# Wally Wang

> Wally Wang is a seed investor at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) backing Artificial Intelligence. See 73 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: 73
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wallyyingxiaowang
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/wallywang1989
- Website: http://nyc-ceo.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wallyyingxiaowang

Wally Wang is a seed investor at SAV (Scale Asia Ventures) in Palo Alto focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. 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 | $500k–$8.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$500k |
| Series A | $17M–$67M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 29 | 40% |
| Software | 28 | 38% |
| SaaS | 16 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 21% |
| Machine Learning | 12 | 16% |

93 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 27 | 37% |
| Pre-Seed | 19 | 26% |
| Series A | 11 | 15% |
| Series B | 6 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 54 | 74% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |
| Poland | 1 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cranston AI | Cranston AI offers an AI-powered platform for accounting and bookkeeping services. |  | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Allus AI | Allus AI builds next-gen vision foundation models that bring real intelligence to manufacturing | $500K | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Fleak | Fleak is a serverless API builder tailored for creating AI data workflows effortlessly. It enables users to quickly develop and deploy API backends with a single click. Leveraging a low-code workflow builder, Fleak simplifies request payload manipulation using SQL, integrates seamlessly with LLM or embedding models, and supports invoking AWS Lambdafunctions. Fleak excels in handling parallelization and concurrency, automatically optimizing performance for high throughput across all nodes. This ensures scalable and reliable API deployment without requiring users to manage multithreading or load balancing. Outputs can be delivered directly via synchronous HTTP responses or forwarded to third-party data storage systems like Snowflake and Pinecone, making Fleak production-ready for enterprise applications. | $6M | Seed | Oct 01, 2025 |  |
| Zalos | Zalos creates AI tools that automate finance tasks, handle invoices, manage payments, and integrate with accounting systems. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 27, 2025 |  |
| Higgsfield | Higgsfield is a video AI firm aimed to making social media content creation accessible to everyone. | $50M | Series A | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Phases | Phases automates clinical trial recruitment by AI agents that scan patient databases, schedule visits, and maintain engagement. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Verne Robotics | Verne Robotics develops AI-powered robotic arms that autonomously learn tasks to automate labor work. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| throxy | throxy makes it impossible for your prospects to ignore your outreach through unmatched personalization. | $6.2M | Seed | Sep 04, 2025 |  |
| Klavis AI | Klavis AI is a software company that provides model context protocol integrations for artificial intelligence applications. |  | Seed | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Sherpa Labs | Sherpa Labs creates an AI-powered ecosystem to enhance and automate the entire data science process. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |

10 of 73 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 34 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Asymmetry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asymmetry-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 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 Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 73 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 $500k–$8.4M at Seed, $125k–$500k at Pre-Seed and $17M–$67M 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 Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 73 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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