Helen Liang
Founder & Managing Partner at SpaceX
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHelen Liang is the Founder & Managing Partner of FoundersX Ventures, a Silicon Valley AI-first VC managing over $500M AUM and an early backer of more than ten unicorns across deep tech, fintech, biotech, and space. With 13 years in high-tech product and operations and an original investment team from Stanford, she blends engineering rigor from a PhD background in materials science with a product-first venture discipline to build GenAI infrastructure and agentic AI startups. Helen sits on multiple boards and has been featured in the WSJ and Business Insider, and she lectures at Stanford and speaks at TechCrunch, signaling credibility across both academia and industry. Her portfolio spans frontier bets—from SpaceX and Universal Quantum to protein sequencing and embodied robotics—demonstrating a knack for spotting platform-level technologies that scale. Notably, she has transitioned from hands-on R&D leadership at Seagate into venture creation and company-building, giving her a rare operator-to-investor perspective. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she combines technical depth, deal-making experience, and a track record of turning deep research into commercial impact.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Program Leadership Development, Executive Program Leadership Development at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessDirectors College 2023 Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Directors College 2023 Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law SchoolPh.D. Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonExecutive Programs on Private Equity & Venture Capital and Investment Management, Executive Programs on Private Equity & Venture Capital and Investment Management at Harvard Business School
English, German
Github Skills (133)
windows10
seq10
javascript10
openlibrary10
html10
js10
genome10
electron10
v810
cross-platform10
sequencing10
macos10
nodejs10
css10
desktop10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hliang/hliang.github.io
Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
hliang/matchbox
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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