Marvin Liao Email Address

Consultant

500 Startups is a global venture capital seed fund with a network of startup programs headquartered in Silicon Valley. 500 Startups is the #1 most active seed fund in the world. We believe successful internet startups are born from usable design, customer-focused metrics, and online distribution. Starting a company is not for the faint of heart. Founders must be audacious, innovative, and disruptive. At 500 Startups, we challenge ourselves to also embody those qualities in how we help startups through both our seed fund and our startup accelerator program. In no particular order, that means: - Building best-in-class resources for usable design, customer-focused metrics, and online distribution - Creating a diverse network of experienced and operationally-focused mentors. - Partnering with key platform companies and services that will help our startups. - Pushing the envelope on how we do investments. We typically invest between $25K-$250K USD in our first check, however we also make selective follow-on investments at Series A/B of up to $1M USD. We also aim to be innovative in our investment model. Check out Moneyball for Startups, the inspiration for our investment thesis. We're based in Mountain View, California but our companies, mentors, and advisers come from 60+ countries around the world. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and check out our blog for the latest updates. No, we're not your ordinary VC. Wanna keep tabs on 500? Stay up to date with our news & events >> http://eepurl.com/1Wgm1

An Investor and ex-Operator. Marvin is a Partner at Diaspora VC. He was formerly a Partner at Venture Capital Fund 500 Startups, running the SF based accelerator program as well as investing in Seed stage start ups. He Invests in Digital Media, Enterprise SAAS, Marketplace, Mobile, Internet of Things & Fintech startups. He invested in & worked with over 450+ Pre-seed & Seed stage startups such as Embroker, Eaze, Aircall, Manychat, Shippo, RapidAPI, Worthix, Indio, Pipefy, Innovacer, Vela, Apostrophe, AgFunder, Printify, Whereto, Qualio, PlateIQ, Avanoo, Zentist, Stackshare, Shortpoint, MonkeyLearn & Cube.js (aka Statsbot) among many others during his tenure there. Previously an experienced client-facing senior executive in the media and technology space in both large and start up growth companies, having managed large multifunctional teams across multiple countries. He has P&L management experience and most recently responsible for 100% YoY revenue growth while running a business unit and building new sales channels in EMEA & the Emerging Markets regions for the last ~4 years at Yahoo!. A 10.5 year veteran of Yahoo! Inc., Marvin has held executive roles in the various departments of Sales, Business Development, Ad Operations and Marketing. Most of his roles were regional or global management roles giving him extensive experience across Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States in his career at the company. Marvin presently serves on the Investment Committee/Advisory boards of several Venture Capital Funds across the globe. Marvin is a frequent speaker at many Digital Marketing & Tech Startup Conferences. A longtime fan, participant, and an observer of the digital revolution occurring across the world, he is interested in opportunities with top growth companies large and small with a focus on driving monetization and expanding into new international markets.