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Austin Chung

Investor at Capital One

United States

Overview 

Austin Chung is a seasoned Venture Capital professional with a strong background in technology, having worked at notable companies like Capital One, Google, Tesla, and Intel. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Chung's career highlights include roles in growth strategy at Pulley, venture capital at Jump Capital and Touchdown Ventures, and experience in AI and supercomputing at Tesla and NVIDIA, showcasing a diverse and impactful career in the tech and investment sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Venture Capital

    2024 - Current

    Investing and supporting companies in cyber, AI, infra, and fintech -- early stage and growth equity

Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.

Raised $954,000,000.00 from Berkshire Hathaway.

  • Growth Strategy

    2023 - 2023

    Series B SaaS company building equity management software. Backed by YC, Founders Fund, 8VC. Led top-of-house growth strategy for vertical expansion

Pulley is a developer of cap table management, communications hub, and fundraising modeling platforms to manage equity for startups.

Raised $50,150,000.00 from Founders Fund, Jack Altman, Elad Gil, Stripe, La Famiglia, Avichal Garg and Sherwin Gandhi.

  • Venture Capital

    2022 - 2022

    Early stage, thesis-led venture capital firm specializing in Seed and Series A investments

Jump Capital is a thesis-led, sector-focused, and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed/Series A.

  • Venture Capital

    2020 - 2022

    Venture capital firm managing $1B+ in assets for large corporate venture LPs

Touchdown Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that partners with corporations to invest in early and growth-stage companies.

  • Startup Accelerator

    2019 - 2019

    Go-to-market and product strategy for Google-backed startups in emerging markets

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Autopilot AI Team

    2018 - 2018

    Autopilot Intern - systems and autopilot algorithms

Tesla Motors is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides electric cars, solar, and renewable energy solutions.

Raised $19,374,213,101.00 from European Union, PennDOT, Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.

  • Deep Learning Team - SATURN V DGX supercomputing cluster

    2018 - 2018

    Deep learning research intern - distributed deep learning

NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.

Raised $4,095,000,000.00 from ARPA-E and DARPA.

  • Wolfram Alpha Product Team

    2017 - 2017

    Product Engineering Intern - Wolfram Cloud and Alpha

  • Core Infrastructure - Bare Metal and Networking Team

    2017 - 2017

    Systems intern - scalable database architecture

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.

Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.

  • High Performance Computing Team

    2016 - 2017

    ML research intern - ML systems performance

An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.

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