» Speaker · Davos Catalyst 2027
Esther Wong
Founder and CEO, 3C AGI Partners
Session
Investing in the Physical Layer of AI: Chips, Energy and Compute
Curriculum vitae
Esther Wong is Founder and CEO of 3C AGI Partners, a venture capital firm investing in AI infrastructure: chips, energy and space-based compute. Its portfolio includes Starcloud, which 3C incubated and which put an NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit in 2025, and the biological computing company Cortical Labs.
She spent twenty years in global capital markets, including senior roles at J.P. Morgan, Barclays and CICC, before joining SenseTime as one of its earliest team members and head of strategic investment.
- AI Infrastructure
- Venture Capital
- Compute and Energy
- Space-Based Compute
At Davos Catalyst
At Davos Catalyst, Esther Wong brings an investor's view of the physical layer beneath AI: where chips, energy and compute are heading, and where capital is moving next. Read more on AI infrastructure. Davos Catalyst takes place 22 January 2027 at the Rätia Center, Davos Platz.
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