Angela Liang

Angela Liang works at Acario Innovation, the Silicon Valley-based corporate venture capital and open-innovation subsidiary that Tokyo Gas established in 2017 to invest in and build businesses around the new energy economy and sustainability. Acario describes itself as "a group of scientists, engineers, and venture investors with an entrepreneurial mindset" focused on advanced energy technologies, decarbonization, and the digital transformation of the energy industry — aligned with Tokyo Gas's "Compass 2030" decarbonization strategy.

Per her Stanford mediaX profile, Angela's role at Acario is an Innovation Analyst position (she is more recently identified as Strategy and Innovation Manager), where the work centers on rigorous technical and market analysis to source, evaluate, and support entrepreneurs and partners in energy and sustainability. Before joining Acario, she worked at Apple as a Worldwide Developer Relations professional, giving her a background bridging developer/partner ecosystems and corporate strategy.

Angela has also been affiliated with Stanford University's mediaX research program, an industry-academia network connecting corporate innovators with Stanford research on people and technology. Her association there reflects Acario's model of collaborating with top labs, incubators, venture funds, and corporations to conduct the diligence that underpins its investments.

• Invests through Acario Innovation, the corporate VC arm of Tokyo Gas, in "market-leading companies in the new energy economy and sustainability sectors, including mobility, energy storage, and next-generation customer and energy services."
• Concentrates on early-stage (seed to Series A) companies, while also joining larger syndicated rounds (e.g., participating in a hydrogen infrastructure Series D) when strategically aligned.
• Core sectors: energy storage, EV/mobility and micro-mobility, grid software and distributed energy resources, hydrogen, decarbonization/climate tech, IoT, and energy data/analytics.
• Strategic (not purely financial) rationale: investments must advance Tokyo Gas's decarbonization goals and "create a mutually beneficial ecosystem around the energy industry," so a clear fit with utility/energy-transition value chains is a key "yes" factor.