Ling Wong
Angel Investor @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
Seattle, United States
Ling Wong is a seed investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners in Seattle focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Dr. Ling Wong is Founder and General Partner of Highbury Group and Sea Lane Ventures. She also serves as Senior Advisor to Lightspeed Venture Partners. Highbury Group was founded on the principle to be a true partner and champion to entrepreneurs, using science and technology to build companies that fundamentally transform the world for thebetterment of humanity today, and in the future.Dr. Wong draws from her unique background and experience as a scientist, entrepreneur, and investor to support and bring to market companies that exist at the intersection between health and technology. “I love to partner with mission-oriented founders working on transformational ideas that can have a positive, lasting impact on society – and do so by leveraging technology and science in a financially sustainable manner,” said Dr. Wong.Prior to Highbury, she served at the Gates Foundation where she helped to establish a $1.5B global investment portfolio and created a $200M early stage program to support early stage entrepreneurs in more than 60 countries.As a health and technology investor, Dr. Wong has been involved in some of the market’s most significant investments and exits. She has partnered with over fifteen $1B+ companies, including: Devoted Health, Orca Bio, Collective Health, Color, Apeel, Shape, Stripe, Offer Up, Rappi, Branch Metrics, Notion, Modern Animal, Wheel and Satellite Bio. Notable exits include: Anacor Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer for $5.2B), Genocea Biosciences (NASDAQ: GNCA), Visterra (acquired for $430M), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), and recently Singular Genomics (NASDAQ: OMIC).Dr. Wong holds a PhD from Harvard in Engineering Sciences, a BSc in Chemical Engineering and BSc in Biology from MIT. During her time at Harvard, she created the world’s first inhaled TB vaccine. Her scientific training has shaped how she assesses financial opportunities, both to create value and to benefit human health. Dr. Wong has always been passionate about seeking entrepreneurs and partners that are looking to disrupt the status quo in science and technology for the betterment of society.
- Total investments:
- 44
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
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Industries Ling Wong invests in
Stages Ling Wong invests in
Countries Ling Wong invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $4.4M–$19M
- Series A
- $8.1M–$36M
- Series C
- $50M–$450M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 13 (30%)
- Biotechnology 12 (27%)
- Medical 9 (20%)
- Apps 3 (7%)
- Software 3 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (23%)
- Series A 9 (20%)
- Series C 7 (16%)
- Series B 6 (14%)
- Series D 2 (5%)
Country
- United States 26 (59%)
- Colombia 1 (2%)
Investments
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| Satellite Bio specializes in cell therapy, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, cell biology, and tissue engineering. It focuses on the development and implementation of proprietary, off-the-shelf, implantable satellite organs as living therapeutic solutions that can transform the lives of millions of patients who suffer from serious diseases. | Series A / Apr 21, 2022 | ||
| Satellite Bio specializes in cell therapy, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, cell biology, and tissue engineering. It focuses on the development and implementation of proprietary, off-the-shelf, implantable satellite organs as living therapeutic solutions that can transform the lives of millions of patients who suffer from serious diseases. | $82.5M / Mar 07, 2022 | ||
| Satellite Bio specializes in cell therapy, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, cell biology, and tissue engineering. It focuses on the development and implementation of proprietary, off-the-shelf, implantable satellite organs as living therapeutic solutions that can transform the lives of millions of patients who suffer from serious diseases. | $82.5M / Series A / Mar 07, 2022 | ||
| Curve Health is senior care without walls. It is a platform that's reduced patient transfers from Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to Emergency Departments by 50%+, Curve advances connected senior care by bridging the silos that hinder healthcare delivery today; enabling physicians to remotely care for patients in SNFs, at home, in ambulancesor wherever they may be. Curve combines telemedicine, a health information exchange, predictive analytics, and smart billing into a single platform, resulting in higher quality care + significant return on investment while ensuring the most seamless patient experience. | $12M / Series A / Feb 06, 2022 | ||
| Wheel is a healthcare technology company that brings together the tech infrastructure and clinicians to power Virtual Care and Telehealth. | $150M / Series C / Jan 19, 2022 | ||
| Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technologyto enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes. | $1.2B / Series D / Oct 08, 2021 | ||
| Soda Health is a healthcare technology company focused on building solutions that eliminate health inequities and create a healthier America. | $6M / Seed / Aug 19, 2021 | ||
| Shape Therapeutics (ShapeTX) is a biotechnology company with an end-to-end approach to RNA Gene Therapy, potentially enabling the development of cures in neurodegenerative, metabolic and rare genetic diseases through our breakthrough payload, delivery, and manufacturing platform technologies. Our vision is to facilitate adoption of thesetechnologies throughout the industry to develop effective treatments for as many patients as possible. | $112M / Series B / Jul 15, 2021 | ||
| Wheel is a healthcare technology company that brings together the tech infrastructure and clinicians to power Virtual Care and Telehealth. | $50M / Series B / May 19, 2021 | ||
| BIOAGE discovers and develops drugs to treat aging and associated diseases. The company's primary initiative, azelaprag, is an oral APJ agonist on track for Phase 2 trials in conjunction with tirzepatide to potentially become a groundbreaking treatment for obesity in the elderly. | $90M / Series C / Dec 03, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social.
Lightspeed Venture Partners Contacts
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Michael Mignano
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FAQ
What does Ling Wong invest in?
Ling Wong invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 44 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ling Wong invest in?
Ling Wong typically joins rounds of $4.4M–$19M at Seed, $8.1M–$36M at Series A and $50M–$450M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ling Wong's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ling Wong took part in.
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When did Ling Wong last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ling Wong closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 44 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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