Sam Huang

Long before Calvin Chin began deploying venture capital into frontier technology startups, he was peeling snow peas and washing dishes in the back of his family’s Chinese restaurant in downtown Detroit. Today, as Managing Partner at E14 Fund, Chin draws a direct line between the quiet discipline of small-business stewardship and the high-stakes world of deep tech investing. In a wide-ranging conversation with Asian Tech Collective, Chin walks us through his kinetic path from Yale indie rocker an

Keven Wang, CEO of UnitX, shares his journey from arriving in the U.S. as a high school exchange student to building AI vision systems for factories around the world. In this conversation, he reflects on the influence of his parents, the lessons he learned from early startup attempts, and why ambition, persistence, and respect for the people who make physical products continue to shape his work.

We sit down with Steven Hong — co-founder of Kumu and Oculii, the AI radar and perception company acquired by Ambarella for $400 million — for a candid look at the path that took him from an academic childhood in Ohio to building and exiting deep-tech companies at the frontier of AI and autonomous systems. Hong reflects on the early influence of growing up as the son of an electrical engineering professor, the pivotal moments that pulled