# Wally Wang

> Wally Wang is a seed investor at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) backing Software. See 46 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-asia-ventures)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 46
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wallyyingxiaowang
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/wallywang1989?lang=en
- Website: https://x.com/wallywang1989
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wallyyingxiaowang

Wally Wang is a seed investor at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Wally Wang is the Founding Managing Partner of Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture fund SAV(Scale Asia Ventures), focused on Enterprise Software and AI-enabled Vertical Industries. SAV invests in expat-founded enterprise-focused technologies and scales them globally. Fund backers include prominent family offices, and publicly-tradedconglomerates in the U.S. as well as S. Korea, Japan, and Singapore. Selected portfolios include CloudVector(acq. by NASDAQ: IMPV), Array, Subtle Medical, Weaviate, Portside, CAST AI, Pangea Cyber and Great Expectations.Before SAV, Wally led Asian conglomerate Fosun(AUM $100B) and an Asian family office(AUM $10B) in venture investments in the U.S. and served on the boards of portfolios with over $300M in capital deployed. His successful exists include Digital Ocean(NYSE: DOCN), Reposify(acq. by NASDAQ: CRWD).Wally started his career as a PM at Microsoft Bing in Asia. He later built data platforms at Pebble(Y Combinator W11) and Misfit in Silicon Valley, both of which were merged as critical infrastructure into Google’s Wear OS. Wally has spent over a decade in enterprise software and A.I. space as a product and business executive, including Lattice Engines in MarTech(acq. by NYSE: DNB) and DataVisor in FinTech(Sequoia & NEA-backed).Wally studied machine learning in the Ph.D. program at NYU Stern School of Business and was a visiting scholar at CMU School of Computer Science. He is also an advisor of UC Berkeley SkyDeck and SFSU. Wally was a speaker at New York Venture Summit, and Asia PE-VC Summit and was recognized as Global 100 Outstanding Chinese by Forbes in 2022.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$6.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$9M |
| Series A | $4M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 43% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 37% |
| SaaS | 11 | 24% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 20% |
| Developer Tools | 7 | 15% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 22% |
| Series A | 6 | 13% |
| Series B | 6 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 9% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 70% |
| Canada | 2 | 4% |
| Poland | 1 | 2% |
| South Korea | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mastra | Mastra is an AI software that helps users to typescript complex operations and complete set of work using AI. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Promptless | Promptless is an AI-driven collaborator that seamlessly updates documents intended for customer engagement. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Cuckoo | Cuckoo is an always-available, in-house realtime translator. Cuckoo instantly learns the technical details of your conversation from your keywords and documents and interprets into over 20 languages—customized for your specific industry and organization. Global teams like Snowflake, PagerDuty, Weights & Biases, dbt Labs, and SeAH rely onCuckoo for multilingual meetings, events, business trips, and more. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jan 06, 2025 |  |
| Raycaster | Next-gen account intelligence for enterprise sales | $500K | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2024 |  |
| Ryvn | Ryvn helps companies deploy, monitor, and manage applications in customer clouds. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| Souline | Souline is transforming our interaction with the world by infusing intelligence into everyday products. Founded by the visionaries behind Google Assistant and Lingxin Intelligence (acquired by Zhipu AI), we aim to turn the physical world into AI-native experiences that enrich lives. By blending edge computing with AI, we create magical, intuitiveinteractions—all while keeping privacy and safety at the forefront. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| Unbound Security | Unbound enables employees to securely utilize AI tools in their work while safeguarding company secrets. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Benchify | Benchify is a software development firm offering review tool for the code that can help find bugs through testing. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Cerulion | Cerulion is a Robotics Engineering firm that manufactures and provide operating system for robots. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Solve Intelligence | We use AI to help you write high-quality patents quickly. We do this by providing a simple in-browser document editor that any patent attorney or inventor can start using straight away.Our product can help with all stages of the patent life cycle, from drafting and filing to prosecution and opposition.If you are an an inventor, a patentattorney, or even just an enthusiast interested in the intersection of AI and intellectual property, we would love to hear from you: https://www.solveintelligence.com/contact | $3M | Seed | Nov 28, 2023 |  |

10 of 46 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Uncorrelated Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uncorrelated-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

SAV(Scale Asia Ventures) is a Palo Alto-based multi-stage venture fund focused on Enterprise Software, Data-driven Life Sciences, and AI-powered Vertical Industries. Fund backers include institutional funds, prominent family offices, and publicly-traded conglomerates in the U.S as well as S. Korea, Japan, and Singapore. SAV is committed toproviding its portfolios with strong U.S. and Asia market expertise and a unique global network of strategic corporate partners.

2 contacts available at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures).

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wally Wang | Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wally-wang-6ec8 |
| Wally Wang | Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wally-wang |

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## FAQ

### What does Wally Wang invest in?

Wally Wang invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 46 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 Wally Wang's check size?

Wally Wang typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$6.5M at Seed, $500k–$9M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$20M 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 Wally Wang participates in.

### When did Wally Wang last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Wally Wang closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 46 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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