Xuhui Shao
Managing Partner at Foothill Ventures
Xuhui Shao
Managing Partner at Foothill Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
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
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund that invests in seed to A-round startups in the United States.
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.
TSVC is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed-stage technology startups.
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.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
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.
ID Analytics is a company providing credit and identity risk management solutions for real-time information services.
Raised $35,150,000.00 from Canaan Partners, Trinity Ventures, Investor Growth Capital Limited and Mission Ventures.
Chairman of EPSE LAMP Advisory Board
2005 - 2007
Senior Staff Scientist
1999 - 2002