Zao Yang
Angel Investor
San Francisco, United States
Zao Yang is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Mobile and Software. Sizhao Yang is the former CEO of Daglabs.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Zao Yang invests in
Stages Zao Yang invests in
Countries Zao Yang invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $10k–$10M
- Angel
- $1.1M–$2.4M
- Series B
- $2.5M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 3 (21%)
- Software 3 (21%)
- E-Commerce 3 (21%)
- Mobile Apps 3 (21%)
- Shopping 2 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (43%)
- Angel 4 (29%)
- Series B 2 (14%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 10 (71%)
- Spain 1 (7%)
- Australia 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks. | $10M / Seed / Jan 14, 2022 | ||
| If you are even thinking about food blogs, Cucumbertown is one place you have to check out. It's a blogging platform that designed for the needs of a food blogger. This means that the platform is working towards making the lives of food bloggers better so that they can spend more and more time concentrating on creating content for their blograther than worrying about SEO for their blog. Now, you can have your cake and eat it too with Cucumbertown monetisation. | $300K / Seed / Nov 14, 2012 | ||
| Treasure Data is an enterprise customer data platform that offers end-to-end, fully-managed cloud service for big data. The company is providing the ability to aggregate and translate massive volumes of scattered and siloed data. It helps to harness and analyze the information that needs to create a data-driven enterprise.Only Treasure Data canhandle the scale, security, and complexity required by a global enterprise in a way that empowers business decision-makers to deliver a superior customer experience and creates a unique competitive advantage. The company's 250+ corporate customers include Subaru, Warner Bros., MobFox, GREE, Pioneer, and several Global Fortune 500 companies.Treasure Data was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Japan and Korea. | $1.3M / Seed / Nov 01, 2012 | ||
| Bubble Gum Interactive is an independent game development studio headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The company develops story-driven entertainment experiences including the virtual world "Space Heroes Universe!" and games for mobile. Bubble Gum Interactive has VC funding, Angel Investment and Government Grant funding. | $2.5M / Series B / Jun 27, 2012 | ||
| Identified is a big data and analytics company that pioneered SYMAN, a technology that transforms social data from Facebook into professional intelligence for people and companies.Identified was founded in 2009 by Stanford University MBA students Adeyemi Ajao and Brendan Wallace, as a research project. Identified launched its beta product tothe public in September 2011 and attracted more than 10 million users. The company has raised $22.5 million in funding and currently has 40 employees, based in San Francisco's China Basin. | $21M / Series B / Jun 05, 2012 | ||
| Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Wish is an e-commerce platform, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide. Wish employs big data principles, machine-learning, and search technologies to create a highly-visual, entertaining, and personalized browsing experience for eachuser. The company leverages a global network of direct suppliers, providing access to top quality, affordable products to anyone with a smartphone. As of 2018, Wish has more than 80 million monthly active users, over one million merchants, and sells nearly 1 billion products annually. For more information about the company or to download the Wish mobile app. | $1.7M / Angel / Mar 03, 2011 | ||
| ContextLogic Inc., formerly known for its Wish ecommerce platform, is a technology-driven company specializing in the online retail sector. The company previously offered a global marketplace connecting consumers with merchants through a mobile shopping experience. Following a recent transaction, ContextLogic has sold its operating assets to Qoo10and now focuses on leveraging its substantial net operating losses (NOLs) for future financial opportunities. ContextLogic continues to explore ways to maximize the value of these tax attributes while managing reduced operational expenses. | $1.7M / Angel / Mar 03, 2011 | ||
| ecomom.com is the brainchild of parents and professionals who saw an unexplored area of parenting and shopping and wanted to bridge the gap between making healthy choices and making easy choices. ecomom.com provides comprehensive, eco-conscious, e-commerce and social shopping which is centered around making it easy to make mindful decisions aboutthe products parents choose to put on, in and around their children and families.ecomom.com also provides relevant information for moms as well as other trusted expert opinions from organizations like Healthy Child Healthy World, and professionals in pertinent parenting fields such as health, nutrition, fitness and mindful living.ecomom.com makes purchasing products, essential to the development of healthy children and families, accessible and effortless. | Angel / Dec 21, 2010 | ||
| Hipmunk is a travel search site that aims to take the agony out of travel planning. Their mission is to help people book travel faster and more efficiently. Hipmunk was designed to help people who are overwhelmed with pages of irrelevant search results. Hipmunk presents flight results in a visual timeline that allows people to select the bestflight for them at a glance. Hotel results are shown on a map so that people can view wherein a destination they will be staying and the landmarks near them. | $1M / Seed / Oct 05, 2010 | ||
| ecomom.com is the brainchild of parents and professionals who saw an unexplored area of parenting and shopping and wanted to bridge the gap between making healthy choices and making easy choices. ecomom.com provides comprehensive, eco-conscious, e-commerce and social shopping which is centered around making it easy to make mindful decisions aboutthe products parents choose to put on, in and around their children and families.ecomom.com also provides relevant information for moms as well as other trusted expert opinions from organizations like Healthy Child Healthy World, and professionals in pertinent parenting fields such as health, nutrition, fitness and mindful living.ecomom.com makes purchasing products, essential to the development of healthy children and families, accessible and effortless. | $1.1M / Angel / Sep 25, 2010 | ||
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FAQ
What does Zao Yang invest in?
Zao Yang invests primarily in Mobile, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 14 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 Zao Yang's check size?
Zao Yang typically joins rounds of $10k–$10M at Seed, $1.1M–$2.4M at Angel and $2.5M–$21M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Zao Yang participates in.
How do I contact Zao Yang?
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When did Zao Yang last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Zao Yang closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 14 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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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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