Ning Ma
Angel Squad at Hustle Fund
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, CEO
2023 - Current
AI for healthcare & insurance.
Founder, CEO
2025
AI to help your startup get in front of TechCrunch, Forbes, NYTimes, and 1000's of outlets, without the $30k PR agency.
Investor
2021
Investing in a better tomorrow. Aalo Atomics – modular nuclear fission General Fusion – commercialize nuclear fusion Tactical Edge Systems – on-demand hydrogen fuel gen Cerebras – world's largest and fastest computer chip Neurophos – photonic chips leveraging metamaterials Machina Labs – AI + robotics for manufacturing Gecko Robotics – AI + robotics for maintaining critical infrastructure Kobold Metals – AI for mineral discovery Hologen – AI for drug development Shield AI – build the world’s best AI pilot Anthropic – Hi Claude! Remote – global talent mobility infrastructure Conception Bio – eliminating the biological clock for women SpaceX – make humanity multi-planetary ...
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Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
Commissioner
2024
Senior Care Commission evaluates legislation and social issues relating to the needs of individuals over the age of 60 and make recommendations to the Board of Supervisors through the Children, Seniors and Families committee. Member of Legislative Standing Committee Member of Community Care Standing Committee
Mentor
2022
Angel Squad
2024
Angel Investor
2023
The Council is a consortium of women who are active angel investors.
Artist
2013
Internationally-awarded landscape photographer with footsteps on 30+ countries across 5 continents. Summiter of the tallest peaks in Africa - Kilimanjaro (19,341 ft / 5,895 m), Europe - Elbrus (18,510 ft / 5,642 m), and South America - Aconcagua (22,841 ft / 6,962 m). Followed by ~300,000 fans from around the world. Previous exhibits @ Louvre Museum in Paris, Museum of Flight in Seattle, and Atlanta International Airport. Represented by the TINT Gallery in San Francisco. www.ningmaphoto.com
Head of Data Science
2019 - 2021
Background check unicorn powering the gig economy, backed by $679M from YC, Accel, Coatue, Durable Capital, Bond, Khosla Ventures, IVP, T. Rowe Price, and Fidelity. YC top #14 private company by valuation. Founded the Data Science program at Checkr. Led analytics -> AI. Key initiatives: Checkr Pre, Checkr Analytics, Checkr Fairness Framework, Checkr Data University Key partnerships: Checkr Assess/Positive Adjudication Matrix, J-PAL 2020: Checkr Women's History Month, Honoree 2020: Checkr Hack Week, 2nd Place
Checkr is a software company that automates and speeds up the process of professional background checks.
Raised $678,999,991.00 from Irving Investors.
Head of Data Science
2014 - 2019
Rocket Fuel built AI analogous to those at a low-latency hedge fund, but for programmatic advertising, a market 1000x the number of daily trades executed across NASDAQ and NYSE combined, 125x of Facebook’s daily queries, and 25x of Google’s daily queries. The AI trained over 90 petabytes of data, placed 250 billions of bids per day, and executed with <100 millisecond latency. Data Analyst -> Lead Data Analyst -> Senior Modeler -> Lead Modeler -> Head of Data Science 2017: CEO's "What a Moment" (Impact) Award 4/1000+ employees 2016: Operating at the Edge (Innovation) Award 1/1000+ employees 2016: Spot (Revenue) Award 150/1000+ employees Solo inventor for AI patent on Dynamic Website Content Optimization (Patent #: US 12,354,029), predicting the next webpage to serve instead of the next token.
Rocket Fuel is a programmatic media-buying platform developing artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI in digital media.
Raised $76,600,000.00 from Akkadian Ventures.