Founder @Smart Venture Media | Host @Smart Venture Pod | LinkedIn Top Voices | ex- VC | author No.1 📚 on Amazon VC Category | 56k+ followers | 10M+ impressions / year | Angel Investor | LIVE with a VC/ founder daily

Grace Gong is the founder of Smart Venture Media and the host of two well-known VC podcasts: Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com) and Venture with Grace, a daily show. She is an angel investor in the AI sector, a super angel, and a venture scout for Alumni Ventures. Her podcasts have featured high-profile guests such as C-level executives and VPs from companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Sephora, Dunkin' Donuts, Chipotle, Adidas, Pepsi, Instagram, Deloitte, Reddit, DoorDash, Pinterest, Cisco, NVIDIA, Snowflake and more. Additionally, she has interviewed Managing Partners from top funds, many of whom have appeared on the Forbes Midas List, as well as unicorn founders from companies like Craigslist, Square, Loom, and Glean. Grace regularly posts about technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship and has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance. She is also a #1 Bestselling author in the venture capital category on Amazon New Release. Before founding Smart Venture Media, she worked in venture capital and private equity. If you share her interests, feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn @GraceGong. 2025: 1 million+ impressions on a single video, spoke at AWS, Seattle Startup Summit, event collab w/ various funds. Hosted Smart AI Leadership Summit, Summit SmartVentureMedia.com (10M+ impressions/ yr) 2024: Venture with Grace daily live podcast (top 10%) features top GPs, LPs, execs, and founders. Angel investing in the AI space. Companies/ funds we have worked with including LG, Microsoft, Convivialité Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Amazon AWS, among others. 1.5M+ impressions in 7 days end of 2024. 2023: Spoke at LinkedIn HQ, ads clients: VC funds, startups, big tech. 2022: LinkedIn Top Voice in Finance, LinkedIn's creator accelerator fellow; clients including big tech & unicorn startups, speaking engagements: Dell, Microsoft 2021: CEO of Smart Venture Media (monetized, joined VC fellowship) 2020: Podcast - Smart Venture Podcast (top 1.5% among 3.4M podcasts globally, listeners in 100+ countries) 2019: PE 2018: VC 2017: Book 2 - How To Be A VC (No.1 new release on Amazon VC category; ft. 22 investors on the Forbes Midas List - investors who invested in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Apple, etc) 2016: Book 1 - The Last Key To Success (ft. 21 founders on Forbes 30 under 30) 2014: Master's + PE 2013: UIUC 🤓 svppro.com 🚀 Stay connected: https://linktr.ee/gracegong115 💼 Book an ad on my podcast | Book me to speak at your conference/ events: grace@smartventurepod.com 💰Book to chat with me: https://intro.co/gracegong