E313 | Super Angel | Angel investing insights with Leng Lee, co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Oui Therapeutics

Join us as Tom Wilson from Seedcamp and Anthony Danon from Cocoa talk to Leng Lee, angel investor, co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Oui Therapeutics.Leng was previously the first employee at Codecademy where he was the Head of Product, before joining MongoDB as the Director of Product (Cloud). He later spent a year as a Research Fellow at the Columbia University Centre for Anxiety and Related Disorders, developing a virtual reality product for social anxiety.Leng is an Expert-in-Residence at Seedcamp, Europe’s leading seed investor. He is an active angel investor through Seedcamp, and the accelerator program Pioneer, and is an advisor to a number of SaaS companies. He is also on the product advisory board for Cambridge University Press.Go to eu.vc for our core learnings and the full video interview 👀Chapters:00:54 Leng's Journey into Angel Investing01:01 From Academia to Tech: A Career Transition04:16 Expanding Horizons: MongoDB and Beyond05:25 Advising Startups and Navigating the Ecosystem06:22 The Leap into Angel Investing07:23 Learning from Early Investment Experiences09:35 Developing an Investment Philosophy16:11 Evaluating Founders and Startups17:53 Evaluating Founders: The Art of Storytelling18:40 The No-Go Zone: Clarity and Engagement in Pitching19:21 Healthcare Investment Trends and Challenges22:28 Local vs Global: Angel Investing Perspectives23:11 The Dual Life: Balancing U.S. and UK Ventures25:24 Core Learnings from Angel Investing28:30 Supporting Founders: The Angel Investor's Dilemma