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Leo Cui

Funding innovative deep-tech startups to improve lives | Harvard Ph.D., MIT postdoc

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2022

    FoundersX Ventures is a cross stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Our investments have strong focus on game-changing technologies in high growth industries, including quantum computing, enterprise SaaS, Fintech, biotech, telehealth, and low-carbon solutions. We are strategic investors, adding values in bringing in global capital and enterprise partners, and access to top engineering talent in Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard and MIT. Our investment team is highly engaging and operation driven. We enjoy empowering daring tech founders to change the world!

  • Venture Capital Fellow | Deep-tech venture

    2020 - 2022

  • Advisory Council

    2024

    Help chart Harvard Business Review’s future direction!

2022

  • Investor

    2022

    Our mission is to make AI radically cheaper. We are the world leaders in algorithm/hardware co-design for artificial intelligence. Our roadmap begins with products 100x better than GPUs and will ultimately deliver products that are many orders of magnitude more cost effective than what is available today. We will ultimately be able to put models the size of ChatGPT into chips the size of a thumbnail.

  • Investor

    2023

    TechBio company decoding the immune system in high resolution to inform therapy and develop diagnostics through the convergence of immune cell sequencing and artificial intelligence. We bring together bright minds from multiple disciplines. We are driven to shorten the timeline from research to real-world human impact. Our motivation is to put science in service of humanity.

  • Investor

    2024

    We sequence proteins. Glyphic Biotechnologies is a biotechnology startup revolutionizing the field of proteomics. While DNA can reveal biological insights, proteins actually tell us what our bodies will do. We are developing a first-of-its-kind, next-generation protein sequencing platform to enable researchers to gain novel insights into biology and disease.

2024

  • Investor

    2024

    Arintra’s medical coding software offers two powerful modes for medical coding: autonomous coding mode and assisted coding mode. In autonomous coding mode, direct-to-billing claims are generated autonomously with high accuracy, streamlining the billing process for healthcare provider organizations. Whereas, assisted coding mode allows medical coders to meticulously review and optimize charges before submission, leading to increased efficiency and precision in the coding process. With Arintra, healthcare provider organizations can rely on precise direct-to-billing claims that include essential codes like E/M levels, CPT, ICD-10, HCC, HCPCS with appropriate modifiers and units. Arintra’s coding solution provides extensive coverage and flexibility, catering to various coding domains such as professional coding, professional-fee coding, facility coding, and inpatient coding.

2023

  • Investor

    2023

    We are a lifesciences products company specializing in building tools and generating insights at the interface of biology, chemistry and engineering. We work extensively in cellular analysis and in understanding how genetic code becomes functional output.

  • Investor

    2022

    Breakthrough medical device company for AD, Dementia, PD and other neural disorders. MIT Spin-off. Raised $70M at B round with remarkable phase II human trial data. Currently in Phase 3 trial.

2023

  • Investor

    2023

    The software tools scientists use today are flawed. Colabra provides companies with an opportunity to build high-performing R&D teams. Colabra is the unified front-end for all R&D data that helps to reveal insights scattered across software and data sources. Our research management software integrates with hundreds of data streams, queries databases with no code, and helps scientists and scientific managers navigate complex experiments. Our enterprise-grade AI Copilot plugs into all your tools and enables a unified R&D environment, helping to monitor project progress, assess risks, devise mitigation strategies, and plan new experiments.

2022

  • Investor

    2022

    Tranch is a B2B Buy Now Pay Later payment method that helps SaaS sellers and professional services providers offer their end-customers the best way to pay large expenses without eating up cashflow, while ensuring they themselves get paid upfront, and faster. Using #OpenBanking on top of advanced credit risk modelling, Tranch offers larger credit lines that are repaid over longer periods, bringing B2B BNPL to the widest possible business customer market. Tranch is backed by leading investors including; Flash Ventures, Global Founders Capital, and Y Combinator. We're based in London and New York.