Investing Profile

Bill Tai(350)

AngelFormer CEOVC
Venture Capitalist, Educator & Athlete
about.me/billtaiPalo Alto, California
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39 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), and 36 other investors on Signal.

Networks Bill is a member of
Harvard Business School Network
427 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Network
61 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Angel
Investment Range
$50K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$250K
Investments On Record
58

Bill Tai is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Bill Tai's Investments On Record (40)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Perle AI
SeedOct 2024$7M
$7M
Co-investors: Evan Feng (CoinFund), Cyrus Massoumi (Humbition), Slava Rubin (Humbition)
Fairmatic
Series BMar 2023$46M
Series AAug 2022$42M
$88M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Marcus Ryu (Battery Ventures), Charles Moldow (Foundation Capital), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Oren Zeev (Zeev Capital), Assaf Wand
Faradai
SeedNov 2022$2M
$2M
MicroTau
SeedJun 2022$4M
$4M
Fathom
SeedJan 2022$5M
$60M
Co-investors: Josh Buckley (Buckley Ventures), Galym Imanbayev (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Jinal Jhaveri (Runa Capital), Aaron Rankin (Sprout Social, Inc.), David Murray-Hundley (Pario Ventures), Mujtaba Wani (GSV Ventures), Milad Alucozai (BoxOne Ventures), Alex MacCaw (Earl Grey Capital), Shaan Puri (Shaan's All Access Fund), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Martin Alexander Gershon (Endeavor Venture Funds), Simon Chan (FirstHand Alliance), Mark McLaughlin (Alkeon Capital), Jason Calacanis (LAUNCH), Emmett Shear, Kyle Vogt, Ted Serbinski, Vishal Rao, Daniel Kan, Viral Bajaria, Jason Hunt, Aaron King, Oleg Rogynskyy, Immad Akhund, Vikas Gupta, Jay Jamison, Mikhail Seregine, Adam Michalski, Chris Fanini
Class Technologies
Series BJul 2021$110M
Series AFeb 2021$31M
SeedSep 2020$16M
$160M
Co-investors: Santi Subotovsky (Emergence Capital), Jeff Lieberman (Insight Partners), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Ian Chiu (Owl Ventures), Steve Case (Revolution), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Marc Benioff
Archipelo
SeedJul 2021$8M
$8M
Co-investors: Ed Roman (Hack VC), David Weisburd (10X Capital), Gil Penchina (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), Andy Bechtolsheim
Superlogic
Pre SeedMay 2021$4M
$8M
Co-investors: Jaeson Ma (East West Ventures EWV), Margaret Lim (American Express Ventures)

most interested in

Data Science, AI, SaaS , DevOps, Human Performance, Flow State

not interested in

Not interested in heavily capital intensive businesses.

Bill Tai's Experience

Chariman / Founding Investor Treasure Data2011 - Present
Partner Emeritus / General Partner Charles River Ventures2002 - 2011
Founding Chairman IPInfusion1999 - 2007
Founding Chairman and CEO iAsiaWorks1994 - 2003
General Partner Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)1994 - 2002

Bill Tai's Education

Harvard Business School MBA Capital Markets
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BSEE w Honors Computer Engineering; Chip Design