A career building real wealth through technology investing
Tuff Yen is a career venture capitalist who has personally led over $200 million of investment into more than 180 early-stage technology companies.
Tuff began his career as a bioengineer at Genentech and Amgen, two of the world's leading biotechnology companies. After earning his MBA from the Yale School of Management, he entered venture capital at Chemical Venture Partners, the private equity arm of Chemical Bank (now JPMorgan), then managing $8 billion, before joining Hambrecht & Quist's $1.6 billion affiliated fund in San Francisco.
In 2004, he founded Seraph Group and introduced the Structured Angel Fund, a venture capital fund designed specifically for angel investors and family offices. Since then, his investments have spanned aerospace, cybersecurity, medical devices, enterprise software, fintech, and more.
His investor network spans more than 400 individuals across 120 cities in North America, Europe, and Asia, including Fortune 500 C-level executives, entrepreneurs, technologists, and investment professionals.
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