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Sue Xu
Managing Partner at Amino Capital
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Sue Xu
Managing Partner at Amino Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Sue Xu is the Managing Partner at Amino Capital, with a strong focus on investing in various sectors such as biotech, health IT, and consumer internet. She has successfully invested in a range of companies at different stages, including Grail, Inc., DFINITY, and Weee!, among others, showcasing her expertise in identifying and supporting promising startups.
With a background in the pharmaceutical industry and a keen eye for business strategy, Sue Xu has made significant investments in companies like Meituan Bike, Unbabel, and HealthCrowd, demonstrating her proficiency in cross-functional team leadership and competitive analysis within the startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2012 - Current
Dr. Sue Xu is a Managing Partner at Amino Capital and joined the firm in 2012, with investment theme of data moat, network effect and domain agnostic. She has successful investments from inception to unicorn in Generative AI, Consumer, SaaS and Frontier tech. She was founding CEO of CandyHouse and CyteSi, both Stanford lab spin-offs. Since 2012, she has involved with more than 300 investments mostly in seed and Series A, with around 20 unicorns and over 35 companies with valuation higher than $100M, including Chime, Rippling, Grail(acquired by Illumina), Webflow, Weee, DFINITY, Replit, Oasis Labs, OmiseGo, Turing, Wyze, GetAccept, Guesty, Instawork, Wetravel, StarRocks, Karbon Card, Unbabel, and WriteSonic. Dr. Sue Xu began her early stage entrepreneurship when she was the founding scientist of GlycoMira (also involved in undergrad and PhD laboratory spin-offs). She has three patents and over 20 journal publications, and previously was a medical school researcher at Stanford University.
Amino Capital focusing on data driven startups, and blockchain powered next generation protocols.
Investor
2020
Series A Investor
Investor
2018
Seed Round Investor
Replit is a browser-based integrated development environment for cross-platform collaborative coding.
Raised $222,020,000.00 from Craft Ventures and AIspace Ventures.
Investor
2017
Seed Round Investor
Rippling is the workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, finance, and more.
Raised $1,987,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group, Coatue, Greenoaks, Founders Fund and Bossa Invest.
Investor
2017
Seires B Investor
Grail is a healthcare company that develops pan-cancer screening tests designed to detect cancers at an early stage.
Raised $2,004,655,040.00 from CPP Investments, Huangpu River Capital, Illumina and PSP Investments.
Investor
2015
Seed Round Investor
Instawork is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers and hospitality businesses.
Raised $148,000,000.00 from Spark Capital, Larry Fitzgerald, 9Yards Capital, Benchmark, Greylock, Craft Ventures and TCV.
Investor
2015
Seed Round Investor
Weee! is an online grocery delivery platform that offers Hispanic and Asian foods specialty products and everyday staples.
Raised $862,750,000.00 from SoftBank Vision Fund, iFly.vc and Greyhound Capital.
Investor
2016
Seed Round Investor
Dfinity Beacon Fund is an investment fund focused on sourcing, evaluating, and supporting world-class applications and services.
Investor
2013
Seed Round Investor
Webflow is a visual web design platform, CMS, and hosting provider for building production websites and prototypes.
Raised $334,900,000.00 from CapitalG, Draper Associates, Accel, Y Combinator Continuity Fund and Silversmith Capital Partners.