Jackie Yang
Co-Founder and Managing Director
TransLink Capital

 Jackie Yang is a co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital. He brought over 10 years of venture investment experience to the team and was one of the most active investors in the semiconductor industry during that period. Jackie is responsible for TransLink's investments in Montage, WinKing, Sandforce and LensVector.

Before starting TransLink, Jackie was the Senior Vice President at UMC Capital and was responsible for UMC's investment activities in the United States and China. During his tenure at UMC Capital, he was the founding investor in Maxlinear, Inc.(NYSE: MXL), Montage Technology Group and Parade Technologies, Ltd., and served on the board of Praesagus (acquired by Cadence Design Sysems), WisChip (acquired by Micronas), Triscend (acquired by Xilinx), ForteMedia, Aicent, Inc., and Aurora Systems (acquired by OmniVision Technologies).  He was also responsible for other portfolio companies including Silicon Wave Inc. (accquired by RF Micro Devices), Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRD), and Intellon Corporation (NASDAQ: ITLN, acquired by Atheros).

Jackie started his venture career at InveStar Capital in 1996, where he specialized in semiconductor and telecommunication companies. He was actively involved in InveStar U.S. portfolio companies including AltiGen Communications (NASDAQ: ATGN), Centillium Communications (NASDAQ: CTLM), Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL), Sage, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAGI, merged with Genesis Microchip-NASDAQ: GNSS), and Advanced Analogic Technologies (NASDAQ:AATI).

Jackie received his MBA degree from University of Missouri - Columbia and BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Tsinghua University - Taiwan.