About

I'm an early-stage venture investor at Leadout Capital, an early-stage fund investing across all categories of software and software-enabled businesses. I am especially inspired by visionary founders who see the world differently and are committed to transforming their ideas into reality, reshaping how the world thinks about something in a completely new way.

On a personal level, I was born in the Midwest and grew up in Asia during the early days of the internet boom. Seeing and living across two of the largest tech ecosystems in the world motivates me to seek founders looking to solve problems on a global scale.

Before Leadout, I built security/compliance automation tools at Thoropass (fka. Laika), helped grow the developer platform and apps ecosystem at Rippling, and started my career as a founding investor of Olive Capital, an early-stage deep-tech fund that spun out of ZhenFund.

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Portfolio

Some of my Leadout investments include: Creatify, Expo, First Bite, Latii, and more.

On the side, I also write small checks into friends companies, including Paraform, Lemi.bot, Vellum, Prospect, and Ego.

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  Expo  
Series A, 2022
  Liferaft  
Seed+, 2023
  First Bite  
Pre-seed, 2023


Personal Investments:

  Vellum  
Seed (lead undisclosed), 2023
  Deeptune  
Seed led by 776, 2023
  Paraform  
Seed led by A*, 2024
  KabCash  
Pre-seed led by Neo, 2022
  Prospect  
Seed led by Construct Capital, 2024
  Lemi Bot  
Seed (lead undisclosed), 2024
  Scout Cities  
Pre-seed F&F round, 2024
  Ego  
Seed led by Patron, 2024
  Aomni  
Seed (lead undisclosed), 2024
  Codedex  
Pre-seed (lead undisclosed), 2024

Dion Dong

Venture Investor at Leadout Capital