Liza Wang
Partner
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- Full Name
- Liza Wang
- Title
- Founding and Managing Partner
- Firm
- Silicon Ventures
- Firm Type
- Venture Capital
- Investment Stage
- Seed to Series A, with some Series B activity
- Check Size
- $100,000-$5,000,000; reported sweet spot $1,500,000
- Target Company Profile
- Early-stage technology companies and serial entrepreneurs, especially companies positioned around e-commerce enablement and long-term category shifts
- Sector Focus
- AI, consumer, enterprise, fintech, retail/e-commerce, enterprise applications, deep tech, online social
- Geographic Focus
- United States and Asia, with stated operating experience across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Greater China
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area / Silicon Valley; SEC filings list Menlo Park, California
Background
Liza Wang is the Founding and Managing Partner of Silicon Ventures, an early-stage venture firm whose website describes its focus as “Investing in Ecommerce Enablement and Serial Entrepreneurs.” Silicon Ventures says it backs technology companies and teams positioned to dominate future sectors, trends, and product areas, drawing insights from technology hubs in the U.S. and Asia.
Before founding Silicon Ventures, Wang was a Partner / General Partner at Long Venture Partners, an early-stage Silicon Valley VC firm. Long Venture Partners’ team page says she had previously co-founded Guru Online (Holdings) Limited, a Hong Kong-listed digital and marketing company in Asia Pacific and Greater China, and had also worked as a growth consultant for Edmodo and as a manager at Procter & Gamble.
Guru Online’s listing materials identify Wang Lai Man, Liza as one of the founders of the group and a non-executive director. The Silicon Ventures team page says Guru Online was a public company in digital and mobile marketing across Greater China and Southeast Asia.
Wang’s education is listed by Silicon Ventures as the University of California, Berkeley and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Long Venture Partners specifies degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Berkeley Haas School of Business. Her listed honors include Piaget Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 and Outstanding Businesswomen Award 2019.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Silicon Ventures’ stated top-level thesis is “Investing in Ecommerce Enablement and Serial Entrepreneurs.”
- The firm says it backs “top serial entrepreneurs” and believes “winning founders are veterans at the game.”
- Silicon Ventures says it invests in companies and teams “well-positioned to dominate particular sectors, trends, and product-areas in the upcoming decade.”
- Wang’s own 2020 investing note highlighted opportunities in digital advertising infrastructure, brand-safe / regulated social and UGC platforms, offline-to-online commerce shifts, live-streaming commerce, niche/long-tail monetization, and remote/hybrid work infrastructure.
- Public investor databases list the firm’s stage focus as Seed, Series A, and Series B, with check sizes from $100,000 to $5,000,000.
- Sector coverage is consistently described as AI, consumer, enterprise, fintech, retail/e-commerce, software/SaaS, deep tech, and online social.
Notable Investments
- Daffy / Aside — Donor-advised-fund platform; Aside, the company behind Daffy, announced a $17.1M Series A in February 2022 backed by Ribbit Capital, XYZ Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Silicon Ventures, and angel investors.
- Swiftly — Retail technology platform for retailers and retail media; announced a $100M Series B in March 2022 with Silicon Ventures participating.
- EnquireLabs / Fairing — Zero-party-data and customer survey platform for e-commerce brands; raised a $4.5M seed round in March 2022 led by True Ventures with Silicon Ventures participating.
- Firework — Video commerce / “shoppertainment” platform; listed in Silicon Ventures’ portfolio, and founder testimony on the firm site says Wang invested from seed through Series A.
- BoomPop — AI-powered corporate event planning platform; public databases list Silicon Ventures as a participant in its $14M Series A in November 2022.
- JusticeText — AI platform for public defenders to analyze digital evidence; public databases list Silicon Ventures as a participant in its September 2022 seed round.
- Atmos — Homebuilding platform for custom homes; listed in Silicon Ventures’ portfolio, with firm news linking to 2020 coverage of Atmos’ funding and product.
- Mati / MetaMap — Digital identity verification company; listed in Silicon Ventures’ portfolio, with firm news linking to TechCrunch coverage of Mati’s Series A.
- Shiprocket — India-based e-commerce shipping/logistics platform; listed in Silicon Ventures’ portfolio.
- BlackBuck — India-based digital trucking and logistics platform; listed in Silicon Ventures’ portfolio.
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