Lei Wang
Venture Partner at Llama Venture
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Wang is a venture partner and serial entrepreneur based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14 years of technology, startup, and investment experience. He currently leads at Llama Venture and Something New, blending hands-on software leadership with early-stage investing to help startups scale and achieve exits. As an investor with Startups since 2014, he has helped build 4 unicorns, overseen 6 exits, and supported 2 IPOs (NASDAQ: CRBU, NASDAQ: WTRH), reflecting a proven ability to spot and grow high-potential ventures. His engineering career spans Twitter, LinkedIn, and multiple founder roles (Qpou.com, Roxbeam), with deep expertise in search infrastructure, backend systems, and scalable data platforms. He has advised crypto liquidity players f2pool and stakefish, illustrating a broad portfolio that spans traditional software and Web3 ecosystems. A Tianjin University alumnus with a CS degree, Lei combines global product intuition with practical software craftsmanship, and his GitHub work on senseidb/zoie highlights a commitment to robust, high-performance systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer science and technology, Bachelor, Computer science and technology at Tianjin University
Github Skills (6)
lucene10
javas10
java10
refactoring9
unit-testing9
api-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
senseidb/zoie
Mar 2011 - Aug 2012
realtime search/indexing system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Lei primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Zoie search/indexing system. They removed the need for generic declarations in the `ZoieVersion` class and made related unit test changes. Additionally, the user added the `getVersionComparator` method to the `DataConsumer` interface. The commits demonstrate a focus on code clarity, stability, and adherence to established API conventions.
search-enginerealtimeindexingsearch
linkedin/sin
Jul 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:222 commits in 6 months
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