Roger Jie Luo

Embedding VC

Embedding VC is a pre-seed/seed stage venture firm in Silicon Valley to back US Generative AI startups. We are committed to the mission of developing AGI and believe we are at the onset of a new computing supercycle, fundamentally driven by AI innovations. Our investors are all current or former builders and operators. As active company builders from the ideation stage, we are often among the first institutional investors to support ambitious and visionary founders.

Founder & Managing Partner

Engineering Leaders Community Angels

Engineering Leaders Community Angels is an inclusive community of engineering leaders investing in early-stage technology startups founded by engineering and product leaders. The group is managed by a group of Engineering Leaders Community (ELC) members who are also experienced angel investors and operators. We focus on investing in engineering-driven startups with disruptive market opportunities, solid traction, technology advantage, and making a positive impact on society, whether they are in enterprise, consumer, or deep tech. 

ELC (https://sfelc.com/) is a curated community for engineering leaders in Silicon Valley, with close to 10,000 leaders (from CTO/VP to frontline managers) from over 3,000+ companies. Our mission is to empower engineering leaders and help evolve the way leadership is implemented in the tech industry. 

ELC portfolio companies: Datasaur, Respell AI, InpharmD, Bacca AI, testRigor AI, Onwish

Join syndicate: https://angellist.com/s/elc/uwmgp

Co-Founder and Managing Partner 

Angel Investor

Early-stage startups that I invest in and/or advise: Bacca (AI reliability oncall Engineer, Uncork Capital), testRigor (Generative AI-based Test Automation Tool, YC), Superlinked (VectorOps, Index Ventures and Theory Ventures), Particle Labs (Leverage Automated Market Maker, Polychain Capital), Onwish (AI Assistant for Professional Financial Analysts), InpharmD (AI Assistant for Clinic Pharmacist, 645 Ventures, YC), MagicSchool.ai (Co-pilot for educators, GSV Ventures), Pinnacle (AI Copilot for learning how to manage engineering team), Monterey.ai (Intelligent customer voice infrastructure, YC), Respell.ai (No-code AI application platform, Craft Ventures), Vinovest (Wine investing and trading),  Digma.ai (1st continuous feedback platform for developers),  DealDriver.ai (AI-powered car buying service), BlockPi (Distributed multi-chain acceleration layer), RealM (Generative AI social platform where your words come to life, Insight Partners), Gradual (All-in-one community platform), Eco (Unbank, A16Z & Founders Fund), Datasaur (Labeling tools for machine learning, YC & Initialized Capital), Ahana (A managed service for Presto, Acquired by IBM), Super Effective (Social media), Meemo.ai (Personal finance app, Acquired by Coinbase), TigerGraph (Fastest and the most scalable Graph DB, Tiger Global & SIG), NEAR Protocol (A highly scalable, low cost blockchain protocol, A16Z & Coinbase Venture), NUTS Finance (DeFi, Polychain, Hypersphere), LMK (anonymous poll for Snap kit, GGV Venture), VideoSlick (AI for professional video editing), Quest.ai (formally GameCommerce , UX Automated), Invi Labs (Messenger service, Acquired by Google), Splish (Social media for Gen Z, Acquired by NTWRK).

Building a DevTools ecosystem on top of ELC. Empower and enable engineering leaders with state-of-art DevTools. 

ELC https://sfelc.com/ is a curated community for engineering leaders in Silicon Valley, with close to 10000 leaders (from CTO/VP to frontline managers) from over 3000+ companies. Our mission is to empower engineering leaders and help evolve the way leadership is implemented in the tech industry. 

We host monthly events and annual conferences, inviting high-caliber engineering leaders to share their learnings and insights on various topics engineering leaders care about. Our speakers include some of the best engineering leaders, book authors, and entrepreneurs, such as Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, Eric Yuan and tech executives from Google, Amazon, Facebook, OpenAI, Affirm, Square, Lyft, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Stripe, Pinterest, Stitch Fix, VMware, Waymo, Slack, Airbnb, Gusto, DoorDash, Yelp, Grand Rounds, Quora, Github, Credit Karma, Zendesk, Robinhood, Zillow, etc.

I have been an active community member since 2018.

DevTools Partner

Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures collaborates with elite angel investors — a select group of co-investors chosen for their track record, sector expertise, and community connections.

Super Angel Partner

On Deck

Stay on top of the technology and business trends through angel investing.

Angels Fellow (ODA5)

Sequoia Capital

Source and invest in early stage startups.

Scout

Niantic, Inc.

Oversee Niantic’s machine learning division, leading a team of applied machine learning scientists & engineers, infrastructure engineers and product manager. Drive the ideation, development, and deployment of machine learning solutions tailored for Niantic’s games and platform customers.

Director of Machine Learning

Eve is the first personalized AI tool built for the legal profession that you can partner with, train, and teach, just like any other member of your team.

Co-Founder

Mosaix.ai

– Develop language AI platform for languages in emerging markets. Work with two of the top ten mobile phone manufactures in the world to build their own white label voice assistant for emerging markets. 
– Recruit and manage product and engineering teams across three different offices (Palo Alto, Shenzhen and Singapore). Setup engineering offices in Shenzhen and Singapore. 
– Define product strategy and engineering roadmap for the company. 
– Shipped 2 million units of Roku like TV operation systems with voice search capability to users covering 6 languages across 40 countries, grew 20% MoM.

* The team landed at AWS during COVID in 2020.

Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer, Head of Engineering

A Y-Combinator startup. As an advisor of the company, I helped the company pivot to focus on emerging markets, raised new venture funds. I ended up joining Mosaix.ai full time as a co-founder in Jun 2019.

Strategy Advisor

Roger is Founder & Managing Parnter of Embedding VC -- an early stage venture fund in Silicon Valley to back Generative AI startups.

Roger was a seasoned entrepreneur, having co-founded two AI SaaS startups, where he spearheaded efforts in engineering, machine learning, and product management. Beyond his startup experience, Roger held roles leading machine learning and applied science teams at technology companies like Niantic, Snap, and Yahoo! Labs. He earned his PhD on machine learning in 2011, and has contributed over 40 papers in top AI/ML conferences and journals and 6 US patents in AI. Roger is also an active angel investor and venture scout/partner, with investments in over ~40 startups. Three portfolio companies he backed at pre-seed/seed stage became unicorns. Roger co-founded and manages the Engineering Leaders Community Angels syndicate, focusing on early-stage AI/DevToolsI/SaaS deals. This community connects nearly 10,000 Silicon Valley engineering leaders from over 3,000 companies.

Building real world metaverse using AI/ML. I am hiring machine learning engineers and scientists, infra engineers, and data engineers to work on the following areas: 
- Applied machine learning
- Machine learning platform
- User insight

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