The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
B.S. in Economics — Major in Accounting and Finance, Minor in Japanese
GPA 3.98 / 4.00. Joseph Wharton Scholars Honors Program.
Background
Education
Experience
Architect Partners
Investment Banking Term Analyst
Digital assets M&A execution and market insights.
[Disclosed Involvement] Polygon Labs Acquires Coinme (Combined $250M+) — Co-authored Press
Dark Alpha Capital
Private Equity Summer Analyst
Lower middle-market industrials screening, valuation and due diligence.
Cyclop SpaceTech
Venture Capital Spring Analyst
Early-stage space technology venture research and brokerage.
Venture Shares
Private Capital Markets Analyst
Private direct investments valuation and Asia-based LP communication.
Extracurricular
Wharton Asia Investments
Energy & Industrials Investment Analyst
Wharton Undergraduate Statistics Society
Machine Learning Research Analyst
Skills
Languages: Mandarin, English, and Korean (native), Japanese (conversational).
Technical: Python, C++, MySQL, financial databases, Microsoft Office.
Projects
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Crypto Public Comparables Live Tracker
2026
A live dashboard tracking listed digital-asset-related companies. Curated the peer set, selected appropriate trading multiples for each name, and maintained an evolving dataset of comparables, performance, and valuation metrics. Built and maintained at Architect Partners.
M&A Insights
Selected alerts authored at Architect Partners, 2025 – present.
- Payward to Acquire Reap for up to $600M May 2026
- Bullish Acquires Equiniti for $4.2B May 2026
- Kraken’s Parent Payward to Acquire Bitnomial for $550M Apr 2026
- Mastercard Acquires BVNK for up to $1.8B Mar 2026
- Nakamoto Acquires BTC Inc and UTXO Management to Build a Diversified Bitcoin Operating Portfolio Feb 2026
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Coinme Acquired by Polygon Labs to Build Its Open Money Stack
Jan 2026
Signed M&A press release — Architect Partners served as Coinme’s exclusive financial advisor.
- Ripple Acquires GTreasury for $1.0B Oct 2025
- Strive Acquires Semler Scientific for $1.42B in All-Stock Transaction Sep 2025
Equity Research
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HEICO Corporation — Long Thesis
Spring 2025
[PDF]
[Model]
Wharton Asia Investments, Energy & Industrials coverage. Market-mispricing thesis on aftermarket aerospace parts.
Selected Writing
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The Rise and Fall of Digital Asset Treasuries
2026
[English]
[中文]
A retrospective on the DAT phenomenon and where it goes from here.
Contact
Email (general): donyang@wharton.upenn.edu
Email (Architect Partners): dong@architectpartners.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dongyng