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BEDY YANG
500 Startups
United States
Bedy Yang is Managing Partner at 500 Startups, a seed and incubator fund in Silicon Valley
with investments in over 50 countries. At 500 Startups, she is responsible for Brazil and
Spanish-speaking investments and developing an investor training program (www.500.vc).
She is also founder of +INNOVATORS, an organization that became the epicenter and resource
for Brazilian tech founders with a network of over 10,000 people. Bedy was featured on Forbes
Brazil and America's Quarterly as innovator and she is member of Kauffman Fellowship
Program. Prior to starting her career in tech, she worked with income generation for women
tribes in Brazil and South-West China and consulted for Global companies on go-to-market
strategy to Brazil.
JAMES WU
FTV Capital
United States
James is an Associate at FTV based in San Francisco. Prior to joining FTV, James was an
investment banking analyst in the Technology Group at Jefferies. At Jefferies, James worked on
executing merger and acquisitions, debt, and equity transactions in the software and internet
sector. James received a BA in economics with a minor in accounting from UCLA.
