Marcie Vu
Investor/Advisor in the Tech Sector
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Partnering with founders and teams to build generational technology companies in intelligent consumer and enterprise applications and AI infrastructure. "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were … and ask why not." -JFK, June 1963
Greycroft is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology start-ups and investments in the Internet and mobile markets.
Board Member
2024
Contextual AI's mission is to change the way the world works through artificial intelligence.
Contextual AI offers a pioneering approach to generative AI for the workplace.
Raised $100,000,000.00 from Snowflake Ventures, HSBC Ventures, Conviction Partners, Bezos Expeditions, NVentures, Greycroft, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lip-Bu Tan, Bain Capital Ventures and Recall Capital.
Board Member
2024
Reken is building a new type of AI platform and products to protect against generative AI threats.
Reken is an AI & cybersecurity firm building a new type of AI platform and products to protect against generative AI-enabled fraud.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Firebolt Ventures, Homebrew, Jazz Venture Partners, Greycroft, Omega Venture Partners, Fika Ventures, FPV Ventures, Sequoia Scout, Vishal Vasishth and Gokul Rajaram.
Investor
2024
Coactive AI is writing the next chapter in the Big Data movement with its Multimodal Application Platform for navigating oceans of unstructured data and bringing the full power of analytics to image and video content.
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data.
Raised $44,000,000.00 from Exceptional Capital, Greycroft, Cherryrock Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and Emerson Collective.
Board Member
2022
Blockchain.com is relentlessly building a new financial system for the Internet as a world leading crypto finance house.
Blockchain.com Ventures is a venture fund anchored and supported by Blockchain.com & Lightspeed Venture Partners
Board Member
2021
Scopely's mission is to inspire play, every day. Scopely's acquisition by Savvy Games Group for $4.9Bn was completed on July 12, 2023.
Scopely is an entertainment and video game company that creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games.
Raised $998,500,000.00 from Empede Capital, Maximize Capital, Veligera Capital, Nelstone Ventures and Employee Stock Option Fund.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Our Mission: Inspiring a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first. Nasdaq: TDUP, March 2021
ThredUp is a fashion resale marketplace that enables individuals to buy and sell clothing for women and children.
Raised $304,120,000.00 from Park West Asset Management, Employee Stock Option Fund, Irving Investors and Montauk Ventures.
Advisor
2022 - 2023
Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Partner, Head of Consumer Technology
2013 - 2021
Representative transactions: $28Bn Sale of LinkedIn to Microsoft $4Bn Sale of Honey to PayPal $2.6Bn Sale of OpenTable to Priceline $1.7Bn Sale of Orbitz to Expedia $1.2Bn Sale of Glassdoor to Recruit Holdings $1Bn Sale of Ebates to Rakuten $630MM sale of RetailMeNot to Harland Clarke Holdings $550MM Sale of Shipt to Target Sale of Tubi to FOX $475MM Sale of myfitnesspal to Under Armour Sale of Flurry to Yahoo! Merger of Elance and oDesk (Upwork)
Head of Consumer Internet Banking
2002 - 2013
IDD 40 Under 40, 2010 Representative M&A: $3.7Bn minority buy-out of Expedia by InterActiveCorp $2.3Bn of eBay acquisitions (Gmarket, Internet Auction Co., mobile.de, Rent.com) $1.8Bn sale of CNET to CBS Corporation $1.1Bn sale of Zappos to Amazon (IDD 2009 Technology Deal of the Year) Sale of Tellme to Microsoft $750MM sale of Admob to Google $684MM acquisition of JAMDAT by Electronic Arts $500MM acquisition of Quidsi (Diapers.com) by Amazon $100MM investment into Homestore by Elevation Partners Y9.5Bn sale of Intuit KK to Advantage Partners Representative financings: Facebook $16Bn initial public offering Amazon $3.0Bn investment grade debt IPO Google $1.9Bn initial public offering Google $4.4Bn follow-on offering Alibaba.com $1.5Bn initial public offering SAIC $1.3Bn initial public offering SAIC $300MM debt offering Yandex $1.3Bn initial public offering Zynga $1Bn initial public offering Zynga $593MM follow-on offering LinkedIn $406MM initial public offering LinkedIn $714MM follow-on offering Pandora $235MM initial public offering Green Dot $189MM initial public offering Green Dot $260MM follow-on offering eHealth $80.5M initial public offering Google Transferable Stock Option Program Bloom Energy investment
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.