# Danica Tang

> Agentic Systems & Early-Stage Venture | UC Berkeley CS

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danicatang

I work at the intersection of early-stage venture, applied AI, and technical product engineering. My background spans NSF-funded research on multi-agent systems and human-centered AI at UC Berkeley; sourcing, diligence, and founder evaluation at Soma Capital and V11; and software engineering at PayPal and various pre-seed to series A startups. 

Across SCET and Berkeley’s founder ecosystem, I’ve advised dozens of founders & technical teams from defining the problem to building and launching MVP, launched  partnerships with venture firms, served on the executive team of VCIC, Innovators-in-Residence at Cal, SCET Fellows, Soma Capital, V11 and other programs, and ideated/hosted inaugural large-scale events such as the SCET AI & Innovation Summit and Venture Catalyst Forum.

I’m focused on applied AI, agentic commerce, and helping teams building durable products from zero to one. Always open to thoughtful conversations.

## Work Experience
### Venture Partner @ V11
Jan 2025 – Present

### Fellow @ Comma Capital
Jan 2026 – Present

### SCET Alumni Association Founding Board Member @ UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET)
Jan 2025 – Present

### SCET Fellows Lead @ UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Innovators-in-Residence Lead @ UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States
Published Research: https://doi.org/10.33423/jsis.v19i2.7195 

Hosted and curated weekly EIR speaker events and founder meetups, bi-weekly founder/VC events and 4+ large scale events such as the Berkeley Venture Catalyst Forum and AI Summit. Advising Berkeley entrepreneurs in our unique incubator-like 'challenge lab' experience classrooms.

### Instructor & Course Coordinator @ UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Instructed several startup & engineering courses over 2 years, coached 13+ founding teams in weekly hands-on lab sessions; Awarded 2025 SCET Innovation Education Champion.

- ENGIN194E: Innovators in Residence (DeCal Instructor)
- ENGIN183E: Tech Entrepreneurship (Course Coordinator)
- ENGIN183C: Designing Startups to Transform Society (Course Coordinator)

### Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2025 – Present
Building backend/API for core services and next-generation agentic API layers across PayPal’s commerce ecosystem.

### Venture Scout @ Soma Capital
Jan 2024 – Present
$1B AUM fund; backed 30+ unicorns;

Investment Thesis:
https://blog.somacap.app/story/ai-beyond-the-hype-strategic-investment-for-transformational-growth

### AI Sector Research Lead @ Soma Capital
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Led Application-layer AI research; sourcing & due diligence across technical founders, autonomous systems, AI verticals, and deep-tech markets.
Contributed to investment theses and weekly blogs & newsletters for frontier workflows and agentic systems.

### Tinkering @ Various Companies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026
dev and GTM work with various startups (ranging from consumer, human data, voice-agent, to ai-agents); investing & coaching

### Agentic AI Research @ UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Research on autonomous systems and multi-agent architectures. NSF work exploring real-world deployment constraints of agentic AI.

- NSF Epixego Agentic AI Software Development & Research
- CS294/194-196: Agentic AI; CS294/194-280 Advanced Large Language Model Agents

### Venture Capital @ VCIC (Venture Capital Investment Competition)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Youngest Judge for MBA-level Berkeley Competition; Prev. Exec Team, Judges & Partnerships Lead for the world’s largest student VC competition

### Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Core service API development

### Behavioral Analytics & Human-Centered AI Researcher @ University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Berkeley Operations & Behavioral Analytics Lab; Human-Centered AI for Sequential Decision-Making

### Software Engineer @ Berkeley Codeology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Built software with a small, tight-knit engineering group working on client projects.
Shipped features for early-stage startups and contributed to consulting work for larger clients

### Software Engineer @ Typeless
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
startup acquired


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

### UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society

### High School Diploma
York School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danica-t
- Portfolio: https://danicat.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-10