Ray Wu

Managing Partner - Alumni Ventures AI Fund

2023 - Current

Alumni Ventures is America’s Largest Venture Firm for Individual Investors with Professional-Grade Venture Portfolios - America's Largest Venture Firm for Individuals - Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24) - #1 Most Active US Venture Firm, #3 Globally (PitchBook '22 & '23) - Over 600,000 members from leading US universities including Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Columbia, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. - $1.25B+ raised & 1,300+ portfolio companies since 2014 We provide not only capital, but also community and network! Led investments in AI portfolio: Lambda Labs, Patlytics, Space and Time, Sahara AI, Spice AI, 0g Labs, ChainML Founder Interviews: Sahara AI: https://techoptimist.vc/episodes/47-sahara-ai-tools-to-help-you-own-and-monetize-your-personal-information Space and Time: https://techoptimist.vc/episodes/52-meet-the-start-up-reinventing-patent-work-with-ai Patlytics: https://techoptimist.vc/episodes/52-meet-the-start-up-reinventing-patent-work-with-ai

Founding Managing Partner - Alumni Ventures Web3/Blockchain Fund

2021

Alumni Ventures is America’s Largest Venture Firm for Individual Investors with Professional-Grade Venture Portfolios - America's Largest Venture Firm for Individuals - Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24) - #1 Most Active US Venture Firm, #3 Globally (PitchBook '22 & '23) - Over 600,000 members from leading US universities including Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Columbia, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. - $1.25B+ raised & 1,300+ portfolio companies since 2014 We provide not only capital, but also community and network! Led 50+ investments in AI and Web3 including 0g Labs, Aurora, Babylon Chain, Bitwave, ChainML/Theoriq, ETHSign, Helium, Sahara AI, Space and Time, Pixelynx, Playtron, Upland, Pontem Network, Mythical Games, Mysten...

Mentor

2024

Managing Partner

2008

provide mentoring, interim CxO and consulting services to help startups and fortune 1000 develop innovative business strategy, venture innovation, product management

Global Partner

2013

Focusing on cross-border investments in IoT/Hardware as a Service, Robotics, SaaS, Fintech, Blockchain

Partner & Advisor

2007 - 2010

$1B+ Asia/China focused flexible stage fund

Managing Director

2004 - 2007

Leads HP's New Business Ventures to manage companywide inbound technology evaluation process, drive outbound discovery and analysis for strategic initiatives and M&A opportunities, and work with leading VCs for venture transactions and incubations.

Co-Chair

2004 - 2004

http://www.aamasv.com

Executive

1998 - 2004

- Internal Business Incubator - Corporate investment, M&A, Spinouts - Built a management consulting team across Asia Pacific covering China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Australia

Founder

1993 - 1998

Incubator, Head of product/project management, technology consulting, architecture and development. Worked on e-commerce, infrastructure software, media, insurance, health care and utility projects with top fortune 500 companies across US and Canada - Digital Equipment - IBM - Kaiser Permanente - Medtronic - National Life - Prudential Insurance - Ontario Hydro - ...