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Oliver Hsu
Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
New York, New York
Overview
Oliver Hsu is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz in New York, specializing in startups, venture capital, hiring, organizational design, and business operations. With a background as an Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and experience as Chief of Staff at Mos, Hsu has developed expertise in strategic investments and operational leadership.
Work Experience
Investment Partner
2022 - Current
Investing in American Dynamism. Working with companies like Hadrian, Kaizen Labs, Odyssey, Senra Systems, Upsmith, ZeroMark, and others unannounced. Investment interests include emerging platforms (robotics, spatial computing, novel interfaces), computing for the physical world (autonomy, simulation, CV etc), and industrial applications (software-defined manufacturing, autonomous systems, etc).
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Venture Fellow
2021 - 2022
Seed and pre-seed investing.
Susa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing primarily in seed rounds.
Chief of Staff
2021 - 2022
Mos is a consumer software company advancing the education financing system, backed by Sequoia, Tiger Global, Lux Capital and more. Worked on business operations, executive hiring, and special projects. Wrote Mos' culture guide.
Product & Operations
2020 - 2021
Early employee taking new products 0-1. Worked across product, engineering, customer support, vendor management, platform partnerships, and more.
Mos offers financial solutions that feature checking accounts, debit cards, and access to financial aid advisors designed for students.
Raised $57,300,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital), Tiger Global Management, Expa, Lux Capital, Khaled Helioui and Emerson Collective.
Partnerships, Founding Team
2020 - 2021
Helped build a nonprofit fintech product to enable distribution of gift card value for essential goods.
Gift Card Bank collects donations of gift cards for essentials and match them to the people who need them.
Strategy & Analytics
2019 - 2020
Consumer fintech company focused on credit building products.
Aura is a financial service company that provides affordable, credit-building loans to working families.
Raised $584,700,000.00 from Bridge Bank, Varadero Capital and Angel Island Capital.
Projects
2018 - 2018
Andela's mission is to connect brilliance with opportunity.
Raised $381,005,800.00 from Generation Investment Management, Spark Capital, Golden Palm Investments, Whale Rock Capital Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Sweetwater Capital Partners.
Intern
2017 - 2017