Eric Zhou

Investor and Family Office Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Eric Zhou is a VC and Family Office Investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a strong track record of investments in early-stage startups. He has held key roles at Gopher Asset, Allocate, Tome, and has invested in notable companies like UiPath and Epic Games. Zhou's career highlights include managing director roles, extensive experience in financial analysis and modeling, and a focus on investing in Series A and Series B stages, particularly in the Enterprise sector and San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director

    2019 - Current

  • Investor

    2023

  • Investor

    2023

Tome radically changes the way sales teams get deals done, with custom LLMs that assist reps throughout every stage of the sales process.

Raised $75,300,000.00 from Audacious Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Greylock, Bipul Sinha, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eric Schmidt, Coatue, 8VC, David Luan and Emad Mostaque.

  • Investor

    2021

Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.

Raised $157,400,000.00 from Yield Capital, Richard Branson, DVC, NVIDIA, Initialized Capital, Jeff Bezos, Solasta Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, Prometheus Capital and Gopher Asset Management.

  • Investor

    2020

    NYSE: PATH IPO'd in April 2021

UiPath is a software company that designs and develops robotic process automation and artificial intelligence applications.

Raised $1,993,025,000.00 from Turkgen Ventures.

  • Investor

    2020

Epic Games is an interactive entertainment company that develops games and offers its game engine technology to other developers.

Raised $7,860,000,000.00 from IPOSharks, BCS Capital, E1 Ventures, Stableton Financial, Bracket Capital and Christian Edler.

  • Investor

    2021

  • Investor

    2020

  • Investor

    2020

Netskope is an IT firm that specializes in real-time security, stopping threats, protecting data, and network management services.

Raised $1,441,100,000.00 from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Morgan Stanley, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and CPP Investments.

  • Angel Investor

    2022 - 2024

    Acquired by Grubmarket

Butter is a software and e-commerce platform that develops a food system for wholesalers and distributors.

Raised $9,000,000.00 from Gradient, Notation Capital, Jack Altman, Collide Capital and Uncommon Capital.

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