AMINO Capital is a venture firm based in Palo Alto, focusing on seed to growth stage investments in big data and data driven technologies, including over 160 high growth startups, with over 21 successful exits, 7 Unicorns, and over 17 startups with over $100 million valuation, including Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), GrokStyle(acquired by Facebook), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Mobike (acquired by Meituan/Tencent), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (Acquired by Kuaishou/Tencent), Chime Bank, Voyage, AIFI.io, Vicarious, Paperspace, Skycatch, Webflow and Grail.
For this interview, Larry Li, Founding Partner at Amino Capital, talked with Patrick Daniel. Amino Capital started with their partners’ own money and founded by tech executives in Facebook, Google, Amazon, Yahoo and more than 60 LPs who all have relevant industrial and entrepreneurial experiences. Amino Capital was focused on early stage breakthrough technologies and helps startups create data driven products from 0 to 1.
In this interview at Stanford University, Amino Capital Managing Partner, Dr. Huican Zhu describes what technology he is most excited about at the recent Google I/O, and how his team’s unique background reveals the promising investment success.
A Conversation with Amino Partner Dr. Sue Xu: CES 2020 & Insights on Current Tech Trends
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Jan 7 to Jan 10. Arguably the world’s most prominent gathering place for everything consumer technologies related, the CES saw thousands of young innovators and giant incumbent players attend this year.
While much attention tends to focus on the latest buzzwords–artificial intelligence, big data…–companies presenting at CES 2020 promised technologies and products that would fundamentally disrupt, even more, entire industries like finance and healthcare.