Ching-Yu Hu
Founder + Investor
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/