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Tony Ho

Partner, Head of Engineering at General Catalyst

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Tony Ho is currently the Partner and Head of Engineering at General Catalyst in San Francisco, California. With a background spanning roles at notable companies like SignalFire, EDO Inc., and The Thiel Foundation, Ho has expertise in engineering leadership and technology innovation. Ho's career highlights include serving as the CTO at EDO Inc. and being selected as a Thiel Fellow at The Thiel Foundation, showcasing his leadership skills and entrepreneurial spirit in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Partner, Head of Engineering

    2022 - Current

General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.

  • Director Of Engineering

    2019 - 2022

    SignalFire is a complete redesign of the modern venture firm based on six years of careful study and development by a team of world class investors and engineers trained at General Catalyst, KPCB, Andreessen Horowitz, Yahoo and Google. The end result is a radically different model that brings unparalleled firepower at the early stage to solve the biggest entrepreneur pain points. Our distributed network approach provides expert advice from some of the world's best entrepreneurs, product & engineering leaders in virtually every key discipline and industry. We have developed a first of its kind centralized infrastructure to help with recruiting exceptional talent, business development, customer acquisition as well as educational & community events. We don’t follow the crowd, and almost always lead our investment rounds as the first institutional investors in exceptional companies. You can read more about SignalFire at: https://medium.com/signalfire-fund

SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.

  • CTO

    2014 - 2018

EDO is a data, measurement, and analytics company.

Raised $92,000,000.00 from Shamrock Capital Advisors.

  • Thiel Fellow

    2012 - 2016

We support science, technology, and long-term thinking about the future.

  • Software Engineer

    2013 - 2014

SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.

  • Technology Associate Intern

    2012 - 2012

    Research Team

Bridgewater manages approximately $120 billion in global investments for a wide array of institutional clients, including foreign

Raised $22,000,000.00.

  • Software Engineer Intern

    2011 - 2011

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

  • Software Engineer Intern

    2011 - 2011

    Created test automation software on file conversion servers to make sure production code performs accurately.

Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls.

Raised $1,458,950,000.00 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

  • Software Engineer Intern

    2010 - 2010

    Software Engineer worked with Computer Vision and Machine Learning.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research Intern

    2009 - 2009

    Worked on text mining descriptions of microarrays. Used shell, R, PERL, SQL programming languages.

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