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Ching-Yu Hu

Founder + Investor

Menlo Park, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Series A Board Director

    2022 - 2024

    Stealth enterprise software company in the sales tech space started by Tracy Young and Ralph Gootee (ex-founders of Plangrid which they scaled from 0-$100M in ARR in 8 years, then acquired by Autodesk for $875M).

  • Observer, Board of Directors

    2020 - 2024

    15Five is an end-to-end performance management and engagement platform that helps employees achieve their fully potential.

  • Series B Investor

    2020 - 2024

    Observe.AI is a leader in the Contact Center AI space that is bringing the power of agent assistance, automatic speech recognition, and NLP to modern contact centers.

  • Series C Investor

    2020 - 2024

    Skydio is the leading U.S. drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight.

  • Observer, Board of Directors

    2019 - 2024

    Avidbots designs, builds, and deploys a fleet of autonomous floor-cleaning robots and a software management layer for airports, hospitals, industrial warehouses, and schools.

  • Series B Investor

    2018 - 2024

    Verkada builds cloud-connected enterprise security camera systems to keep businesses, cities, and schools safe.

  • Series B Investor

    2018 - 2024

    Yellowbrick builds high-performance data warehouse platforms for hybrid cloud that are 30x smaller and up to 140x faster than legacy solutions.

  • Series D Investor

    2018 - 2024

    Sila is pioneering high energy density silicon-based battery materials to enable lighter, safer, longer-lasting batteries for portable electronics and mass adoption of electric vehicles.

  • Partner

    2018 - 2024

    Next47 is a global $2B venture capital fund leading Series A-C rounds in enterprise software, developer/infrastructure, AI/ML, and frontier tech startups.

  • Sequoia Scout

    2017 - 2018

    Seed funded AvidSecure (AI-based cloud security analytics). Was acquired by Sophos (LSE: SOPH) in 2019. Good overview of the Scout program here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/a-peek-inside-sequoia-capitals-low-flying-wide-reaching-scout-program/

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