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Investor profile

Jerry Yang

General Partner, HCVC

About

Jerry Yang is a venture capital investor at HCVC who brings rare hands-on semiconductor design and fabrication experience from co-founding a chip startup in Taiwan that was acquired by Atheros/Qualcomm, plus technical roles at Qualcomm and Altis Semiconductor. He's also a published novelist and essayist who speaks five languages and splits his time between Europe and Asia, helping bridge global hardtech ecosystems while regularly publishing detailed analyses on semiconductor economics and manufacturing realities. Jerry Yang is a venture capital investor at HCVC who brings rare hands-on semiconductor design and fabrication experience from co-founding a chip startup in Taiwan that was acquired by Atheros/Qualcomm, plus technical roles at Qualcomm and Altis Semiconductor. He's also a published novelist and essayist who speaks five languages and splits his time between Europe and Asia, helping bridge global hardtech ecosystems while regularly publishing detailed analyses on semiconductor economics and manufacturing realities.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
Deeptech
Hardware
Robotics
BioTech
Climate
AI

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $1M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
Europe