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Shawn Kung

Silicon Valley Angel/VC Investor, 2x operator startups ($300M exit, $3B IPO)

San Francisco Bay Area

VC
Angel
Investor
Advisor

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Mentoring
Team Mentoring
SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Cloud Computing
Product Management
Strategy
Distributed Systems
Agile Methodologies
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Product Marketing
Big Data
Analytics
Go-to-market Strategy
Competitive Analysis
Start-ups
Virtualization
Storage
Data Center
NAS

Education

Lists including Shawn

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All Series A Investors

14752 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

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Ex and current Meta employees who invest

296 people

Investments

ParadeDB

Seed

Total Funding:

Work Experience

LA
LucidCloud Advisors

2009

  • Angel & Advisor

    2009

    Strategic Advisor and/or angel in Silicon Valley pre-IPO startups - Facebook (IPO 2012), Zuora (IPO 2018), Bitfusion (acquired by VMware 2019), Cohesity, Pinecone, Neon.tech, Motherduck, Vectara, Omni Analytics, Ventrilo.ai, Armory.io, Lead IQ, Moesif, Ampool, Bouncer, Fogbender (YC W22), Open Raven, Visla, CloudEagle (YC W22), Redcoat AI, ParadeDB (YC S23), Middleware, Nova AI, InQuery, and more. Also 2 exits as a Product operator - Aster Data (Seed to $300M acquisition), Tenable (post Series B to $3B Nasdaq IPO). Current focus areas: B2B SaaS, AI / Deep Learning GenAI LLMs, Big Data and Analytics, Infrastructure / DevOps, Cyber Security software. Mentor or angel at Y Combinator (YC), 500 Startups, Alchemist, GSVLabs / Google Launchpad, Techcode, Cardinal Ventures, Fitz Gate Ventures. Created GIT1K and Founders Club, a with over 5000+ startup founders, mentors, and angels/investors to support early stage entrepreneurship. Personal: https://lucidcloud.wixsite.com/home Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shawn-kung AngelList: https://angel.co/shawn-kung Twitter: https://twitter.com/shawnykung @shawnykung

SU
Stanford University

2019

  • Adjunct Lecturer

    2019

    BUS 248: Venture Startup Formation Stanford Continuing Studies

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GIT1K

2022

  • Co-Creator & Moderator

    2022

    Global Information Technology 1000 community of business operators - tech leaders, founders, angels/investors, advisors. GIT1K members include tech-driven IT, Engineering, Data, and Cybersecurity operational and thought leaders at startups, growth-stage, and Fortune 1000 companies. We have a common passion & interest in investing in tech stocks, startups, real estate, crypto, and sharing ideas & trends among our community members. Join here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LEnAMV5hsfQ4VpY4YeKCRZ

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Pinecone (formerly HyperCube)

2019

  • Advisor

    2019

    Rockstar ex Amazon (AWS), Facebook, Google founding team

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Neon @neondatabase

2022

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

    Rockstar ex-MemSQL / SingleStore founding team

C
Cohesity

2013

  • Advisor

    2013

    Advisor (2013-2015)

M
MotherDuck

2022

  • Angel - Syndicate Lead

    2022

V
Vectara

2022

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

    Rockstar ex-Cloudera and Google founding team

O
Omni

2022

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

    Rockstar ex-Looker / Google founding team

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Facebook

2011

  • Investor

    2011

    IPO (2012, $100 Billion)