Summary
Addison Leong is a Venture Partner at DCM and a multidisciplinary technologist with a decade of experience building and investing in early-stage AI and SaaS companies. He moves fluidly between hands-on engineering, product and design, and investor roles—previously hacking on projects and leading data science at Pear VC while helping drive over $50M in seed funding. A serial founder and operator, he built AI-driven tools at Timerite and Alder to accelerate labor and hardware workflows, and co-founded productivity and music ventures that show a knack for both product-market fit and creative distribution. Addison’s background in Symbolic Systems from Stanford and a stint on the Swift team at Apple underscore his technical depth across languages, UX, and system design. He’s as comfortable prototyping new venture frameworks as he is producing visual art and music, a creative thread that informs unconventional, contrarian investment bets. Colleagues describe him as an operator-investor who ships code, ships products, and invents new ways for venture to work.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Symbolic Systems, Bachelor's Degree Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
English, Spanish