Richard Jhang
Associate @ Creative Destruction Lab
Palo Alto, United States
Richard Jhang is a seed investor at Creative Destruction Lab in Palo Alto focused on FinTech and Artificial Intelligence. Richard Jhang is the Founder and CEO of StratMinds, a San Francisco-based venture capital and advisory firm.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Richard Jhang invests in
Stages Richard Jhang invests in
Countries Richard Jhang invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (20%)
- Financial Services 5 (17%)
- Software 4 (13%)
- Information Technology 4 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (47%)
- Series A 6 (20%)
- Convertible Note 1 (3%)
- Secondary Market 1 (3%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 13 (43%)
- Spain 2 (7%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
- Ukraine 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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ControlRooms.ai
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Controlrooms.ai develops a monitor system designed for industrial mission control rooms. It provides immediate time to benefit and exhibit intuitive functionality to help advance the quality of life on Earth, enabling companies by providing earth's monitoring services. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $10M / Series A / Aug 29, 2023 | |
Hyperspec-ai
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Only 3% of US roadways are covered by the high-definition master maps that today's self-driving cars require to navigate. Without a hard tether to these maps, or beyond their bounds, autonomous vehicles simply cannot operate. Worse, the coverage of these maps is expanding at a rate of only 2% every 5 years.At Hyperspec AI we are expandingnavigable roadways for autonomous vehicles to 95%, today, by equipping each car with our onboard vision hardware that localizes and navigates with true autonomy. Our high-frequency periodic calibration corrects for drift using satellite imagery to achieve continuous precise real-time positioning at a fraction of the cost.Hyperspec AI is my third company and the second to focus on mapping and localization for autonomous vehicles. I am a serial entrepreneur with successful exits and the deep domain expertise required to lead this new generation of navigation technology. Today, my team includes top talent in computer vision, simulation, and high-performance edge computing.With $860K raised and $750K in revenue booked to date with a $1.2M backlog, we have traction and momentum. Our focus is on partnership opportunities that accelerate our time-to-market to meet the immediate industry demand. | $450K / Seed / Apr 21, 2023 | |
Fuelfinance
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We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $999/month. | $1M / Seed / Aug 22, 2022 | |
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Fuelfinance
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We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $999/month. | Seed / Jul 13, 2022 | |
Rand Network
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Rand Network is an app that provides money back or cash prizes from the gaming platform. With the Rand card, they can spend and automate recurring payments. Send money to friends and transfer funds to other accounts for free and easily. Rand App has assembled a team of professionals from around the world with a common goal: to create better bankingfor future generations. | Series A / Jun 22, 2022 | |
Viable
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Viable develops a qualitative AI designed for business teams. Its platform automates the qualitative analysis of customer feedback. With Feedback Analysis Reports, customer feedback is analyzed and distilled into top complaints, compliments, requests, questions, and more via natural language reports. | Seed / Apr 26, 2022 | |
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Rand Network
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Rand Network is an app that provides money back or cash prizes from the gaming platform. With the Rand card, they can spend and automate recurring payments. Send money to friends and transfer funds to other accounts for free and easily. Rand App has assembled a team of professionals from around the world with a common goal: to create better bankingfor future generations. | $2M / Seed / Feb 11, 2022 | |
GritWell
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GritWell is redesigning chronic care, shifting focus from symptom management to root cause treatment. We help those struggling with chronic symptoms (i.e. insomnia, migraines, digestive issues, anxiety, and joint pain) or diagnosed conditions with a more holistic, root cause approach. Utilizing clinically validated symptom assessments topersonalize care for patients, we recommend them to the right level of care that targets their entire set of symptoms. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 03, 2022 | |
OWL Autonomous Imaging
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Owl Autonomous Imaging delivers Monocular 3D Thermal Ranging™ solutions to industrial and automotive mobility markets to dramatically enhance safety day or night and in all weather conditions. Thermal Ranging™ is a new 3D modality that uses optical fusion and novel deep learning techniques to extract dense range maps from radiated heat signatures,without requiring illumination.Owl was co-founded by Chuck Gershman. Mr. Gershman has 30 years of semiconductor industry experience in executive management, marketing, engineering, business development, sales, consulting and executive advising. A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Gershman has been a member of the executive team of five startups, three of which as CEO/COO. He has had successful exits with acquisitions by Intel and PMC-Sierra. Further company information can be found at www.owlai.us | $15M / Series A / Jan 25, 2022 | |
Bnext
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Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain.Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own currentaccount in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance. | Series A / Jan 06, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Creative Destruction Lab
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity organization that delivers an objectives-based mentoring program for massively scalable, pre-seed stage, science- and technology-based companies. Its nine-month program allows founders to learn from experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their likelihood of success. Founded in 2012 byProfessor Ajay Agrawal at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded to thirteen sites across seven countries: Seattle, Oxford, Paris, Atlanta, Estonia, Wisconsin, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Berlin, Melbourne and Halifax.
Creative Destruction Lab Contacts
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Anthony K. Tjan
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Daniel Mulet Lind
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Dennis Bennie
Founding Partner and Associate
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Dennis Kavelman
Founding Partner and Associate
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Frank Sobey
Founding Partner
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What does Richard Jhang invest in?
Richard Jhang invests primarily in FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 30 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 Richard Jhang closed in Aug 2023. Shizune tracks 30 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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