Presenter

Tuff Yen

Founder & CEO, Seraph Group

Tuff Yen is the founder and President of Seraph Group, a professionally managed angel investment fund group that invests in seed and early stage private enterprises by leveraging its proprietary network of more than 160 successful business leaders and entrepreneurs. This invitation-only global network spans 23 cities across U.S., China and Europe and was established to capitalize the imbalance supply and demand of micro venture capital/super angel investing; to provide individuals and family offices an institutionalized angel investing platform; and to offer entrepreneurs a connected network to accelerate growth.  With an extensive venture capital and private equity investing background on both coasts, and as entrepreneur and angel investor, Yen saw an opportunity to deliver a new ‘network centric’ investment platform to serve both investors and entrepreneurs.Yen spent his career as a scientist and a professional investor. He worked as a venture capitalist with Hambrecht & Quist’s venture fund (“HQAP”) in San Francisco as well as Chemical Bank’s venture arm in New York City. During this period, he worked on investments in a broad range of businesses including industrial manufacturing, distribution, entertainment, publishing, information technology, Internet, medical and life sciences. Prior to joining the VC community, Yen was a bioengineer with Genentech and worked at Amgen, two leading biotechnology pioneers. He received his Masters in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management and his Bachelor degree in Arts in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of California Berkeley.

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