Ming Yong

Imagineapp.co Generative AI content platform | Founder of MediaPipe | Angel Investor

Mountain View, California, United States

About

Founder of Google MediaPipe (https://mediapipe.dev) - One of the most popular top 5 after tensorflow, pytorch open source ML related projects in the world. Angel investor in US and China startups. Area include: Robotics 3D depth camera [Photoneo], Gaming [Arts Craft Entertainment], Education [Fun academy China, Littlebits (exit)], Autonomous vehicles data labeling services [Deepen AI] Crypto investor (LP in China/US crypto seed fund Univalue associates) Prior experience in Google Search, Content Creation Ecosystem and product lead for Admob mobile video Ads. Startup Founder. Spent 6+ years in China internet space Areas of focus: Machine learning and machine perception, Open Source, consumer apps focus on content Languages: Golang, Python, C++, Java

Experience

  • Founder at Imagineapp.co
    Nov 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Imagineapp (https://imagineapp.co) AI content generation - Helping creators like musicians and social media creators create engaging videos. Interested folks can ping me on [email protected] or twitter https://twitter.com/realmgyong

  • Investor (pre-seed to series A, B) at Angel Investor and Scout
    2015 - Present · 11 yrs 7 mos

    Sectors: Machine learning, Fintech, Crypto, Gaming, Creator Economy - Entourage (pre-seed): Angelist for musicians - Republic (series B) - Sepion technology - Baubap YC S21: Smart microloan for everyone - Genesis Digital Assets (late stage) - Kraken (late stage) - ChannelMeter (pre-A): Payment for creator economy - Photoneo (series A): 3D depth sensor & robotics - Deepen AI (seed): Autonomous vehicle data labeling - Univalue associates: early stage crypto fund invested (bybit, harmony, dfinity, etc) - Arts Craft Entertainment (seed): gaming - Fun academy China (series A): education - Littlebits (series B - exit): education I also act as scout for a few B2B, fintech B2C and crypto funds. If you have an interesting startup where I can be helpful, please feel free to contact me at [email protected]

  • Google (10 yrs 10 mos)
    • Lead Product Manager for MediaPipe
      Jan 2019 - Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Led the open sourcing of key Google Research infrastructure software [used in many top Google products like YouTube, Google Meet, Nest cam, Google Home, Cloud Vision/Video intelligence API etc.] for machine learning inference of streaming data like video/audio as https://mediapipe.dev. Grew open source community from zero to global top 10 machine learning related github projects in 2 years. MediaPipe is underlying technology for YouTube ContentID platform that powers the digital fingerprinting of every audio and video content on the YouTube Platform

    • Product Manager, Content Creation Search
      May 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Created incubation lab called Mobile Content labs of 5+ engineers within Search. Experimented with early stage ideas in the content creation area ranging from short video, images and audio. Role required ideation from first principles (market research, UX sprints), understanding the spectrum of technology within Google like machine learning and applying in interesting ways

    • Product Manager
      Jun 2014 - Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Was lead PM for Admob Mobile Video interstitial Ad format based in China working with 8+ engineers and dotted line to Mountain View. Grew business from low ARR $XXmil by 8x within 2+ years with over 10+ ad format launches.

  • CEO & Founder at Socialwok
    Mar 2009 - Feb 2011 · 2 yrs

    Socialwok is a leading project management and team collaboration web service for businesses and organizations. We help organizations share and collaborate on ideas, messages, files and Google Docs on web and mobile (iPhone & Android). People often call us "Facebook for Business on Google Apps" http://socialwok.com/media Covered on Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, ZDNet etc Award: Techcrunch TC50 Demopit Winner, Frost Sullivan 2010 APAC Innovation Award Enterprise Collaboration

  • CEO & Founder at Voiceroute
    May 2007 - Feb 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Voiceroute http://www.voiceroute.org is the sponsor behind the world's leading Open Source Unified Communications project, Druid and Socialwok.com. Druid provides Unified Communications with features like plug and play IP telephony, Instant Messaging, mobile phone, faxing and other communications media in an easy to deploy and useful platform. Over 350 customers including Fortune 1000 enterprises, Singapore Government BCA as well as medium and small businesses.