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
Principal
Eric is a Principal 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 revenue. 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
Operating Partner
Charlie is an Operating Partner at Bling Capital and former YC alumnus. As an angel, he has backed a handful of unicorn companies.
Charlie is focused on SaaS, enterprise, marketplace, and consumer health deals.
At Bling Capital, Charlie works closely with all of our portfolio companies and is also a member of the investment team focusing on SaaS, Enterprise, Consumer, Defense Tech, and Frontier Tech. Charlie is responsible for onboarding portfolio companies into our playbooks, managing our founder and venture capital community, and running our Series A program. He also serves as Board Observer of Hermeus, Somewear Labs, and NuBrakes.
Ash Panchang
Senior Associate
Ash is a Senior Associate at Bling Capital, where he focuses on opportunities in consumer, SaaS, and fintech.
Previously, Ash was the Director of Operations at Burrow where he scaled CX, supply chain, and business operations to support hypergrowth. Prior to that, he was responsible for supply chain analytics at Peloton, improving last-mile distribution, inventory management, and revenue recognition ahead of the IPO. Before Peloton, Ash helped Blue Apron gain a deeper understanding of its customers while also scaling its CX operations through the IPO.
Over the course of his career, Ash has built proprietary sourcing tools for market private equity teams, leveraged alternative datasets to to support public investing at Viking Global and led a team of student investors through the MBA Fund to support entrepreneurs at their earliest stages.