Charles Yang
Founder at Bard Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Yang is a founder and operator based in San Francisco with eight years of experience catalyzing startups, talent, and capital across venture and early-stage ecosystems. He has held chief-of-staff roles at On Deck and The House Fund, co-founded teams at AbstractOps, and now leads Bard Labs while advising/investing through Fieldguide. His interests span AI, supply chains, critical minerals, energy, and YIMBY advocacy, reflecting a rare blend of deep tech curiosity and policy-minded systems thinking. Comfortable switching between fundraising, go-to-market, and product operations, he excels at building the flywheel that connects founders, operators, and investors. Outside work he’s a Cal graduate who snowboards and produces music in Ableton—a hint at his creative, hands-on problem solving. Charles is open to conversations about startups, venture, and collaborations over coffee.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Arts (BA) at University of California, BerkeleyInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at West High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (49)
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roberta8
statistical-mechanics8
monte-carlo8
similarity8
electra8
markdown7
dft7
multilingual7
graph7
word-embeddings7
sentence-similarity7
fenics7
nlp7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
charlesxjyang/Alexandria
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:62 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
charlesxjyang/ebike-library-rva
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:66 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
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