Angela Strange

From 2000 to 2003, Strange worked as a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting in Toronto.⁠[1]

Strange won the women’s race in 2:45:46 and repeated the victory the following year in 2:46:22.⁠[2]

Strange wrote cases at Stanford GSB in 2005–2006. The school’s 2005 case on Bausch & Lomb’s sales-force reorganization lists her as a co-author.⁠[1][3]

Strange served as a senior associate partner until June 2008, focusing on seed-to-Series-A consumer-internet investments.⁠[1][4]

She helped launch and led Bay Partners’ AppFactory, which offered accelerated funding for Facebook applications.⁠[1][4]

Strange became director of product management and business development at travel-guide and review website Ruba.com.⁠[1][5]

Strange helped launch C100 and served as co-chair and a board member from 2009 to 2020, connecting Canadian entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley.⁠[1][6][7]

In May 2010, Ruba’s team joined Google.⁠[8]

Strange remained a Google product manager until November 2014, overseeing Chrome Mobile’s vision, features and ongoing development, and launching its Android and iOS versions.⁠[1][6][9]

Google released Chrome for iPhone and iPad in an announcement signed by Strange and her team.⁠[10]

Strange joined Andreessen Horowitz and went on to invest in fintech.⁠[1][6]

Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau named Strange to a 14-member advisory council. She served until March 2018.⁠[5][1]

a16z announced Strange’s promotion to general partner. Alex RampellAlex RampellAlex Rampell (Alastair Rampell) is an entrepreneur and investor, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and leader of its Apps practice. He co-founded TrialPay and Affirm and serves on the boards of Wise and Rocket Companies.Open the full entry’s appointment essay highlighted her fintech investing, product-management experience and relationships with founders.⁠[6]

At the a16z Summit, Strange argued that financial infrastructure offered as a service would lower barriers to launching financial products and let more companies earn financial-services revenue. An abridged presentation was published on January 21, 2020; it expressed her view of the industry’s development.⁠[11]

Strange discussed mortgage origination, servicing and modernization with Tim Mayopoulos, Mike Yu and Andrew WangAndrew WangAndrew Wang is a fintech entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Valon. Trained in computer science at Harvard, he worked at Goldman Sachs and Soros Fund Management before starting Valon in 2019 to build mortgage-servicing software.Open the full entry.⁠[12]

Strange and Joe Schmidt jointly announced a16z’s lead investment in FurtherAI’s Series A, discussing AI for insurance documents, underwriting and claims workflows.⁠[13]

Strange and Gabriel VasquezGabriel VasquezGabriel Vasquez is an investment partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he focuses on AI application investments and spearheads the firm’s global investment strategy; he is based in New York. Before joining a16z, he was part of the pricing strategy team at Oscar Health and a technology investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan, and he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.Open the full entry argued that founders connected to both their home markets and Silicon Valley could gain advantages in customers, talent and experience. They emphasized knowledge-sharing and mutual support within founder communities.⁠[14]

Strange trained professionally as a distance runner for two years, won several marathons and reached a seventh-place national ranking in Canada.⁠[5]

Her current investment focus includes AI applications, fintech and insurance. She serves on the boards of Addi, Cygnvs, hyperexponential, Jeeves, Moov, Sardine, Valon and Vesta.⁠[9]

Angela Strange: X: https://x.com/astrange (opens in a new window); LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelastrange/ (opens in a new window).⁠[15][16]

Andreessen Horowitz: Official website: https://a16z.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[9]

Google: Official website: https://www.google.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[10]

C100: Official website: https://thec100.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[7]