Ben Kong

I find and invest in truly disruptive companies that are seeking technological breakthroughs; big ideas by visionaries starting companies that, if successful, can literally change the world. I back early stage transformative startups in Space, Biotech, Longevity, Web 3, Metaverse, and NFT infra. I've helped fund over 100 early stage companies.

Recent early stage investments include:

-Limited Partner (LP) in Rebel Fund (invest in the best 0.1% of the 16,000 tech startups that apply to each batch of Y Combinator, leveraging YC alumni unicorn founders as GPs and partners to access top YC deals)

- Limited Partner (LP) in The Venture Collective (Early Stage VC focused on Deep Tech)

- Limited Partner (LP) in Type One Ventures (Seed VC Fund targeting New Space startups)

- Limited Partner (LP) in Republic Crypto (Seed VC Crypto Fund focused on Layer 1, Web 3, Gaming, Metaverse)

- Ketkona (mass transit eVTOL)

- New Age Meats (Scalable Cultured Meat)

- SpaceRyde (LEO rocket launch with high altitude balloons)

- LP in SpaceFund (New Space VC)

- Brelyon (Breakthrough visual screen technology, bridging the gap between VR and 3D)

-Cosmic Shielding Corporation (radiation shielding technologies for space suits and satellites)

-Space Forge (Manufacturing semiconductor materials in space with return to earth)

-Voyager Space Holdings (Space holding company & StarLab private space station)

-PlanetIQ (Weather / Climate forecasting from space)

-LYNK (Universal mobile broadband anywhere on the planet to regular cell phones from satellites)

-Axiom Space (worlds first commercial space station)

-Luminous Computing (Photonics chip design)

-Insilico Medicine (World's leading AI Drug discovery company)

-Aegis BioDefence (Pan-Corona DNA-Vaccine and Therapeutics using Breakthrough Genetic Medicine)

-Radian Aerospace ("stealth reusable rocket launch company / reusable space transportation service)

-Swarm (IoT LEO Sat Constellation, acquired by SpaceX)

-TransAstra (Lunar mining / In Space Last Mile Transport)

-Relativity Space (3D rocket printing)

-Orbit Fab (In-Space gas stations)

-SpaceX (Rockets & Telecommunication)

-Volumetric (3D tissue/organ printing)

-Excision BioThereputics (Gene Editing to cure HIV, herpes, and other viral infections)

-OISIN Biotechnologies (Longevity -- extending human lifespan treatments)

-Coinbase (cryptocurrency exchange)

-ZenGo (cryptocurrency wallet)

-Solana (next gen scalable blockchain)

-Algorand (next generation scalable blockchain)

-Arweave (decentralized permanent file storage; funded by USV, a16z).