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DeepMind engineer and angel investor backing AI and security startups via Ding Ventures
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 41th percentile
- Publicly identified as an angel investor and operator of Ding Ventures, with portfolio companies including Giant.AI and Cala.
- Made at least 2 known investments: Giant.AI and Cala.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active GitHub builder with 131 public repos under @dingelish.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @dingelish identified as Yu Ding's personal account.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account @dingelish has been active since June 2012, over 13 years old.
Investor score
- 62%Probability of being accurate (62%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and operator of Ding Ventures, with portfolio companies including Giant.AI and Cala.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Made at least 2 known investments: Giant.AI and Cala.
What you likely need
You're at a rare inflection point where deep technical credibility in confidential computing meets early-stage investing ambition — the right rooms can accelerate both. Festival events that put you in front of academic spinout founders, AI infrastructure investors, and fellow security-focused angels will sharpen your thesis and surface co-founder or deal-flow opportunities you can't find on LinkedIn. Prioritize gatherings where your SGX/TEE expertise is a conversation-starter, not background noise.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- positioningA confidential computing founder dinner with engineers-turned-founders building on SGX, TDX, and TEEs to pressure-test whether a privacy-preserving AI infrastructure spinout is the right next move for you
- introsA roundtable for IEEE S&P and ACM CCS program committee members who are actively spinning out or advising security and AI research startups, so you can convert your TPC relationships into co-founder and deal-flow pipelines
- tacticalAn AngelList syndicate happy hour for security- and AI-focused angels to compare portfolio construction, co-investment mechanics, and how to formalize a solo fund like Ding Ventures via Form D
- introsA Google DeepMind alumni angel investor dinner to swap notes on sourcing enterprise AI infrastructure deals and building a credible public investment thesis page that attracts inbound founder pitches
- tacticalAn Apache Software Foundation open-source founder office hours session with maintainers of high-star security and infrastructure projects to learn contributor growth tactics you can apply directly to Teaclave
- fundraisingA seed investor dinner focused exclusively on privacy-preserving AI infrastructure, connecting you with Bessemer, a16z crypto, and Unusual Ventures partners who are actively writing checks in the confidential-computing stack
- positioningA build-in-public roundtable for technical founders with strong org-account OSS histories who are migrating contributions to personal GitHub profiles to grow follower counts and co-founder discoverability
- introsA networking night pairing academic security researchers from top-25 CS programs with early-stage angels, specifically for founders spinning out privacy, TEE, or federated-learning companies where your IEEE and ACM credibility opens doors instantly