Edward Tsai Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Board member of UCLA Samueli School of Engineering's Engineering Alumni Association Governing Board. Helping connect and facilitate industry resources to the Engineering school and provide support for the Engineering school.

Management, fundraising, and investing of Alumni Ventures' AI Fund - a diversified portfolio of Artificial Intelligence investments. Portfolio companies at AV's AI Fund include Syntiant, Cohere, Yoneda Labs, and others.

Management, fundraising, and investing for Alumni Ventures' Blockchain Fund (Fund 3) - invested in companies like Mysten, Aztec, Notifi, Magna, and others.

Internet, Us

Leading developer of building critical infrastructure to enable a more decentralized internet. Contributor to the Sui blockchain.Investors include a16z and Lightspeed

Manchester, Nh, Us

Alumni Ventures highlights:America's Largest Venture Firm for IndividualsTop 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24)#1 Most Active US Venture Firm, #3 Globally (PitchBook '22 & '23)10,000+ individual accredited investors already trust us with their venture investingFast Company's Most Innovative Personal Finance Company ('22)$1.25B+ raised & 1,300+ portfolio companies since 2014Alumni Ventures manages $1.2B+ on behalf of alumni and community members of the university communities of UCLA, the Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, as well as sector-focused funds such as the AI Fund andn Blockchain Fund. I am Managing Partner of Westwood Ventures, the AI Fund, and the Blockchain Fund. Selected investments within the greater Alumni Ventures portfolio include: Circle, Algorand, Numerade, Honest Bank, Helium, and Lacework.We can invest in any startup regardless of alumni affiliation (does not need to be within our network).We exclusively co-invest with well-established funds such as Accel, a16z, Benchmark, NEA and Sequoia. We complement the lead investor with a network of 600K alumni to make warm customer/partner introductions, support recruiting and identify advisors.Investment criteria: Sector agnostic, Seed-C, flexible check size, 10-15% of round

Los Angeles, California, Us

We are a Venture Capital firm and community of UCLA alumni investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. We raise capital from UCLA alumni and friends of the community, and seek to invest primarily in alumni-led startups. We are private, for-profit, and not part of (but friendly with) UCLA. We are part of the Alumni Ventures family of alumni-based funds.Every year, we build a portfolio of 20-30 companies spanning industry, stage and geography. We co-invest alongside established venture capital lead investors. We are an experienced, diverse community of over 12,000 alumni with different backgrounds and reasons for joining. If you are interested in entrepreneurship or venture capital, let's connect.

Hongkong, Hk

Responsible for early stage investment, M&A, and capital market work. Led Series A, B fundraising - 5B RMB of funds raised over 35+ investors over 3 years. Led multiple M&A of cybersecurity companies and worked on spin-out of incubated fund (Security Capital).

北京, 北京, Cn

600M RMB VC fund focused on cyber security investing. Founding LPs are Qianxin and Xiangdong Qi (Chairman at Qianxin; Co-founder of Qihoo 360)

朝阳区, 北京市, Cn

Responsible for strategic development and investments in Qihoo 360. Prior was Head of International Investments (reporting to CSO 8/2015-5/2016) and Head of Strategic Development (reporting to CFO Yao Jue 11/2013-8/2015). Focused on security, big data/machine learning, mobile, monetization, IOT/hardware, and other core areas for 360's business. Investments have included (partial list)At 360 - Brave Software (Series Seed) - next-gen browser. - Cruise (Series A) - ~$1B exit (M&A by GM) - next gen autonomous car- Fund Investments (TenEleven Ventures, Cendana Capital, JVP)Roles have included1) Brave Software (Board member)2) Ten Eleven Ventures (LPAC)3) Cendana (LPAC)

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Investment VP/Sr. Associate (July 2010-present)Associate (July 2008-July 2010)Led/Sourced Deals In:- CENX (Series A) - carrier ethernet exchange- Mbaobao (Series A) - fast fashion e-commerce handbags in China [Sourced]- Peerpong (Series A) - social crowdsourcing expert Q&A- Project Slice (Series A) - social e-commerce- AdKeeper (Series A) - advertising- AHALife (Series B) - luxury, curated e-commerce- Little Black Bag (Series A) - social e-commerce [Sourced]- Wowzer (Series A) - HR SAAS video and mobile platform [Sourced]- Social Finance (Series B) - Social-driven loans for college students [Originated]- LearnZillion (Series A1) - Teacher professional development and student online content [Sourced]- Life360 (Series B) - Leading mobile family location network [Sourced]- Apsalar (Series B) - ROI-driven mobile advertising, attribution and analytics [Sourced]Additionally actively involved with:- DCM China Practice (e-commerce / consumer companies)- RockYou (social games)- Nom (mobile games)- Playfirst (mobile games)- Caring.com (elderly care 2.0)- Bittorrent (media platform)

Work with the CEO, CTO, and Business Development to improve 100du products and services of a 150 person startup in Beijing.Product ManagementOversee all product managers in product management department.Responsible for enhancement of 100du online product to be competitive with international competitor functionality and user experienceBusiness Development- Researching US companies and identifying partnership opportunities - Identifying trends in the US to apply to China as a growing market

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

(With SAC year)Private Equity - 7 months on leading private equity retainer client focusing on software, retail, and financial companies. 7 technology cases (many Fortune 500, large corporate clients in enterprise software, networking, IT services, semiconductor industry, etc.)

Boston, Ma, Us

Extern at leading non-profit strategy consulting firm.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Developed software tools for developer group using SQL, Bugzilla, and Perl. Reported directly to CTO.

Houston, Texas, Us

Evaulated content delivery network vendors to increase web site performanceCreated web site positioning / marketing strategy guide for marketing department

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Software engineer for web application program in content networking/security startup

San Jose, Ca, Us

VPN and Security Business Unit - PIX Firewall GUI developer (Pix Device Manager) - Original team member of PDM release.

Us

Engineering intern in business process automation startup. Eventually bought by Peregrine Systems.

Stanford Executive Program (Sep)

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science