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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Total Funding: $6M
Total Funding: $13M
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Total Funding: $24M
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Total Funding: $2.2M
Total Funding: $6M
Total Funding: $7M
2022
Firsthand.vc is a “Salesforce mafia” VC fund. We invest in ambitious founders who are building the future of B2B from the earliest stage.
2016
2016
I invest personally in startups that are not within the scope of Firsthand Alliance. I also invest in some funds as an LP. Highlighted personal portfolio: - Caper - AI self-checkout shopping carts (Acq by Instacart) - Indus.ai - construction intelligence (Acq by Procore) - Brightback - an automated subscription retention service (Acq by Chargebee) - Lawyaw - legal document automation (Acq by Clio) - Hummingbot - open-source crypto trading software - HomeCourt - an app that uses AI to record and track basketball shots, makes, misses, and location - Carta - company ownership management platform - Smith.ai - a receptionist service for live calls & website chat and other companies still in stealth mode. Select Web3: - OpenSea - Kraken - LikerLand Select funds: - Pantera Capital - Soma Capital - Animal Capital - 500 Global
2019 - 2021
2019 - 2021
I'm excited to work with Shasta Ventures part-time as a Venture Partner to support entrepreneurs and further develop the firm's focus on smart enterprise software.
2020 - 2021
2020 - 2021
Actively investing in early-stage startups globally.
2013 - 2019
PredictionIO is a machine learning server. It empowers developers to build predictive engines and deploy them as scalable web services in a fraction of the time. The open source version of PredictionIO is ranked by Github as the most popular Apache Spark-based ML projects in the world. Acquired by Salesforce in Feb 2016. Built up the Einstein Platform product team after joining Salesforce. Initiated and launched AI-related platform products.
2006 - 2010
2006 - 2010
Created two popular social networking sites: 1. WaZhua -- an online VR entertainment world. Pioneered China's live digital DJs and Karaoke market. 2. CityIN -- a networking site for professionals. Developed face-recognition technology for photo-tagging, QR code service for users to scan up to 1000 Chinese characters of data from the site into their mobile phones and a real-time learning recommendation engine. Acquired Moochi, a Tsinghua University spin-off company, which developed an online video editing platform for the China market. Managed a 50-people company in Guangzhou and Beijing.
2004 - 2006
2004 - 2006
Established the online career social networking. Powered by social graph recommendation and NLP for automated resume matching.
2003 - 2004
2003 - 2004
Established a tutor-student matching platform. Operated 6 profitable SAT preparation centers under the name Elite1600.
2002 - 2004
2002 - 2004
Developed the intelligent Financial Advisor for mutual fund recommendation.