The Hatchery - Business and Dot Com Incubator

Art Chang is the founder and CEO of Tipping Point Partners, an angel-stage venture capital firm. Tipping Point Partners is an active partner with the founders of companies that enable the relationship between audiences and their passions, via the Internet and mobile. Tipping Point Partners advises, invests in, and serves in management roles for startup companies and new divisions of established companies. Tipping Point Partners makes connections to business partners and capital and helps facilitate expansion of U.S. Internet and mobile companies in Asia. Current portfolio companies include Haystack Media, a large ad-supported online network for music widgets; Mobile Commons, a mobile information services company that allows customers to design, manage and launch SMS-based marketing, information, and interactive game applications; I Do Now I Don't, a community/auction site for the 53% of Americans whose marriages have ended; PlaySpan, a communications and P2P trading platform for MMORPGs; Casebook, an enterprise social application for social services agencies; and 99Vine, a real estate social network built around a comprehensive listings service. Art also currently serves as the CEO of haystack.com.

Art's career prior to Tipping Point Partners has been focused on the B2B side of consumer-facing industries. Art was a founder or manager in seven start-ups, including hooloo.com, a Chinese music e-commerce site for Chinese-speaking consumers, sold in 2000; and Splendid Television, the boutique television program finance and distribution company behind shows like BBC/A&E's Victoria & Albert and TNT's James Dean. Art has 10 years of experience in venture capital, where he worked on companies that included the Telemedia Accelerator, an incubator for interactive television; Decentrix, a web-based publishing services company; concert.tv, the live music television channel; CRC Jianian, the privatized distribution arm of the Chinese national music agency; IGA Worldwide, the in-game advertising company; and datasynapse, the grid computing company. Years ago, Art was a professionally trained violinist and ended his early architecture career at I.M. Pei's firm. Art has also had significant professional roles in real estate development, government, design and non-profit management. Art serves on the Board of the Brooklyn Public Library and is an active member of Yale's Alumni Admissions Committee. Art lives in Brooklyn.