Eugene Yao
Investor at K8
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEugene Yao is a founder and venture investor with 14 years of experience at the intersection of healthcare, corporate VC, and early-stage startups, based in New York. He leads Women Venture Capitalists to expand the female talent pool in investing and mentors aspiring VCs through programs that blend deal analysis with network-building. Eugene has operated inside and alongside Corporate VC teams at Mach49 and Edge, evaluating Seed-to-Series C healthcare deals and advising on CVC fund design. His background spans product roles and AI/chatbot work, and he writes publicly about healthcare and AI on his blog while sharing reflections on Twitter. An experimental tinkerer (bots, games, generative art, crypto/NFTs) by hobby, he brings both operator sensibility and a pattern-recognition approach to sourcing and scaling startups.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Honours Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Honours Economics at University of Waterloo
Chinese, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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mongodb
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Github Skills (200)
gundb10
uuid10
svg10
visual-studio10
conversational-ui10
swiftui10
opensea10
discord-js10
api10
inferno10
recurring10
json10
nodejs10
webrtc10
css10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
dcsan/fambot
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 7 days
dcsan/r2r
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:72 commits, 70 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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