Investing Profile

Bill Tai(368)

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
430 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Network
62 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Angel
Investment Range
$50K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$250K
Investments On Record
59

Bill Tai is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Bill Tai's Investments On Record (41)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Robyn
SeedApr 2025$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Matt Miller (Headwater Ventures), Kenneth Goldman
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), Oren Zeev (Zeev Capital), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), 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)), 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), Viral Bajaria, Ted Serbinski, Oleg Rogynskyy, Daniel Kan, Emmett Shear, Kyle Vogt, Vishal Rao, Aaron King, Mikhail Seregine, Jason Hunt, Adam Michalski, Chris Fanini, Vikas Gupta, Jay Jamison, Immad Akhund
Class Technologies
Series BJul 2021$110M
Series AFeb 2021$31M
SeedSep 2020$16M
$160M
Co-investors: Jeff Lieberman (Insight Partners), Santi Subotovsky (Emergence Capital), 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: David Weisburd (10X Capital), Ed Roman (Hack VC), Gil Penchina (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), Andy Bechtolsheim

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