Veronica Wu

Managing Partner at First Bight Ventures

Houston, Texas

Overview

Veronica Wu is the Founder/Managing Partner at First Bight Ventures, with a background that includes serving as Vice President of China at Tesla Motors and General Manager Enterprise and Education at Apple Inc. She has invested in a variety of sectors and stages, including companies like Algenesis, Proxifile, and CodeCombat. Veronica Wu's career highlights include her role as Vice President at Tesla Motors and General Manager at Apple Inc., as well as her current position as the Founder/Managing Partner at First Bight Ventures, where she invests in various sectors and stages of companies.

Work Experience

First Bight Ventures

Founder/Managing Partner
2021 - Current
First Bight Ventures is the first early stage fund dedicated to advancing and accelerating synthetic biology companies. We believe that we stand at a unique point in time where biology meets technology and this juncture offers an opportunity to create dramatic value while allowing us to address some of humanity's urgent existential challenges like climate change and sustainability. We bring together a strong network of partners, industry experts, facilities and research services to accelerate commercialization of synthetic biology start-ups especially for industrial applications

First Bight Ventures is a early stage fund that is dedicated to synthetic biology start-ups.

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Capgemini

Member Of Global Advisory Board
2020 - 2021

VF Corporation

Board Member
2019 - 2021

VF offers outdoor and activity-based lifestyle and work-wear brands.

Raised $1,757,876,223.00 from Engaged Capital LLC.

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Hone Capital

Managing Partner
2015 - 2020
Pioneered Venture at Scale by sourcing from a large operator angel network and leveraging machine learning models to help filter to enable efficient investment decisions. Co-founded the first Institutional Venture fund to invest at scale in seed, then selectively double down using longitudinal data. Invested in 300+ early stage tech companies across sectors that resulted in 33 unicorns, 6 SPACs and 4 IPO within 6 years.

Hone Capital is a venture capital firm investing in early stage companies in Silicon Valley and selectively in growth stage investments.

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