Vanessa Wang

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Co-founder & COO at Orchard Energy · growth, mobile

Orchard Energy
Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)
7+ years experience
National University of Singapore
English, Mandarin
Raising
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Overview

I started Orchard Energy to fix edtech for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Took Orchard Energy from zero to $4 million ARR. Raised $14 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Canva and Hyundai Motor. Board member at a local non-profit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on education decisions
  • Early customers and design partners
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Paid accelerator offers

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
mobilegrowtheducationcontent
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Series B round open - returns management for farmer cooperatives, 25 enterprise pilots

Stage
Series B
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$586k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
25 enterprise pilots after 23 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

25 enterprise pilots after 23 months. Looking for investors who know robotics and can help with enterprise sales.

Singaporecontenteducationgrowth
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Orchard Energy · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Signed 261 paying customers, 25 of them enterprises.
    • Took Orchard Energy from zero to $7 million ARR.
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
    Canva · 3 yr 4 mo · Contract · Singapore
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 751ms to 165ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 18% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
    Hyundai Motor · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 41% in two quarters.

Projects

Open-source growth toolkit
2025

A small library for edtech that 759 developers star on GitHub.

Side project: a recipe search engine
2022

Built with growth and education. 2360 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. National University of Singapore
    BComp, Business Administration
    2015 - 2019

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