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A Delayed Welcome to Bezi and Congrats on the Series A!
Talks about Bezi, Series A funding and 3D collaboration
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Susan Liu
Partner at Uncork Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Susan Liu is a Partner at Uncork Capital in San Francisco, with a background in financial analysis and venture capital. She has made significant investments in companies like Ivo, Bezi, Accredible, and Groove, showcasing her expertise in seed, Series A, and Series B stages.
Susan Liu's career highlights include serving as a Board Member and Lead Seed Investor at Bezi, as well as being a Principal at Scale Venture Partners, where she honed her skills in financial modeling and industry analysis.
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
Investing in promising seed stage companies primarily in b2b (broadly horizontal software, vertical software, AI).
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups.
Seed Investor
2023
AI Contract Review Software for Legal Teams
Board Member and Lead Seed Investor
2022
Design in 3D together
Create in 3D together.
Raised $13,000,000.00 from Uncork Capital, Arash Ferdowsi, Ryan Hoover, Suhail Doshi, Siqi Chen, Lenny Rachitsky, Designer Fund, Benchmark, Akshay Kothari and Dantley Davis.
Board Observer
2020 - 2021
Global people and payroll platform
Papaya Global is a fintech platform that provides cloud-based payroll and payments solutions for global workforce management.
Raised $444,500,000.00 from Scale Venture Partners, Insight Partners, IVP, Access Industries, Group 11, Workday Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Alkeon Capital, Greenoaks and Tiger Global Management.
Board Observer
2015 - 2021
Digital Adoption Platform that enables businesses to simplify the online experience for their users. We led the Series C and were the first U.S. institutional investors.
WalkMe provides a digital adoption platform to let organizations measure, drive, and act to maximize their digital transformation.
Raised $307,500,000.00 from Vitruvian Partners and Insight Partners.
Principal
2012 - 2021
At Scale, Susan sourced investments in WalkMe, Wrike, Unbabel, Lever, and TalkIQ. She was a Board Observer at WalkMe, Papaya Global, Wrike (acquired by Vista Equity Partners), and Scout RFP ($540M acquisition by Workday). Her work has earned her industry recognition including Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital, Business Insider's Rising Stars in Silicon Valley, Venture Capital Journal’s Rising Stars, and the National Venture Capital Association’s Rising Star award. Susan’s investment focus covers two broad categories: product-led growth / bottom-up SaaS business models; and “future of work” solutions that improve how knowledge workers, remote workers, and solopreneurs get work done. Susan is a member of All Raise, the nonprofit dedicated to diversity among funders & founders, where she served on the Finance committee. She holds a B.A. in Economics from University of California, Berkeley.
Scale is a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on intelligent business software.
Board Observer
2016 - 2018
Project management software. Received majority investment from Vista Equity Partners in 2018.
Wrike is a work management platform that manages cross-functional work and enables contextual collaboration in a secure environment.
Raised $26,000,000.00 from DCM Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures and Scale Venture Partners.
Technology Investment Banking
2010 - 2012
Advised software and consumer Internet companies on capital raises and M&A strategy.
Investment Banking Summer Intern
2009 - 2009
Sustainable Private Equity and Credit Investments