Rebeca Hwang is Kalei’s founder and General Partner. Born in South Korea and raised in Argentina, she contributes with her experience as an innovator and inventor, founder and entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, educator and ecosystem builder, with engineering degrees and doctoral work from MIT and Stanford. Rebeca co-founded Rivet Ventures - an early-stage Venture Capital Fund based in San Francisco - and YouNoodle, a start-up competition platform originally backed by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, and Charles Lho, a Korean angel investor. She teaches Tech Entrepreneurship at Stanford and has taught at Tec de Monterrey for half a decade. She co-founded CleanTech Open (now the largest cleantech competition in the US) and the Startup Nations Summit. Rebeca was an advisor for Startup Peru, co-chair of The Mexico-U.S. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Council with INADEM, advisor to SFactory in Chile for female entrepreneurs, and created and led the program Kofounders with support from the agency of the Korean government, KISED. Rebeca has advised several startup ecosystem development programs, including initiatives in Malaysia, South Korea, Spain, Iceland, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Singapore. Rebeca's investment career was based on finding overlooked opportunities and in finding contrarian investment roadmaps: by creating a female-market focused VC she built a portfolio of more than 20 startups in Silicon Valley, including Hooked, Dote and Ritual. Her background is a perfect fit for this joint Fund, with insider understanding of both Korea and Latin America and 20 years of building her network in the tech community of Silicon Valley.