Rong Cao
Builder | 2×🦄 Tech Exec | Investor & Advisor | AI · Cybersecurity · Infrastructure
- Role
- Partner at Westwave Capital
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rong Cao
Builder. Technologist. Product Thinker. Investor.With 20+ years of experience, I specialize in building and scaling products and engineering teams across identity, cybersecurity, AI, Infrastructure and tooling. I’ve led organizations through hyper-growth and helped deliver category-defining platforms that serve millions.As an early-stage investor, I bring both technical depth and product intuition—supporting founders from day zero with the empathy to navigate early chaos and the expertise to scale into multi-billion-dollar businesses.
Experience
Partner
Jan 2023 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Invest in early stage B2B startups, with a particular focus on AI, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Robotics.
Education
University of Houston
MBA candidate, Business Administration
Startup School Online
Advisor Track
2018 — 2018
University of Houston
Master, Computer Science
Venture Deals | Kauffman Fellows Academy and Techstars
Venture capital financing
2018 — 2018
Skills
- Distributed Systems
- Software Engineering
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Software as a Service (Saas)
- Java
- Web Services
- Technical Leadership
- Agile
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Security
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
- Architectures
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud Computing
- Mobile Devices
- Agile Methodologies
- Management
- Saas
- Linux
- Software Product Management
- Strategy
- E-Commerce
- Big Data
- Team Leadership
- Xml
- Rest
- Perl
- Software Design
- Hadoop
- Product Management
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Software Project Management
- Deep Learning
- Leadership
- Web Applications
- Mobile Applications
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