Simon Tiu
Investor at Vertex Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2024 - Current
Board or help support: - Ambi Robotics: AI-powered robotic solution for parcel sorting - Clearpol: AI compliance agent for post-acute and long-term care - Cyberhaven: Data protection powered by AI - Evisort: AI-native platform for end-to-end contract lifecycle management - Hasura: Instantly deploy flexible and secure GraphQL APIs - Lightbeam.ai: Zero trust data protection - Tulip: Operational and data collection for manufacturers - VGS: Industry leader in payments tokenization
Board Observer
2024
Tulip is empowering companies to digitally transform their operations its connected, IIoT-native, no-code frontline operations platform.
Raised $152,500,000.00 from Vertex Ventures US, New Enterprise Associates, Time Ventures, DMG Mori Seiki, Pitango VC and Insight Partners.
Board Observer
2024
LightBeam.ai employs a zero-trust data protection approach to streamline and unify data security, privacy, and AI governance.
Raised $22,300,000.00 from Dropbox Ventures, Vertex Ventures US, Village Global, Alumni Ventures and 8VC.
Board Observer
2024
Evisort is an AI-powered platform for managing contracts through their lifecycle, including creation, analysis, and reporting.
Raised $155,794,988.00 from General Atlantic, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Amity Ventures, Breyer Capital, Vertex Ventures and TCV.
Board Observer
2024
Board Observer
2024
VGS is the World'd Leader in Payment Tokenization
Raised $104,930,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, GS Growth and Vertex Ventures.
Associate
2020 - 2023
~$100Bn+ of Tech M&A experience across Enterprise Software, Infrastructure, Data, and FinTech Selected Transactions: – $29.6Bn sale of Splunk to Cisco – $29Bn sale of Afterpay to Square – $10.7Bn sale of Anaplan to Thoma Bravo – $8.2Bn sale of Coupa to Thoma Bravo – $6.5Bn sale of New Relic to Francisco Partners & TPG – $5.7Bn acquisition of Mimecast by Permira – $2.1Bn sale of Fitbit to Google – $1.8Bn sale of Everbridge to Thoma Bravo – $1.2Bn sale of BitGo to Galaxy Digital (terminated) – $1.1Bn sale of Lucid to Cint – Acquisition of Hedvig by Commvault
Summer Associate
2019 - 2019
MBA Intern
2019 - 2019
Jump Capital is a thesis-led, sector-focused, and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed/Series A.
Private Equity Summer Associate
2018 - 2018