Edward Suh
Managing Partner at Alpine Ventures
Edward Suh
Managing Partner at Alpine Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2022 - Current
Supporting early stage founders worldwide. Focused on consumer tech & prosumer/SMB software, particularly businesses with a strong PLG motion. Alpine's portfolio includes Boddle Learning (consumer ed-tech), Entendre (SMB fintech), Block Party (prosumer utility), Bunker (SMB fintech), Browse AI (prosumer utility), Leetify (consumer gaming), OpusClip (prosumer utility), CodeRabbit (dev tool), VXT (SMB vertical software)
Angel Investor
2021 - 2022
Personal investments include: Mio (seed), Kippa (pre-seed), Atmosfy (pre-seed), Power (pre-seed), Pushas (pre-seed), Dr. Treat (seed), Chairman Mom (seed), Clever (Series B), Jelly (pre-seed), Perlego (extension), Jasper.ai (secondary), Ami (pre-seed), Levels Health (Series A)
Principal
2015 - 2021
First and senior-most investment hire during my tenure at the firm. Invested in dozens of companies from seed to growth stages across five funds totaling over $1B. Served on the boards of many of them. Investments led include Monzo, Stash, Everlywell, Photomath, Greenlight, MoMo, Fractional, and Tide.
Associate
2013 - 2015
Associate on Redpoint's early stage investment team focused on consumer tech investments: social apps, marketplaces, digital media, and mobile infrastructure/ad tech. Drove Redpoint's data driven initiatives by developing and managing an internal suite of software tools to uncover early signals of traction from a wide range of public & proprietary data sources
Head of Business Operations
2011 - 2013
Stitcher is the leading independent podcasting app, and was funded by Benchmark, NEA, & New Atlantic Ventures. Acquired by SiriusXM for $325M
Investment Banking - Tech M&A
2010 - 2011
Tech investment banking group focused on large cap M&A in consumer Internet, enterprise software, hardware, semiconductors, and clean tech. Clients I covered include Salesforce, HP, AMD, Juniper Networks, Tencent, and EBay. Advised on 5 transactions ranging from $150 million - $4 billion in exit value.
Research Assistant
2009 - 2010
Worked as an RA in cognitive research lab while completing MS degree. Co-authored a cognitive science publication on feature-label vs. label-feature learning. http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2011/papers/0678/paper0678.pdf
Financial Technology Associate
2009 - 2009
Quantitative analyst on the Energy derivatives trading desk
Software Engineer
2008 - 2008
One of the first hires on FB's original growth team
Software Engineer
2007 - 2007
Backed by Sequoia Capital & Ram Shriram Acquired by Comcast Reported to VP of Engineering Ryan King, now co-founder and CTO of Chime