Victor Hwang Endowment

Victor W. Hwang is CEO and co-founder of T2 Venture Creation, a Silicon Valley firm that supports entrepreneurial innovation.
A global leader in the venture capital industry, Hwang has mentored hundreds of startup companies. He is part of the Kauffman Fellows Society, an elite network of venture capitalists, and executive director of the Global Innovation Summit, an annual conference that empowers innovators and draws delegates from around the world. Hwang is past president of the Larta Institute, which works to commercialize technology ideas in order to improve lives.

Hwang’s other ventures range from co-founding a water-purification company to authoring books on innovation. He previously worked as an attorney, specializing in corporate, technology, and finance law.

Hwang graduated from Austin’s Westlake High School; he went on to Harvard University, where he studied government and computer science and earned a bachelor’s degree with honors. He obtained his law degree from the Law School of the University of Chicago.