Investing Profile

Clara Shih

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Advisor & Angel Investor at Gusto
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Networks Clara is a member of
NewCo Network
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NewCo Network
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Top-Patents Network
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Top-Patents Network
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University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory Network
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Current Investing Position
Gusto Advisor
Investments On Record
4

Clara Shih's Investments On Record (4)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Qodo
Series BMar 2026$70M
$120M
Co-investors: Jenna Zerker (Insight Partners), Brian Sack (TLV Partners), Dan Povitsky (Vine Ventures LP), Yonatan Sela (Square Peg Capital)
Scrunch
SeedMar 2025$4M
$19M
Co-investors: Jon Sakoda (Decibel Partners), Bryant Chou (Webflow), TJ Parker
Parenthoods
SeedNov 2014$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), David Breger, Oliver Jung
Gusto
SeedDec 2012$6M
$700M
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Pejman Nozad (Pear VC), Louis Beryl (Andreessen Horowitz), Dan Rose (Coatue), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Alex Bard (Redpoint Ventures), Kenneth Chenault (General Catalyst), Ram Shriram (Sherpalo Ventures), Aston Motes (UnitedMasters), Jason Green (Emergence Capital Partners), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Aaron Patzer (Vital Software), Seth Sternberg (Auto Insurance Specialists), Ryan Holmes (LOI Venture), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Christian Jensen (Dragoneer Investment Group), Hunter Mcnabb (9Yards Capital), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Laela Sturdy (CapitalG), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Wesley Chan (FPV Fund), Jessica Verrilli (Adverb Ventures), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Wayne Chang (Techstars), Mariam Naficy (Heretic Ventures), Matt Rogers (Incite Ventures), Ronald Conway Sr. (NewCo), Jay Simons (Bond), Marco Zappacosta (Thumbtack, Inc.), Aditya Agarwal (South Park Commons), Matt Mickiewicz (Unstoppable Domains), Hiten Shah (FYI), Ken Chenault Jr. (Benchstrength), Jeff Abbott (Blitzscaling Ventures), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Adam Nash (Gusto), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp.com), Matt Humphrey (Quiet Capital), Julia Popowitz (Broadway Angels), Max Levchin (Scifi Vc), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Matt Mullenweg (Audrey Capital), Eric Ries (Long-Term Stock Exchange), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Daniel Gross (C2 Investment), Dharmesh Shah, Doug Sleeter, Kris Duggan, Jeff Seibert, Phil Libin, Sam Altman, Charlie Cheever, Erick Tseng, Larry Augustin, Tobias Lutke, Aaron Levie, Tien Tzuo, Josh Silverman, Jared Leto, Drew Houston, Justin Rosenstein

Clara Shih's Experience

VP, Head of Business AI metaPresent
Founder & Executive Chair Hearsay SocialPresent
Diversity Advisory Council Code.orgPresent
Member, Board of Directors StarbucksPresent
Founder & CEO Hearsay SocialPresent
Bestselling Author The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, andPresent
App Developer FaceconnectorPresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) Camp AmeliaPresent
Software Engineer Co-op/Intern Microsoft CorporationPresent
Summer Analyst Goldman SachsPresent
Software Engineering Intern Oracle CorporationPresent
Web Developer FermilabPresent
App Developer Top-PatentsPresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) Top-PatentsPresent
GM, AppExchange Platform & Ecosystem SalesforcePresent
Business Operations Analyst GooglePresent
Software Engineering Intern OraclePresent
CEO, Salesforce AI SalesforcePresent
CEO, Service Cloud SalesforcePresent
App Developer NewCoPresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) NewCoPresent
Advisor & Angel Investor GustoPresent
Rework America Task Force John & Mary Markle FoundationPresent
Founder & CEO Hearsay SystemsPresent
Bestselling Author The Social Business ImperativePresent
Member, Board of Directors Ad CouncilPresent
App Developer Self-EmployedPresent
GM, AppExchange Developer Platform & Ecosystem SalesforcePresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) Self-EmployedPresent
Software Engineer Co-op/Intern MicrosoftPresent
Software Engineer BuildfolioPresent
App Developer The Grameen Creative LabPresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) The Grameen Creative LabPresent
SVP, Head of Business AI metaPresent
Founder & Executive Chair Hearsay SystemsPresent
Advisor & Investor PerplexityPresent
App Developer University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent
Founder, Executive Director & Teacher (Grades 4-6) University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Clara Shih's Education

University of Oxford Master of Science (M.Sc.) Department of Education and Oxford Internet Institute
Stanford University M.S. Computer Science Distributed Systems and Human-Computer Interaction
Stanford University B.S. Computer Science