David Weng
General manager
Taiwania Capital Management Corporation
David Weng is recognized as a seasoned angel and venture investor with proven track record of bringing startups to successful IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. He focuses primarily on early-stage investments in Internet, enterprise software, wireless, cyber security, and rapidly-growing technology companies.
He has invested in about 80 early-stage high technology companies. Some of the more notable successes include the NetScreen Technologies IPO and its acquisition by Juniper Networks for US$4 billion, and Protego Networks' acquisition by Cisco Systems.
Prior to his investment projects, David served as Software Engineering Director at Cisco Systems and at Hewlett-Packard before that. He actively participated in M&A activities during Cisco fast-growing time in the 90's. He has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and Internet technologies.
David was President of the Silicon Valley Taiwan Angels Group and on the board of the San Jose State University Tower Foundation as he received his M.S. in Computer Science Engineering from San Jose State University in 1983.