Firsthand.vc invests in ambitious founders building the future of autonomous business software and the supporting infrastructure from the earliest stage. Based in New York City, investing in experienced founders targeting the US market.

I invest personally in startups that are not within the scope of Firsthand.vc. I also invest in some funds as an LP.Highlighted personal portfolio:- Caper - AI self-checkout shopping carts (Acq by Instacart)- Indus.ai - construction intelligence (Acq by Procore)- Brightback - an automated subscription retention service (Acq by Chargebee)- Lawyaw - legal document automation (Acq by Clio)- Hummingbot - open-source crypto trading software- HomeCourt - an app that uses AI to record and track basketball shots, makes, misses, and location- Carta - company ownership management platform- Smith.ai - a receptionist service for live calls & website chatand other companies still in stealth mode.Select Web3:- OpenSea- Kraken- LikerLandSelect funds:- Pantera Capital- Soma Capital- Animal Capital- 500 Global

I'm excited to work with Shasta Ventures part-time as a Venture Partner to support entrepreneurs and further develop the firm's focus on smart enterprise software.

Actively investing in early-stage startups globally.

PredictionIO is a machine learning server. It empowers developers to build predictive engines and deploy them as scalable web services in a fraction of the time. The open source version of PredictionIO is ranked by Github as the most popular Apache Spark-based ML projects in the world.Acquired by Salesforce in Feb 2016. Built up the Einstein Platform product team after joining Salesforce. Initiated and launched AI-related platform products.

Created two popular social networking sites:1. WaZhua -- an online VR entertainment world. Pioneered China's live digital DJs and Karaoke market.2. CityIN -- a networking site for professionals. Developed face-recognition technology for photo-tagging, QR code service for users to scan up to 1000 Chinese characters of data from the site into their mobile phones and a real-time learning recommendation engine. Acquired Moochi, a Tsinghua University spin-off company, which developed an online video editing platform for the China market. Managed a 50-people company in Guangzhou and Beijing.

Established the online career social networking. Powered by social graph recommendation and NLP for automated resume matching.

Established a tutor-student matching platform.Operated 6 profitable SAT preparation centers under the name Elite1600.

Developed the intelligent Financial Advisor for mutual fund recommendation.