Ryan Wang

Investing in people is what drives Ryan Wang, the Co-founder and General Partner of Outpost Capital, a leading, cross-border, early-stage, venture fund based in San Francisco and Beijing.

His multicultural background, a successful career track record and his personal interest in becoming a world explorer take Ryan across the USA and the world for investing in interesting startups. He lives in San Francisco but travels frequently to LA, NYC, Seattle, and China. Ryan oversees companies in the US and greater China with solid insights and strong connections in both markets.

Ryan’s main area of investment is in VR/AR, Blockchain (Equity and Pre-ICO), new frontier technology (Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Drones/Robotics, Lightfield), Gaming/Esports, new Media& Entertainment companies.

Ryan is also Chief Business Officer of MOAC Blockchain, a high-performance multi-layered public blockchain.

Prior to OutpostVC, Ryan was a Venture Partner at CLI Ventures managing its TMT investment arm with over $200M AUM. His earlier career days were working as an investment banker at Citigroup and Societe Generale in New York City.

He also mentors at the Launch Academy, a top startup hub based in Vancouver, Canada. Ryan is also coaching a few startup teams at Nanyang Technology University (NTU) in Singapore, under the Startup Case Challenge (SCC) program at Nanyang Technopreneurship Center.

Besides a high-profile career, Ryan wears many other hats literally considering his avid interest in collecting hats. He also enjoys snowboarding, sci-fi stuff and is a Dota 2 player and also an MMA student.