The Team
We have invested in 25 unicorns at early stages and been executives at the world's most valuable companies.
Ben Ling
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
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 (Pre) Seed 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).
Eric Theis
Eric is a Partner 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.
Charlie Pinto
Charlie is a Partner at Bling Capital, leading operations and platform. He is a YC alumnus. He has backed 5 “unicorn” companies across AI and frontier tech. Charlie is focused on AI, frontier tech, defense tech, enterprise, marketplace, and consumer hardware. At Bling Capital, Charlie works closely with all of our portfolio companies.
Ash Panchang
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.
Lukas Mack
Lukas is an Investor at Bling Capital, where he focuses on opportunities in vertical AI, fintech, and consumer tech. Previously, Lukas was a Product Owner in Bank of America's Global Payments group, where he supported business operations and helped manage a B2B payment platform. Prior to that, he worked at Loeb Enterprises, splitting his time between the fund and its portfolio company, Mercato, where he focused on optimizing subscription plans and last-mile delivery.