India, Sept. 29 -- The co-founder of a Silicon Valley startup is facing flak from a section of the internet for leaving the company months after her fellow founder suffered injuries in a brutal attack. Peggy Wang took to social media on Friday to announce that she had stepped down as the co-founder of Ego and was launching her own startup.

She mentioned that she remained "incredibly bullish" on Ego co-founder Vishnu Hari - whom she referred to as Vish in her post - and the rest of the team.

Wang did not mention the brutal attack that had left Hari hospitalized. On January 18, the Indian-American tech entrepreneur was found bleeding after being violently attacked in San Francisco. He then spent two weeks in the ICU, recovering from a tra...