Investing Profile

Bill Tai(327)

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
421 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
57

Bill Tai is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Bill Tai's Investments On Record (39)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Kiva 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: Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Josh Buckley (Buckley Ventures), Galym Imanbayev (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Mark McLaughlin (Alkeon Capital), Jason Calacanis (LAUNCH), Martin Alexander Gershon (Endeavor Venture Funds), David Murray-Hundley (Pario Ventures), Jinal Jhaveri (Runa Capital), Aaron Rankin (Sprout Social, Inc.), Mujtaba Wani (GSV Ventures), Milad Alucozai (BoxOne Ventures), Alex MacCaw (Earl Grey Capital), Shaan Puri (Shaan's All Access Fund), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Simon Chan (FirstHand Alliance), Vishal Rao, Aaron King, Jason Hunt, Viral Bajaria, Chris Fanini, Mikhail Seregine, Oleg Rogynskyy, Daniel Kan, Emmett Shear, Kyle Vogt, Immad Akhund, Vikas Gupta, Ted Serbinski, Jay Jamison, Adam Michalski
Class Technologies
Series BJul 2021$110M
Series AFeb 2021$31M
SeedSep 2020$16M
$160M
Co-investors: Santi Subotovsky (Emergence Capital), Jeff Lieberman (Insight Partners), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Ian Chiu (Owl Ventures), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), Steve Case (Revolution), Marc Benioff
Superlogic
Pre SeedMay 2021$4M
$8M
Co-investors: Margaret Lim (American Express Ventures), Jaeson Ma (East West Ventures EWV)
Kickfurther
SeedApr 2021$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Jack Greco (Cupule Ventures), Thomas Golisano

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