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Edward Suh

Founder & Managing Partner at Alpine Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2022

    Supporting early stage founders worldwide. Focused on consumer tech & prosumer/SMB software, particularly businesses with a strong PLG motion. Alpine's portfolio includes Boddle Learning (consumer ed-tech), Entendre (SMB fintech), Block Party (prosumer utility), Bunker (SMB fintech), Browse AI (prosumer utility), Leetify (consumer gaming), OpusClip (prosumer utility), CodeRabbit (dev tool), VXT (SMB vertical software)

2021 - 2022

  • Angel Investor

    2021 - 2022

    Personal investments include: Mio (seed), Kippa (pre-seed), Atmosfy (pre-seed), Power (pre-seed), Pushas (pre-seed), Dr. Treat (seed), Chairman Mom (seed), Clever (Series B), Jelly (pre-seed), Perlego (extension), Jasper.ai (secondary), Ami (pre-seed), Levels Health (Series A)

2015 - 2021

  • Principal

    2015 - 2021

    First and senior-most investment hire during my tenure at the firm. Invested in dozens of companies from seed to growth stages across five funds totaling over $1B. Served on the boards of many of them. Investments led include Monzo, Stash, Everlywell, Photomath, Greenlight, MoMo, Fractional, and Tide.

2013 - 2015

  • Associate

    2013 - 2015

    Associate on Redpoint's early stage investment team focused on consumer tech investments: social apps, marketplaces, digital media, and mobile infrastructure/ad tech. Drove Redpoint's data driven initiatives by developing and managing an internal suite of software tools to uncover early signals of traction from a wide range of public & proprietary data sources

2011 - 2013

  • Head of Business Operations

    2011 - 2013

    Stitcher is the leading independent podcasting app, and was funded by Benchmark, NEA, & New Atlantic Ventures. Acquired by SiriusXM for $325M

2010 - 2011

  • Investment Banking - Tech M&A

    2010 - 2011

    Tech investment banking group focused on large cap M&A in consumer Internet, enterprise software, hardware, semiconductors, and clean tech. Clients I covered include Salesforce, HP, AMD, Juniper Networks, Tencent, and EBay. Advised on 5 transactions ranging from $150 million - $4 billion in exit value.

  • Research Assistant

    2009 - 2010

    Worked as an RA in cognitive research lab while completing MS degree. Co-authored a cognitive science publication on feature-label vs. label-feature learning. http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2011/papers/0678/paper0678.pdf

2009 - 2009

  • Financial Technology Associate

    2009 - 2009

    Quantitative analyst on the Energy derivatives trading desk

2008 - 2008

  • Software Engineer

    2008 - 2008

    One of the first hires on FB's original growth team

2007 - 2007

  • Software Engineer

    2007 - 2007

    Backed by Sequoia Capital & Ram Shriram Acquired by Comcast Reported to VP of Engineering Ryan King, now co-founder and CTO of Chime