Catherine Cheng

Sales Development Representative | Event Planner | Startup Founder | Angel Investor

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Intro

San Francisco, CA, United States

Founder at Climate EOS

Angel Investor at Tardigrade Capital

Studied Management at Indiana University Bloomington

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Joined April 2, 2023

Skills

Languages

Chinese

Advanced

Spanish

Intermediate

About

Charismatic Event Planner & Sales Representative with 3+ years experience helping early-stage startups scale 30% year-over-year revenue growth. - Develop climate curriculum featuring 12 lessons in six months - Organized five city-wide climate events for an audience of 15K+ people during SF Tech Week 2024 - Participated in over 50+ startup funding rounds with two portfolio exits of $7M each in the healthtech sector - Generated and closed new qualified sales leads delivering over $70,000 from 300+ donors - Technical Skills: Eventbrite, Luma, Partiful, Salesforce, HubSpot, Apollo.io, CB Insights, Pitchbook, Crunchbase, PowerSchool, Kahoot!, and Achieve3000 I get excited about opportunities where I'm able to utilize my relationship building skills on collaborative teams at mission-driven companies in the climate tech, healthtech, fintech, edtech, and hospitality + events space.

Experience

Climate EOS

Sep 2024 – Present

San Francisco, CA

Founder

▪ Develop climate curriculum featuring 12 lessons in six months ▪ Present climate curriculum to 3,500 education institutions ▪ Recruit and hire founding team with 20+ years of combined experience ▪ Spearhead startup fundraising campaign for $10K on Kickstarter

Tardigrade Capital

Nov 2019 – Present

Milwaukee, WI

Angel Investor

▪ Manage founder database with 3,000+ startup contacts ▪ Conduct market research and due diligence on 1,200+ startup investment opportunities ▪ Compose 100+ due diligence memos for venture capital review ▪ Participate in over 50+ startup funding rounds with two $7M successful exits to date in the health tech sector

BizStarts

Jun 2019 – Nov 2019

Milwauke, WI

Operations Assistant

▪ Promoted 10+ business sales and customer acquisition events per month ▪ Generated and closed new qualified sales leads delivering over $70,000 from 300+ donors ▪ Grew LinkedIn by 1,000+ followers in six months for nonprofit ▪ Prepared grant research database featuring sales information from 100+ organizations

Education

Indiana University Bloomington

Aug 2011 – May 2015

B.S., Management