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)
Alpine Venture Capital operates as a venture capital firm that supports seed stage founders worldwide.
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.
Goodwater Genesis seeks out exceptional entrepreneurs and helps them cultivate the success they deserve.
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
Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
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
Stitcher, Inc. develops Stitcher, a mobile application for news and shows.
Raised $19,099,997.00 from New Enterprise Associates, PROOF, Ronald Conway and Benchmark.
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.
The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.
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
Citadel is one of the world's leading alternative investment firms,pursuing long-term returns for preeminent public and private institutions
Raised $40,472.00 from Northstar Ventures.
Software Engineer
2008 - 2008
One of the first hires on FB's original growth team
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
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
Plaxo is an internet company that works and specializes in important problems in the consumer Web space, pioneering the “smart address book.
Raised $28,300,000.00 from KG Investments.