Jim Young

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Jim S. Young, Ph.D is a founder of Perceptual Networks. Dr. Young oversees the company’s technology development and jointly oversees product development.

Dr. Young previously was co-founder, CTO and CEO of HotOrNot.com. In this capacity, he singlehandedly scaled a web property from launch to being a top 25 web property in less than three months, and was responsible for one of the earliest large scale deployments of the LAMP architecture.

Dr. Young also was a founding partner at I/O Ventures, a startup accelerator in San Francisco. He holds a doctorate in EE/CS from the University of California at Berkeley and is a board member of the Berkeley Engineering Fund.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
1
Jim Young has made 1 investments. Their most recent investment was on Oct 13, 2011, when DuckDuckGo raised $3M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Oct 13, 2011 DuckDuckGo Series Unknown $3M Internet Detail