Investment
Team
Ben Ling
General Partner
Ben is the Founder and General Partner of Bling Capital. He has backed 19 "unicorn" billion dollar companies, with the best yet to come.
Previously, Ben was a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health businesses. There, he led investments in Wattpad, Tapingo, Gitlab, True Accord, Webflow, among many others.
Kyle Lui
General Partner
Kyle is a General Partner at Bling Capital. He has backed 7 “unicorn” companies across SaaS, consumer internet, digital health, and fintech.
Previously, Kyle was a Partner at DCM where led early stage US investments including DocSend (acq. by Dropbox), TravelBank (acq. by US Bank), Wrike (acq. by Citrix), Hims & Hers (NYSE: HIMS), Shift (Nasdaq: SFT) and Tapingo (acq. by GrubHub). He also served as a board member or observer of SoFi (Nasdaq: SOFI), Matterport (Nasdaq: MTTR), BitTorrent (acq. by Tron), Mendel.ai, Fountain, Eaze and Tempo. Given the global focus of DCM, Kyle has extensive experience partnering with startups in Asia. He is also an angel investor in Elemy, All Day Kitchens, Blank Street and Atom Computing.
Eric Theis
Investor
Eric is an investor at Bling Capital, where he focuses on opportunities in SaaS, data products, marketplaces, and automation.
Previously, Eric was a senior software engineer at Flexport where he built marketplace, finance, and payments products which grew to support multiple billions of dollars in transactions. Prior to that, he built software at Barefoot Networks (acq: Intel) for the 6.5 Tb/s and 12.8 Tb/s generations of reprogrammable switches for software-defined networking.
Charlie Pinto
Principal
Charlie is a Principal at Bling Capital and a Y Combinator alumnus. Charlie is also a Program Manager at Google and an angel investor.
Charlie is focused on SaaS, enterprise, marketplace, and consumer health deals.
At Google, Charlie led operations for Google Domains, scaling product market fit, and also leads a group inside the CIO organization that builds and procures Enterprise technologies.
Ankur Pansari
Principal
Ankur is the Founder and General Partner of Divide by Zero and Principal at Bling Capital.
He’s an angel investor in over forty companies with two becoming unicorns. His portfolio includes Carta, Philz Coffee, Wealthfront, Periscope Data (acquired), Lever, Memsql, Pillow (acquired), and dozens more.
During his career, Ankur has founded numerous companies: An angel investment fund. A real estate business with properties featured on national television (and more in development). Artillery, an unsuccessful gaming platform where he raised over $11m and sold part of the company to a top 5 Internet company. An importing company called Favo that he sold in 2010. A social networking company in 2003 that got obliterated by Facebook. There’s probably some more also.
Ruchi Pandya
Investor
Ruchi is an Investor at Bling Capital, where she focuses on consumer, SaaS, data product, marketplaces, and healthtech deals.
At Adobe, she led the Data Science and Enterprise ML team for Adobe Analytics and Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe's flagship analytics platforms. She and her team built database, personalization, and financial monitoring products to help the Analytics business grow and developed patent-pending ML infrastructure for the future of personalized marketing ops.
Charles Yu
Principal
Charles is a Principal at Bling Capital, where he focuses on consumer, SaaS, and fintech deals.
Prior, Charles was an investment associate at TI Platform Management (Trusted Insight), where he helped launch the firm’s growth stage investment program and was also an investor on the fund of funds side. Earlier in his career, he worked at Manhattan Venture Partners, New York Angels, and Bowery Capital where he led due diligence in technology companies from seed to pre-IPO stage.