RL

Raymond Liao

Venture Capitalist

Mountain View, California

Overview

Work Experience

SN

Samsung NEXT

  • Founding Managing Director

    2012 - Current

    Founding MD of Samsung Electronics' early-stage CVC for the Mobile, Networks and Consumer Electronics divisions. • Portfolio exits: Leonardo, MosaicML, FreedomFi, Volterra, AST SpaceMobile, Swiftly, Dataguise, Packet, nuTonomy, DeltaID, EyeVerify. • Thesis-driven investments seeding Samsung BUs into new business. • Selective AI portcos: LiquidAI, Perplexity, H, Harmonic, Stability AI, DynamoAI, Vectara, CleanLab, • Selective Intelligent Machines portcos: FieldAI, Figure, Apptronik, 1X, EKA, VSim, KIND • Selective edge computing portcos: Fermyon, Synadia, Packet, Volterra, Tetrate, AST SpaceMobile, Rezilion, Anadot. • Selective blockchain portcos: ZettaBlock, SaharaAI, Pi2.network, Chaos Lab, MetaBlox, PADO Labs, Dapper Labs, Theta Labs, ZenGo, Forte, Alchemy • Selected security portcos: ProtectAI, Protopia, StellarCyber, ForAllSecure, Zimperium, Dataguise, Intezer, Rezilion

FA

Field AI

  • Investor

    2024

C

CentML

  • Investor

    2024

P

Perplexity

  • Investor

    2024

F

Figure

  • Investor

    2024

LA

Liquid AI

  • Investor

    2023

SA

Stability AI

  • Investor

    2022

O

OXIO

  • Investor

    2022

Sa

Space and Time

  • Investor

    2022

E

Expeto™

  • Investor

    2022

Education

Investments

Liquid AI

Seed

Total Funding: $44M

Kind Humanoid

Pre Seed

Total Funding:

ZEDEDA

Series B

Total Funding: $150M

Stellar Cyber

Series B

Total Funding: $67M

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