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I'm a generalist investor for Techstars NYC focused on AI, health, supply chain and climate: accelerating some of the highest-profile early-stage companies in the world. I have sourced & evaluated 3,000+ startups and worked with the Managing Director to select 25 investments.

I also help plan the program execution and manager the speaker, mentor, and investor relationships that help our founders do more faster. I personally coach & work with founders to figure out how to get to PMF, fundraising strategy, recruitment & hiring strategy, and ops/automation (aka How to Save Time) and continue to do portfolio support for companies from past programs.

Select Investments: Olli Health, CodSpeed,  KYD Labs, CollectWise, Reelist, Ripple, Offe Market, Imaginario, Mishe

Investment Manager

Investment Associate

Senpai

Helped experts get paid to answer questions with audio answers at Senpai ⚡️ (HF0 2021 batch)
Backed by amazing investors like Backend Capital & the VP of Product at Quora
#1 on Product Hunt (Golden Kitty Awards 2021 Finalist), featured on Forbes

Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder & COO

Co-Created (spun out of Prehype)

Startup consulting for Co-Created, a venture studio that spun out of Prehype, extending a 10+ year track record to continue building startups with some of the world's best companies and entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur In Residence

Auby

Auby uses AI to curate personalized playlists of clips from podcasts and audiobooks on your favorite topics. 

Aube was acquired by Adashe.

Founder & CEO

The New School Podcast

The goal of The New School is to help others figure out how to turn their passions into meaningful careers.

Listen now on:
Auby - https://heyauby.page.link/FDmPNLEnz4JRLGzK9
Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-new-school-with-christine-hong/id1493320317
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1dZMeZGX73kjGeyVZzq6Qb
Other Platforms - https://anchor.fm/thenewschool

Podcast Host

Tinder, Inc.

Innovation Team: worked on new growth features targeted at Gen Z including
- Swipe Night: interactive video experience where your choices leads to matches
- Festival Mode/Spring Break Mode: match with others going to the same event before getting there
- Tinder U: match with other verified university students

Trust & Safety Team: product lead, worked on various methods to help people feel safer on Tinder including
- overhauling the user reporting system
- adding ML to content and text moderation methods
- improving tools for community moderation teams

Lead Product Manager

Fulfilled my childhood dream of being an actress. Ironically, the first network role I booked was on HBO's Silicon Valley.

Found myself frequently auditioning for roles like "asian nerd" or "asian hooker" so left to have more creative control in my career instead of promoting unhealthy stereotypes.

Actor

Upload

Taught Virtual Reality Development Workshops (Unity, C#)

VR Instructor

Yahoo

Joined through Marissa Mayer's APM (Associate Product Manager) program. 

Product Manager for Lifestyle Labs, focused on incubating new lifestyle focused apps.

Incubations Product Manager

Frontend Developer for newest version of Yahoo Mail. Helped rebuild Mail from scratch in React, Flux, Node.

Software Engineer

Echo Dance Journal

Echo was a growth-focused app that allows students to track progress in a video journal and receive expert feedback from credible teachers. Teachers provide feedback on different parts of the students' video using audio and touch.

Our initial target audience was dance students since they had the strongest desire for feedback on a visual performance from instructors. 

Demo of the main features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLsKYH5lfFY

iOS Developer (First Developer)

Engineer → Founder → Investor @ Techstars NYC | Investing in the health of people and the planet, and the systems that power them (health, climate, AI, supply chain).

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