerry Wang invest in?

Kerry Wang invests primarily in SaaS, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kerry Wang's check size?

Kerry Wang typically joins rounds of $3.8M–$11M at Seed and $15M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kerry Wang participates in.

### When did Kerry Wang last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kerry Wang closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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