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).
TigerEye is a SAAS company that offers AI powered business simulation engine for strategic sales planning and execution.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Initialized Capital, Next47, Pioneer Fund and Y Combinator.
Observer, Board of Directors
2020 - 2024
15Five is an end-to-end performance management and engagement platform that helps employees achieve their fully potential.
15Five is the strategic performance management platform that drives action and impact, helping businesses and their people thrive.
Raised $94,100,000.00 from ServiceNow.
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.
Observe.AI is a conversational intelligence platform for contact centers.
Raised $214,020,000.00 from Next47, Emergent Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, Scale Venture Partners, Steadview Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Zoom, NGP Capital and Carya Venture Partners.
Series C Investor
2020 - 2024
Skydio is the leading U.S. drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight.
Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Raised $740,000,000.00 from KDDI, Axon, Linse Capital, Linse Capital, Hercules Capital, Axon, Andreessen Horowitz, DoCoMo Capital, Next47 and UP Partners.
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.
Verkada is a cloud-based physical security platform provider helping enterprises operate safer, smarter buildings.
Raised $444,299,996.00 from Felicis, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alkeon Capital, Section Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Friends & Family Capital, Quiet Capital, Sequoia Capital, Linse Capital and Felicis.
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.
Yellowbrick Data empowers companies to make faster decisions with all of their data.
Raised $248,000,000.00 from Citadel, Threshold, DFJ Growth, Next47, Third Point Ventures, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, Third Point Ventures and BMW i Ventures.
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.
Next47 invests in groundbreaking enterprise entrepreneurs and accelerates revenue growth by opening doors to customers around the world.
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/
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.