Investing Profile

Bill Tai(381)

AngelFormer CEOVC
Venture Capitalist, Educator & Athlete
about.me/billtaiPalo Alto, California
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41 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), and 38 other investors on Signal.

Networks Bill is a member of
Harvard Business School Network
434 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Network
63 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Angel
Investment Range
$50K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$250K
Investments On Record
60

Bill Tai is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Bill Tai's Investments On Record (42)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Robyn
SeedApr 2025$6M
$6M
Co-investors: Matt Miller (Headwater Ventures), Kenneth Goldman
Perle AI
SeedOct 2024$7M
$16M
Co-investors: Vance Spencer (Framework Ventures), Evan Feng (CoinFund), Cyrus Massoumi (Humbition), Slava Rubin (Humbition)
Fairmatic
Series BMar 2023$46M
Series AAug 2022$42M
$88M
Co-investors: Marcus Ryu (Battery Ventures), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud 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: Josh Buckley (Buckley Ventures), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Galym Imanbayev (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), David Murray-Hundley (Pario Ventures), Jinal Jhaveri (Runa Capital), Aaron Rankin (Sprout Social, Inc.), Martin Alexander Gershon (Endeavor Venture Funds), Mujtaba Wani (GSV Ventures), Milad Alucozai (BoxOne Ventures), Alex MacCaw (Earl Grey Capital), Simon Chan (FirstHand Alliance), Shaan Puri (Shaan's All Access Fund), Jason Calacanis (LAUNCH), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Mark McLaughlin (Alkeon Capital), Immad Akhund, Adam Michalski, Aaron King, Viral Bajaria, Chris Fanini, Mikhail Seregine, Oleg Rogynskyy, Daniel Kan, Emmett Shear, Kyle Vogt, Jason Hunt, Vikas Gupta, Jay Jamison, Ted Serbinski, Vishal Rao
Class Technologies
Series BJul 2021$110M
Series AFeb 2021$31M
SeedSep 2020$16M
$160M
Co-investors: Santi Subotovsky (Emergence Capital), Jeff Lieberman (Insight Partners), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Ian Chiu (Owl Ventures), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), Steve Case (Revolution), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Marc Benioff
Archipelo
SeedJul 2021$8M
$8M
Co-investors: Ed Roman (Hack VC), David Weisburd (10X Capital), 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