Huoy-Ming Yeh co-founded CSC Upshot Ventures, an early stage technology venture fund focusing on investing and building best of class companies in Silicon Valley.
Ming spent her entire career focusing on building and investing high growth innovative technology companies. She has more than 15 years of experience in venture capital and 10 plus years of deep technical and operational experience in technology companies. Prior to founding CSC Upshot, Ming was a Managing Director at SVB Financial Group, where she headed up SVB Capital Asia. In this role, she led SVB’s venture capital investment activities and manages all aspects of SVB’s relationships with the venture capital and private equity communities in Asia.
Prior to SVB Capital, Ming co-founded PacRim Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Before PacRim Venture Partners, Ming was with the Investment Banking Advisory group at Lehman Brothers where she provided advisory work on mergers, acquisitions and public offerings for venture-stage companies.
Ming’s background includes substantial technology expertise. She was a design engineer for Sun Microsystems, Key Computer Labs (acquired by Amdahl) and Prime Computer. During her years at Sun, she earned three patents for her work on the UltraSPARC processor.
Ming served on the board of CVCA (China Venture Capital Association), an organization that promotes the interest and development of the VC and PE industry in China. Ming also serves on the Wellesley College Business Leadership Council that supports the college in its mission to educate women who will make a difference in the world. Ming was the Chairperson of Women In Leadership, a premier women’s leadership group whose members are senior leaders in the venture capital and private equity communities in China.
Ming holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Wellesley College.