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Rajan Goyal

Co-Founder & CEO

Rajan Goyal

Co-Founder & CEO

Rajan has always been a champion of an idea and has successfully driven multiple products from inception to multi-billion $ revenue. Before founding DataPelago, Rajan served as the CTO of Fungible.

Rajan built an elite engineering organization that pioneered hardware-software co-design and contributed to the architecture of DPU, a de facto third computing socket in the data centers alongside CPU & GPU.

Before Fungible, he led the architecture team in Cavium’s CTO department as Distinguished Engineer, where he helped define domain specific accelerators for Cavium’s flagship OCTEON family of multi-core processors.

Rajan’s experience includes leadership and management roles at Cisco & Oracle, with a strong background in networking and data systems. Rajan is a prolific innovator with 150+ patents issued and pending.

Rajan received a Bachelors’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India, and a Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Susan Lior

Founding Partner, Eclipse Ventures

Susan Lior

Founding Partner, Eclipse Ventures

Lior is an investor, entrepreneur, and the Founder and Managing Partner of Eclipse Ventures. He is passionate about building groundbreaking technology companies.

In 2008, Lior joined his brother to help build Intucell, a pioneer in the software-defined networking space for global telecommunications networks. After four years, Cisco acquired the company. Following the acquisition, Lior joined Flex, a multinational manufacturing leader, where he led the hardware investment platform, Lab IX.

In late 2014, Lior began to build Eclipse – a venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs rearchitecting the industries that are critical to people’s lives and national economies. Lior currently works with Bright Machines, Augury, Owlet, Forge, and other companies pursuing big ideas.

As a board member, he has helped companies move from zero to one, and from pitch deck to public offering. A relentless optimist with a passion for company building, Lior believes that the world needs a new economy – and wants to help the best entrepreneurs build it.

Cheng Wu

General Partner of Tech Fund, Taiwania Capital

Cheng Wu

General Partner of Tech Fund, Taiwania Capital

Cheng is a successful serial entrepreneur and well-acclaimed industry veteran, having founded and led numerous businesses spanning a range of different industries.

His entrepreneurship began in 1995. He founded Arris Networks, a startup that developed high- density Internet access products that was acquired by Cascade Communications for $217M in May 1996. In 1997 he founded ArrowPoint Communications, where he served as CEO, leading the company to a successful IPO and was acquired by Cisco Systems for US$5.7 billion in 2000. Through this acquisition, he joined Cisco Systems and held various positions, including Group VP. In 2002, he founded Acopia Networks with US$65M and was acquired by F5 Networks for US$210M in 2007. In the same year, Wu founded Azuki Systems with US$6M specializing in broadband wireless multimedia data transfer software, which was subsequently acquired by Ericsson for US$100M in February 2014.

Mr. Wu has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from ChiaoTung University, Taiwan (1972, BS), and a master's degree in computer science from Indiana University in 1977.

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