# Rong Cao

> Rong Cao is a seed investor at WestWave Capital backing Marketing. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [WestWave Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westwave-capital)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rongcao1/

Rong Cao is a seed investor at WestWave Capital focused on Marketing and Personalization. Rong is Partner at WestWave Capital. She was formerly the VP of Engineering at Auth0 (acq OKTA $6.5B) and SVP of Technology at Socure (scaled from Series C to Series E). Having founded her own privacy startup before her time at Auth0, Rong has the empathy to support founders at the early stages of their companies as well as the expertise to helpthem scale to multi-billion dollar businesses.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketing | 1 | 100% |
| Personalization | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Proof | Jarvis helps marketing teams write great copy and content using AI. | $2.1M | Seed | Mar 01, 2018 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aafmanagement) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AAF Management Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arabangel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [G Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/g-ventures-4ad3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hack VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Iona Capital Advisors — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About WestWave Capital

VC Fund · Redwood City, United States

WestWave Capital is an early-stage Venture Capital firm that invests in Seed and Series A Enterprise companies building deep technology solutions. They focus on SaaS, security, cloud infrastructure, blockchain, analytics, and IoT companies.

5 contacts available at WestWave Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaurav Manglik | Partner | — |
| Rong Cao | Partner | — |
| Gail Haney | CFO | — |
| Rohan Puranik | Partner | — |
| Warren Weiss | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/warren-weiss |

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## FAQ

### What does Rong Cao invest in?

Rong Cao invests primarily in Marketing and Personalization startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Rong Cao?

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### When did Rong Cao last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rong Cao closed in Mar 2018. Shizune tracks 1 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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