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Yichen Feng

October 19, 2023

Yichen Feng is a business builder, educator, and finance professional with over 14 years of experience mobilizing resources to solve hard problems and create beautiful things. She has developed a wide-ranging toolset that includes starting a public primary school in Hayward, California, advising tech companies like Yahoo! and Snap at Goldman Sachs, co-founding a small-batch tea company, and most recently as a private equity investor in ed tech and future of work companies, and many other pursuits that integrate the personal and professional. 

She current advises and serves on several Investment Committees and Boards, including the Kachuwa Impact Fund, SK2Fund, the HeadStarter Network, and is working on a new venture. 

Yichen currently lives between Oakland and Los Angeles. She spent her formative years split between Shanghai, China where she was born and the multicultural and working class communities of East Los Angeles.  

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