James Wu
Investor at First Round Capital
James Wu
Investor at First Round Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Infrastructure & AI Investor
2022 - Current
Investing in and supporting early stage AI, data, dev tools, and security companies. Joined as the first dedicated Infrastructure & AI investor to lead First Round's sector-specific expertise.
Lead ML Scientist
2021 - 2022
Led production ML project to build new prediction models and feature engineering pipeline into AmpIQ product. Coauthored patent (filed) and research paper for customer lifetime value modeling.
Cofounder & CEO
2018 - 2021
B2B SaaS startup growing machine learning teams from hiring to productivity with the first online code editor for ML ("Replit for ML"). $2.5m raised. Built in Seattle Top 50 Startups to Watch 2020.
Freestyle Engineering Fellow
2017 - 2018
Worked as a SWE at portco Adstage (acq by TapClicks), assisted diligence, sourcing, industry research.
Machine Learning Researcher
2016 - 2018
Worked on three publications/projects: -Survey of machine learning techniques in resource-constrained scenarios (Prof. Cynthia Rudin) -Integrated system for private access to large-scale, confidential data (Prof. Jerry Reiter) -Low-memory signal processing on IOT devices (Prof. Peter Hoff)
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
2015 - 2018
Research incubator spinout from Duke awarded $1.6m Dept of Defense MINERVA grant. Built Hermes, an AI-powered computational security and simulation tool. Assembled and ran development team and contributed to multiple grants and publications. First engineer on the team -> Lead MLE.