Tony Liu
Partner at Costanoa Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Invested in Coiled (seed), Delphina (seed), Earthmover (pre-seed), Feldera (seed), Outerbounds (seed), Prefix.dev (seed), Rerun (seed), Sync Computing (series A), Million.dev (pre-seed), Fixify (seed), OpenPipe (seed), Textualize (pre-seed)
Principal
2019 - 2022
Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business
Product Manager
2018 - 2019
ML Workspace, Koalas
Databricks is an AI cloud data platform that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Raised $3,997,000,000.00 from Firestreak Ventures and Bossa Invest.
Product Manager
2017 - 2018
Expo enables management and teams to enhance their performance by leveraging real-time data and insights for optimization.
Raised $28,000,000.00 from Calibrate Ventures and Alumni Ventures.
Data Scientist
2016 - 2017
Developed first ID fraud model. Reduced rate of ID fraud by 60% and stolen cars by 50% in first three months.
Turo is a peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace where customers can book vehicles from a community of local hosts.
Raised $570,067,273.00 from Irving Investors, G Squared and SharesPost Investment Management.
Software Engineering Intern, Core Search Ranking
2015 - 2015
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Sports Research Analyst
2013 - 2015
ML Research Program
2014 - 2014
Tested predictive power of existing heuristics for basketball player valuation. Built ML models that significantly reduced error rate with a novel aggregation approach to basketball possession data.
Technical Consultant
2014 - 2014
Received end credit in season 2 of Silicon Valley.