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Tony Liu

Partner at Costanoa Ventures, Data + AI Infra

San Francisco, California

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $3,500,000.00

Skills

Python
R
Java
C++
Data Analysis
Programming
C
Matlab
Teamwork
Machine Learning
SQL
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Big Data
Product Management

Education

Investments

OpenPipe

Seed

Total Funding: $7M

Delphina

Seed

Total Funding: $8M

Earthmover

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Sync Computing

Series A

Total Funding: $18M

Rerun

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Outerbounds

Seed

Total Funding: $25M

Coiled

Seed

Total Funding: $26M

Mem

Seed

Total Funding: $6M

Jitsu

Seed

Total Funding: $33M

Work Experience

Costanoa Ventures

2019

  • Partner

    2022

    Invested in Coiled (seed), Delphina (seed), Earthmover (pre-seed), Feldera (seed), Outerbounds (seed), Prefix.dev (seed), Rerun (seed), Sync Computing (series A), Million.dev (pre-seed), Fixify (seed), OpenPipe (seed), Textualize (pre-seed)

  • Principal

    2019 - 2022

Databricks

2018 - 2019

  • Product Manager

    2018 - 2019

    ML Workspace, Koalas

Expo

2017 - 2018

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2018

Turo

2016 - 2017

  • Data Scientist

    2016 - 2017

    Developed first ID fraud model. Reduced rate of ID fraud by 60% and stolen cars by 50% in first three months.

Amazon

2015 - 2015

  • Software Engineering Intern, Core Search Ranking

    2015 - 2015

Stanford Graduate School of Business

2013 - 2015

  • Sports Research Analyst

    2013 - 2015

Statistics Department, Stanford University

2014 - 2014

  • ML Research Program

    2014 - 2014

    Tested predictive power of existing heuristics for basketball player valuation. Built ML models that significantly reduced error rate with a novel aggregation approach to basketball possession data.

HBO

2014 - 2014

  • Technical Consultant

    2014 - 2014

    Received end credit in season 2 of Silicon Valley.