Rich Wong

Director-Stanford Venture Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rich Wong

Rich Wong

Director-Stanford Venture Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Overview
Career Highlights

Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group

RelSci Relationships

8218

Number of Boards

26

Birthday

1969

Age

52

Number of Awards

5
Relationships
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Ryan Joseph Sweeney

General Partner at Accel Partners LLC

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Andrew G. Braccia

Partner at Accel Partners LLC

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Sameer K. Gandhi

Partner at Accel Partners LLC

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Scott Farquhar

Co-Founder at Atlassian Corp. Plc

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Michael Cannon-Brookes

Co-Chief Executive Officer & Director at Atlassian Corp. Plc

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Ping Li

Partner at Accel Partners LLC

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Arthur C. Patterson

Co-Founder at Accel Partners LLC

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Yuval Shachar

Co-Founder at Qwilt, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Michael Chan

Co-Founder at Nextbit Systems, Inc.

Relationship likelihood: Strong

Tom Moss

Co-Founder at Nextbit Systems, Inc.

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In The News
Business Wire
March 18, 2021
UiPath Appoints DocuSign CEO Dan Springer to its Board of Directors; SaaS industry veteran joins seasoned executives that support UiPath as businesses prepare for the fully automated enterprise
The New York Times
March 12, 2021
Investors Eye Landscape Post-Covid
The New York Times
August 11, 2020
Start-Ups Girded for Crash, But Many Learned to Adapt
RelSci
June 29, 2020
Rich Wong is no longer serving in their board position at National Venture Capital Association
PR Newswire
April 8, 2020
No-Code Workflow Builder Process Street Raises $12m Series A Led By Accel For Its Checklist Software; This announcement has been covered on Business Insider, Crunchbase, and Forbes. No-Code workflow builder Process Street raises $12m Series A for its chec
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Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai
Blinken Arrives In Afghanistan After Biden Announces Troop Withdrawal - npr.org
Bernie Madoff
Nearly Ruined by Madoff, the Mets Managed to Move On - The New York Times
Bill Crothers
UK cronyism watchdog queries civil servant's dual job - Associated Press
Emmanuel Macron
French lawmakers to vote on highly criticized security bill - Associated Press
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Threat to Ukraine Is Seen As Russia Masses Troops - The New York Times
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Rich Wong
Director-Stanford Venture Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Family Members
Sibling
William T. Wong
Managing Director at Cancer Commons

Cancer Commons aims to provide patients and their physicians with the knowledge needed to select the best available therapies and trials, and to continuously update that knowledge based on each patient’s response.

Education
Masters in Management
Class of 1992
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs, as well as non-degree executive education. Its largest program is its full-time MBA, which is one of the most selective in the world, with students from more than 60 countries every year, and ranked #1 in more subjects than any other MBA program.

BS Materials Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific, engineering, and technological education and research. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the institute used a polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction. MIT was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934.

Memberships
Founder and Chair
Current
Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group

To develop and foster adoption of anti-abuse best practices and industry collaboration relating to messaging, malware and mobile anti-abuse based on published papers, technical white paper and committee work.

Career History
Executive Officer, Director
2014 - Current
Accel Management Co., Inc.

General Partner
2006 - Current
Accel Partners LLC

Accel Partners invests in companies located in the US, the United Kingdom, Europe and Israel. The firm targets companies operating in the fields of cloud/SaaS, consumer, enterprise IT, fintech, hardware, healthcare, media, security and services. It provides financing for seed, early, later and growth stage capital requirement.

Accel, Partner
Current
Servicechannel.Com, Inc.

Servicechannel.Com, Inc. provides web-based solutions. Its solutions include explore by topic, explore by industry and ingear analytics. The firm evolved their products to the cloud, initially offering retail and restaurant chains online access to a comprehensive database of service information and performance metrics. The company has locations in Albertson, Brooklyn, London and New York. Servicechannel.Com was founded by Steven Gottfried and Serge Lubensky in 1999 and is headquartered in Albertson, NY.

Boards & Committees
Executive Officer, Director
Current
Accel Management Co., Inc.

Director
Prior - 2014
GetJar Networks Ltd.

GetJar Networks Ltd. develops mobile applications. It operates an open mobile application store content directly to consumers. The company was founded on August 22, 2007 and is headquartered in Crowthorne, the United Kingdom.

Director
2012 - 2014
Dealer Dot Com, Inc.

Dealer Dot Com, Inc. designs and develops websites and web-based business management tools for the automotive industry. Its products include advertising, websites, managed services and certified services. The company was founded by Mark Bonfigli, Richard Gibbs and Michael Lane in 1998 and is headquartered in Burlington, VT.

Member, Board of Directors
Current
MIT/Stanford Venture Lab

Political Donations
$2,000
2012
VenturePAC

$1,818
2011
VenturePAC

$2,222
2010
VenturePAC

Transactions
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Microsoft Corporation purchases TouchType Ltd. from Accel Partners LLC, Octopus Ventures Ltd., Cambridge Capital Ltd., Index Ventures SA

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Accel XII LP raised money in a private placement transaction

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Accel Growth Fund II Strategic Partners LP raised money in a private placement transaction

Investments
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GetJar, Inc.

GetJar, Inc. provides mobile phone software applications. It offers new app recommendations for customer every day and gives free upgrades and unlocks in favorite apps and games. The company has offices in Lithuania, the United Kingdom and the United States. GetJar was founded by Ilja Laursas in January 2004 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Public Holdings
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Awards & Honors
Rank #66
2015
Forbes Magazine - The Midas List
Rank #24
2014
Forbes Magazine - The Midas List
Rank #86
2013
Forbes Magazine - The Midas List
Events
Speaker
Cavallo Point-San Francisco, CA
2014 Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit

The program will look at the hunt for the future of money, mobile, design and the technologies that are reshaping industries

Speaker
San Francisco, CA, United States
2012 TechCrunch Disrupt (San Francisco)

Speaker
Aspen, CO, United States
2012 Fortune Brainstorm TECH

Conference for the global leaders of the digital world

Other Affiliations

Rich Wong is affiliated with Accel Management Co., Inc., Accel Partners LLC, Servicechannel.Com, Inc., EDV Management Co., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Accel Partners & Co., Inc., Accel XII LP, Accel XI LP, Accel XII Strategic Partners LP, GetJar, Inc., Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, Openwave Mobility, Inc., Forest Investments, Inc., MegaPath Group, Inc., Covad Communications Group, Inc., McKinsey & Co., Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., CTIA - The Wireless Association, AirWatch LLC, Three Laws Mobility, Inc., Accel Growth Fund II LP, Accel Growth Fund II Strategic Partners LP, Accel XI Strategic Partners LP, Accel Management Co., Inc., GetJar Networks Ltd., Dealer Dot Com, Inc., AdMob, Inc., MIT/Stanford Venture Lab

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