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25+ years spanning private equity, venture capital, and high-growth companies. Global operator. Active angel investor. Sequoia Scout.
Don Hoang is an experienced operator and investor with 25+ years spanning private equity, venture capital, and high-growth companies. He has held executive roles at two of the world's most recognised technology companies — Uber and Revolut — and served on the Investment Committee at Atomico, one of Europe's leading venture and growth equity funds, where he helped raise and deploy a $1.24bn fund.
Based between London, San Francisco, and operating globally, Don brings a rare combination of operational depth and investment breadth — having been a founder-facing operator, an institutional investor, and an angel, giving him a perspective on company building that spans every stage of the lifecycle.
At Revolut, Don served as VP of Global Business — one of the most senior operator roles at a company that became Europe's most valuable private startup. He oversaw growth, profitability, product, sales, partnerships, and capital markets across Revolut's global operations.
Joining as an early executive, Don helped shape Revolut's international expansion strategy and internal operating model through the period that saw the company reach a $75bn valuation. The pace of product development at Revolut — and what made it possible — remains one of the clearest examples he draws on when advising founders about scaling with speed.
At Uber, Don led the company's international rollout across 45 countries — one of the most ambitious geographic expansion programmes in technology history. He raised $3.5bn in growth capital, executed $4bn in M&A, and managed a P&L north of $100m.
Scaling Uber across radically different markets — navigating regulatory environments, building local teams, and maintaining strategic coherence across dozens of geographies — gave Don a ground-level understanding of what international expansion actually requires, as opposed to what it looks like on paper.
Don is a Sequoia Scout, identifying and backing high-potential startups worldwide. He also invests independently as an angel, with 50+ early-stage investments ranking in the top 5% of angels by performance (Cambridge Associates benchmark).
His investing focus sits at the intersection of AI, fintech, and companies with genuine international ambition. He brings particular value to founders navigating early internationalisation, regulatory complexity, or the transition from product-market fit to scaled operations.
Previously, Don was a Partner and Investment Committee member at Atomico ($1.24bn Fund) — one of Europe's leading technology investment firms — where he was responsible for deal origination, execution, and portfolio support.
Don serves on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School, one of the world's leading institutions for business education. He is actively engaged in advising founders and leadership teams on growth, operations, fundraising, and international expansion.
Don holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from UCLA — two institutions that shaped an approach to business grounded in rigour and long-term thinking.
Don writes about the things he knows from direct experience: scaling companies, international expansion, AI and emerging technology, and what it takes to build organisations that endure.