| Marcus Yang | |
| Birth Place: | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
| Nationality: | Republic of China (Taiwan) |
| Occupation: | President at Amaryllo Inc. Member at Band of Angels (investors) Advisor at SUM.vc |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, Los Angeles (BS) UC Berkeley (MS) |
Chao-Tung Marcus Yang is an entrepreneur and investor born in Taiwan. He is a member of the Band of Angels, the first high technology specific angel investment group in the United States.[1] He and Mr. Garrett Gilbertson started Band of Angles Los Angeles Special Interest Group in early 2019.[2] The Band reviews more than 1,000 deals per year. In 2021 the Band invested in 24 startups. He also serves as an advisor at Startup Mavericks Ventures. [3]
Yang was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) majoring in Electrical Engineering and received MSEE from UC Berkeley majoring in wireless communication IC design.[4] He was President and CEO at MStar Semiconductor USA. MStar is world’s number-one TV and LCD monitor IC design company with 4,000 employees worldwide.[5] MStar went public (TSE: 3697) and valued at $6B in Taiwan in 2010.[6] Company later merged with its nemesis MediaTek forming world’s top 3 IC design company in 2012.[7]
He founded KeyStone Semiconductor in 2009 and led the company engineering teams to develop the first single-chip FM/DAB/DAB+ receiver IC published at 2010 ESSCIRC.[8] Mr. Yang founded Amaryllo Inc. in 2012 [9] and introduced world’s first Skype certified IP cameras with military grade 256-bit encryption at Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA) 2013.[10] He invented and filed patents on the embedded auto-tracking security camera employing computer vision. The first standalone auto-tracking security cameras were introduced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and won the best innovation award at CES 2015 under embedded technology category.[11] Amaryllo won another CES Best Innovation Award under Smart Cities category in 2018 CES.[12]
Mr. Yang was the 2017 Taiwan Most Outstanding Entrepreneur Award winner [13] and served as Taiwan's National Data Security Review Committee in 2017. He had been honored by Taiwan Presidents 6 times from 2015 to 2020.[14] He enjoys technology innovation and has filed over 100 patents worldwide.