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Raymond Liao

Venture Capitalist

Mountain View, California

Overview 

Raymond Liao is a Venture Capitalist based in Mountain View, California, with a Ph.D. in Engineering from Columbia University. He has notable experience as the Founding Managing Director at Samsung NEXT and has made strategic investments in various successful companies like Liquid AI, ZEDEDA, and Stellar Cyber. Liao's career highlights include leading investments in innovative startups at various stages, such as Seed and Series B, and focusing on sectors like Cybersecurity, Analytics, and Cloud Infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

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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

Samsung NEXT invests in transformative seed-stage software and services startups.

samsungnext.com
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Field AI

  • Investor

    2024

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CentML

  • Investor

    2024

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Perplexity

  • Investor

    2024

Perplexity is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.

Raised $165,000,000.00 from IVP, Wayra and SoftBank Vision Fund.

perplexity.ai
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Figure

  • Investor

    2024

Figure Robotics is an AI robotics company that is building a multi-purpose humanoid form robot.

Raised $854,000,000.00 from Quantum Angels, Bossa Invest, ARK Venture Fund, Aliya Capital Partners, Evolution VC Partners, Bold Capital Partners, NVIDIA, Bezos Expeditions, Boscolo Intervest and Amazon.com.incs Ltd.

figure.ai
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Liquid AI

  • Investor

    2023

Liquid AI is a developer of AI applications that help improve human experience.

Raised $43,200,000.00 from Sandeep Vij, Breyer Capital, Tobias Lütke, Chris Prucha, Bold Capital Partners, Bob Young, Isai, Stephen Pagliuca, Capgemini and Tom Preston-Werner.

liquid.ai
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Stability AI

  • Investor

    2022

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OXIO

  • Investor

    2022

OXIO is a telecom-as-a-service platform designed for brands and enterprises.

Raised $59,626,631.00 from Ascend Venture Capital, Allan Green, King River Capital, ParaFi Capital, Digital Currency Group, FinTech Collective, Leyden Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Atlantico and monashees.

oxio.com
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Space and Time

  • Investor

    2022

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Expeto™

  • Investor

    2022

Expeto’s NeXtworkingTM solution is the world’s leading Enterprise Private Mobile Networking (PMN) platform.

Raised $26,685,169.00 from Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator.

expeto.io

Education 

Investments 

Liquid AI

Seed

Total funding: $44M

Kind Humanoid

Pre Seed

Total funding amount not yet available

ZEDEDA

Series B

Total funding: $150M

Stellar Cyber

Series B

Total funding: $67M

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