Weng Motors - AngelList

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Weng Motors is creating a ridiculously low cost, safe, friendly way to get people from where they are to Where Everyone Needs to Go. Our mobility HotSpots bring together the first electric vehicle dedicated to local, a fleet management platform, and a social booking system for campuses, communities and individuals.
30% of US car trips are less than 5 miles. By focusing on local, our HotSpots can produce mobility by the mile, everything included, for less than just gas in traditional cars.

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Trip Vest

Aerospace Engineering, Physics at MIT. ME/design at Stanford. Trip is a builder. Worked on power electronics system at Tesla Motors
John Stanfield

Graduate from Stanford program in design. Founder twice (once in auto space) w/ exit. Rappelled out of helicopter for 15 years to fight forest fires
Clement Gires

Graduate from Stanford and Ecole Polytechnique, France. Built a 1000mpg car and flying wind turbines. Served in the French high altitude alpine rescue unit
Arnaud CAVAILHEZ

Graduate from Ecole Polytechnique, France. Software architect for three start-ups. Co-founder of locomote.to. Strong mobile background.
Michaël Javault

Co-founder, Isokron. Expertise in software and mechatronics. 5 years of experience in IT security at Ernst&Young. Graduate from EFREI, France
Toby Gillies

15 years of experience, Audi. Heavy hand on the design of Audi TT and Q-series SUV. Art Center College of Design graduate.

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Safa Rashtchy

Active observer/investor of key internet/consumer trends globally. Most recently MD, Sr. Internet analyst and the Lead China analyst at Piper Jaffray and Co.
Eric Chen

Founder at Uj Ventures (Seed Fund) Partner Equilibrium Investments (Real Estate Fund) Venture Partner at WI Harper (US-China VC) Co-founder Tiny Prints
Jeff Schox

Patent Attorney. Mentor at 500Startups and RockHealth. Professor at Stanford and UMichigan. Early investor in Twilio, Bubbli, and Massive Health.
Dave Crowder

Venture Capitalist
Kevin Henrikson

Early Zimbra engineering team member. Now lead Zimbra R&D at VMware. Interest in SaaS, Internet Publishing, Ad Networks, Communications/Email, and Enterprise.
Oussama Ammar

Just another Entrepreneur
Ray Wu

Entrepreneur, angel investor. Venture Partner of 2 China funds. Used to run HP Ventures, and Cisco Software Investment, M&A
Lemnos Labs

We provide seed investment, mentorship and encouragement to talented engineers with innovative ideas and a passion for making things.
Lightspeed Ventures Summer Grant

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Michael Dearing

Founder at Harrison Metal
Jeff Schox

Patent Attorney. Mentor at 500Startups and RockHealth. Professor at Stanford and UMichigan. Early investor in Twilio, Bubbli, and Massive Health.
Dave Lyons

Founder, 10 years startup experience, 12th employee, director of engineering Tesla Motors. Stanford GSB, MIT, Stanford Mechanical Engineering
Eric O'Brien

Managing Director at Fall Line Capital
Mart Bailey

Owner, Callaway Private Equity Partners

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Trip Vest

Employee Number One at Weng Motors
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Eric Chen

Founder at Uj Ventures (Seed Fund) Partner Equilibrium Investments (Real Estate Fund) Venture Partner at WI Harper (US-China VC) Co-founder Tiny Prints

“First prototype is rolling. Starting a pilot program with our software in SF. New offices Bluxome street.”

3 months ago

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Jeff Schox I had the pleasure of seeing both the demo car and demo software yesterday. It is absolutely amazing to see what they have accomplished in so little time and on so little money.

2 months ago

Dave Crowder Just visited with the team at Lemnos and Techshop in SF and continue to be blown away by what the Weng team has accomplished in just a few months and on a very limited budget. In my almost 20 years in the Valley, I have never seen a team working on a product with a hardware component get so much done on time and on (minimal) budget. Even if you have no interest in this type of company, you should check... more

2 months ago

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