Xuhui Shao

Managing Partner

2017 - Current

Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund investing in seed to A-round technology focused startups in the United States. Read more about our investment thesis and track record at https://medium.com/foothill-ventures

Venture Partner

2015

TEEC Angel Fund is a venture fund focusing on early stage start-ups. Our area of interests include Biotech/Healthcare, Fintech, Hardware, Consumer and Enterprise. So far, we have invested over 130 companies with 7 successful exits and 7 companies with over 100 million valuation. TEEC Fund III investment has incepted. We will continue investing on early stage startups and we do follow on investment on our portfolio companies. Within our ecosystem of a hundred portfolio CEOs, Tsinghua Entrepreneur & Executive Club (TEEC) networks, elite accelerators, and top-notch universities, we support entrepreneurs with bigger dreams.

VP Engineering II, Advertising and Data

2011 - 2017

Big Data, Analytics Insights, Reporting: Responsible for company wide data systems across consumer apps/services and search/display advertising; migrated technology from pre-Hadoop to Hadoop and post-Hadoop era in 2012/2013; Championed the focus on low-latency data processing and data science. Modern real-time bidded advertising platform: Built Yahoo's largest scale global RTB platform Yahoo Ad Manager Plus in 2014 with new tech stacks across UI/workflow, real-time user profile store, and class-leading RTB bidders and optimization subsystem. Targeting and Identity Management: Rebuilt modern targeting platform to power Yahoo's largest native, display and video ads products in 2015; Enabled cross-device identity management for mobile-centric user profiling with one of the world largest multi-tier cross-device identity footprint.

CTO

2007 - 2011

($310M exit to Singapore Telecom) Online advertising platform using advanced machine learning and optimization technology. Helped to rebuild the targeting and ad selection technology from scratch, and transform the company into an advertising platform as a service business. Revenue increased from <$1M to >$100M in 4 years.

VP, Analytics

2002 - 2007

($170M exit to SAP) Identity Risk Management using advanced predictive modeling technology. Invented and patented Graph Theory Anomaly Detection techniques for identity fraud detection and risk management which become a $20M/year software as a service product.

Chairman of EPSE LAMP Advisory Board

2005 - 2007

Senior Staff Scientist

1999 - 2002