Marvin Liao

Investor, Diaspora Ventures

Role: Associate

Site: CDL-Montreal

Stream: Artificial Intelligence

Marvin Liao is an investor-operator and executive coach. He is a partner at Rolling Fund Diaspora.vc where he manages an angel investment fund, Sukna Global. Marvin is also a partner and board member at Game Groove Capital, an International Gaming Holding Company. He was previously a partner at venture capital fund 500 Startups, running the SF-based accelerator program as well as investing in seed-stage startups. He has invested in over 414 pre-seed and seed-stage startups during the six years spent there.

Marvin also spent 10.5 years at Yahoo! as an executive with extensive operating experience expanding businesses across Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States in his career at the company. He presently serves on the investment committees and advisory boards of several venture capital funds. Marvin also mentors at numerous accelerator programs around the world.