Shawn Kung
Investor
Shawn Kung
Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Angel & Advisor
2009 - Current
Strategic Advisor and/or angel in Silicon Valley pre-IPO startups - Facebook (IPO 2012), Zuora (IPO 2018), Bitfusion (acquired by VMware 2019), Cohesity, Pinecone, Neon.tech, Motherduck, Vectara, Omni Analytics, Ventrilo.ai, Armory.io, Lead IQ, Moesif, Ampool, Bouncer, Fogbender (YC W22), Open Raven, Visla, CloudEagle (YC W22), Redcoat AI, ParadeDB (YC S23), Middleware, Nova AI, InQuery, and more. Also 2 exits as a Product operator - Aster Data (Seed to $300M acquisition), Tenable (post Series B to $3B Nasdaq IPO). Current focus areas: B2B SaaS, AI / Deep Learning GenAI LLMs, Big Data and Analytics, Infrastructure / DevOps, Cyber Security software. Mentor or angel at Y Combinator (YC), 500 Startups, Alchemist, GSVLabs / Google Launchpad, Techcode, Cardinal Ventures, Fitz Gate Ventures. Created GIT1K and Founders Club, a with over 5000+ startup founders, mentors, and angels/investors to support early stage entrepreneurship. Personal: https://lucidcloud.wixsite.com/home Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shawn-kung AngelList: https://angel.co/shawn-kung Twitter: https://twitter.com/shawnykung @shawnykung
Adjunct Lecturer
2019
BUS 248: Venture Startup Formation Stanford Continuing Studies
Co-Creator & Moderator
2022
Global Information Technology 1000 community of business operators - tech leaders, founders, angels/investors, advisors. GIT1K members include tech-driven IT, Engineering, Data, and Cybersecurity operational and thought leaders at startups, growth-stage, and Fortune 1000 companies. We have a common passion & interest in investing in tech stocks, startups, real estate, crypto, and sharing ideas & trends among our community members. Join here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LEnAMV5hsfQ4VpY4YeKCRZ
Advisor
2019
Rockstar ex Amazon (AWS), Facebook, Google founding team
Angel & Advisor
2022
Rockstar ex-MemSQL / SingleStore founding team
Advisor
2013
Advisor (2013-2015)
Angel - Syndicate Lead
2022
Angel & Advisor
2022
Rockstar ex-Cloudera and Google founding team
Angel & Advisor
2022
Rockstar ex-Looker / Google founding team
Investor
2011
IPO (2012, $100 Billion)