Steven Xi is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Eastlink Capital. Prior to co-founding Eastlink in 2014, he was a special advisor (2012-2016) and Managing Director (2007-2011) at Riverwood Capital, a tech focused global growth capital PE firm with over $3 Billion assets under management. Based at Riverwood’s Menlo Park office, he focused on Internet, software/IT services and digital media investments related to China. Prior to joining Riverwood in 2007, Mr. Xi was a Managing Director at The Hina Group Fund I, where he focused on expansion-stage investments in the technology and digital media space. Since 2004, Mr. Xi has invested in several successful companies including Databricks, Uber, MobileIron, Framedia (sold to Focus Media (Nasdaq: FMCN) for $183 million), VanceInfo Technologies (NYSE: PACT), and RenRen (NYSE: Renn). Before joining Hina in late 2004, Mr. Xi was Acting Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at VanceInfo. Prior to that, he co-founded and managed an Ecommerce startup headquartered in Silicon Valley. Prior to his entrepreneurial experience, Mr. Xi spent six and half years in investment banking and principal investment in New York and Hong Kong. He started his investment banking career with CSFB in New York (first corporate finance associate from Mainland China). Mr. Xi earned an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MA in Economics (Ph.D candidate in Econometrics) from the University of Southern California and a BS in Physics from Jilin University. Mr. Xi also spent one year in graduate studies at the Ford Foundation Economic Training Center at Renmin University of China. Mr. Xi was a board member of Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE), and was on the global advisory council of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2006-2012).

Eric Ye is a Partner at Eastlink Capital, specialized in cloud-native infrastructure investment. He was a founding partner at Eminence Ventures, focusing on enterprise SaaS. He has served as advisor to a dozen of fast growth tech-driven startups. His portfolio covers Fintech, AI/ML, distributed DB, bigdata streaming and computational storage etc. Prior to that, Eric was CTO & SVP of Technology and Chief Scientist of Ctrip (NASDAQ: TCOM) who had elevated the travel platform to the largest cloud-based & mobile-first marketplace enabling networks between travel suppliers and consumers. During his previous engineering career, he had played various roles as principal engineer, architect and director in Ebay and Yahoo.

Jun Wang is a seasoned Silicon Valley tech executive. He recently built and led a global org of software engineers, data scientists, and technical program managers for Twitter. Before this, he ran product management and data science at a venture-funded startup in the fin-tech space. He has previously spent 5 years managing Google’s analytics and data science teams in Google Maps, Ad words, and Google Payment. He started his career in risk management at HSBC after getting his master’s degree in Industrial Math at MSU.

Jessie Jia is an investor at Eastlink Capital. Before joining Eastlink, she co-founded and served as Product Lead at Applify AI, an AI education startup developing an AI-powered platform that provides personalized assistance to support students from college applications to academic life. Jessie earned her B.A.S. degree from Stanford University, double majoring in Economics and Management Science and Engineering. She holds an M.S. degree in Operations Research from Columbia University.

Anthony Sun is a Senior Venture Advisor of Eastlink Capital. He was the CEO of Venrock Associates ( the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family) for 8 years and a General Partner of Venrock for over 30 years. Mr. Sun also co-founded GGV Capital, a successful multi-billion cross-border venture fund. Mr. Sun invested in and advised over 60 high tech start up companies with more than two dozen successful IPOs or M&A realizations. He currently is the Chair of the Board of Cognex Corp. (CGNX) and FutureDial. He has also served as a member of the Corporation and Trustee of MIT and a board member of the National Venture Capital Association. Mr. Sun holds a B.S, M.S. and Engineer degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT, as well as an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Prof. Yiran Chen is a Senior Strategic Advisor of Eastlink Capital. He is the John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, and the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next-generation Networks (Athena), one of the 25 National AI Institutes in the United States, as well as the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC). Prior to joining Duke, Prof. Chen was an Associate Professor at  University of Pittsburgh. He has served as Chairman of the Board, Independent Director, and in other consultancy roles for several startups, and is a founding member of the steering committee of the Academic Alliance on AI Policy (AAAIP) and a member of the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF). He received his B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. from Purdue University.

David Lifeng Chen is a Senior Venture Advisor of Eastlink Capital. Mr.Chen is a Chairman of Hysta and former Vice Chairman & President of VanceInfo (which later merged with HiSoft to form Pactera), one of the largest China based IT services firms. Prior to co-founding VanceInfo, he held multiple management and technical positions at Asera, IBM/Crossworlds, KPMG Consulting, Oracle and UCSF Medical Center. Mr.Chen received his B.S. in Computer Science from TongJi University and his M.S. in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine.

Benjamin Fanger is a Senior Venture Advisor of Eastlink Capital. Mr. Fanger is the Managing Partner and founder of ShoreVest Partners. He has managed approximately $2 billion in investments, and sits on ShoreVest’s Investment Committee. In 2004, Mr. Fanger was one of the founders of Shoreline Capital and architected the firm and its strategies.Prior to co-founding Shoreline Capital and ShoreVest Partners, Mr. Fanger started several companies, two of which he sold to public companies. Mr. Fanger holds a JD and MBA from the University of Chicago and is a licensed attorney in the State of California.

David Cao is ​a Venture Advisor of Eastlink Capital, and focuses on the AI, mobile and big data sectors. David was the VP of Human Resources in Global Operations at Alibaba Group, where he managed many different groups. Previously, he was the director of Human Resources at Amazon and Codexis Inc, as well as the Sr. HR Business Partner at Intuit. David received a MBA from the Fordham Gabelli School of Business.