Jeff Tang
Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Tang is a venture partner and founder with nine years of experience building and scaling product-led startups, including Athens Research (YC W21), an open-source knowledge-graph note app that amassed 6.3k+ GitHub stars and raised $1.85M. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering—demonstrated by contributions in Clojure/ClojureScript to Athens—with operator experience launching consumer and lab businesses, founding and exiting a meal-prep startup aligned with a longevity protocol. Currently investing with Pioneer Fund and Orange DAO, Jeff evaluates YC companies and supports founders while staying active in web3 and open-source communities. Known for bridging deep technical craftsmanship with business development and community-building, he has a history of first-hire, product, and growth roles at startups and formative internships at Microsoft and AI personalization firms.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor's Leave of Absence, Bachelor's Leave of Absence at Rice UniversityFull-Stack Software Engineering, Full-Stack Software Engineering at Horizons School of TechnologyThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Github Skills (10)
clojure10
reagent10
clojure-cli10
clojurescript10
front-end-development9
back-end-development9
knowledge-management9
knowledge-graph9
evernote8
notepad8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
athensresearch/athens
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
ATHENS IS NO LONGER BEING ACTIVELY MAINTAINED. Athens is an open-source, collaborative knowledge graph.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 364 reviews, 779 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeff appears to be a full-stack developer, focusing on implementing features and refactoring code. Their commits include the addition of linked and unlinked references and the creation of page-level controls, which involve both front-end and back-end code. They demonstrate knowledge of Clojure and ClojureScript, suggesting interaction with the front-end Reagent library as well.
actively-maintainedknowledgeknowledge-baseathensknowledge-graph
BlockAndJerrys/block-and-jerrys
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
React Webapp using LND to serve ice cream to the Bitcoin Mainnet
Contributions:103 commits, 40 PRs, 56 pushes in 19 days
icecreamlndreactmainnetserve
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