JW

James Wu

Infrastructure & AI/ML Investor at First Round Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $12,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $3,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Infrastructure & AI Investor

    2022

    Investing in and supporting early stage AI, data, dev tools, and security companies. Joined as the first dedicated Infrastructure & AI investor to lead First Round's sector-specific expertise.

2021 - 2022

  • Lead ML Scientist

    2021 - 2022

    Led production ML project to build new prediction models and feature engineering pipeline into AmpIQ product. Coauthored patent (filed) and research paper for customer lifetime value modeling.

  • Cofounder & CEO

    2018 - 2021

    B2B SaaS startup growing machine learning teams from hiring to productivity with the first online code editor for ML ("Replit for ML"). $2.5m raised. Built in Seattle Top 50 Startups to Watch 2020.

2017 - 2018

  • Freestyle Engineering Fellow

    2017 - 2018

    Worked as a SWE at portco Adstage (acq by TapClicks), assisted diligence, sourcing, industry research.

2016 - 2018

  • Machine Learning Researcher

    2016 - 2018

    Worked on three publications/projects: -Survey of machine learning techniques in resource-constrained scenarios (Prof. Cynthia Rudin) -Integrated system for private access to large-scale, confidential data (Prof. Jerry Reiter) -Low-memory signal processing on IOT devices (Prof. Peter Hoff)

  • Lead Machine Learning Engineer

    2015 - 2018

    Research incubator spinout from Duke awarded $1.6m Dept of Defense MINERVA grant. Built Hermes, an AI-powered computational security and simulation tool. Assembled and ran development team and contributed to multiple grants and publications. First engineer on the team -> Lead MLE.