Investing Profile

Gideon Yu

VC
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
280 Earth
Series BMay 2024$50M
$50M
Honestbee
Series AOct 2015$15M
$15M
Co-investors: Owen Van Natta (Prefix Capital), Steve Chen
Change.org
Series CDec 2014$25M
$70M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), James Currier (NFX), Kevin Colleran (Slow Ventures), Sundeep Ahuja (Climate Capital), Ali Partovi (Neo), Nasir Jones (QueensBridge Venture Partners), Jeff Weiner (Next Play Ventures), Ariel Poler (Human Augmentation Syndicate), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Guy Oseary (Sound Ventures), Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Clark Landry, Arianna Huffington, Sam Altman, Bill Gates, Bradley Horowitz, Hadi Partovi, Nicolas Berggruen, Anthony Saleh, Richard Branson, Evan Williams, Scott Heiferman
Opendoor
Series AJul 2014$10M
$950M
Co-investors: Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Joshua Kushner (Thrive Capital), Om Malik (True Ventures), Dan Rose (Coatue), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Max Altman (Saga), Raymond Tonsing (Caffeinated Capital), Glenn Solomon (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Manu Gupta (Lakestar), Scott Stanford (ACME Capital), Semil Shah (Haystack), Anton Levy (General Atlantic), Klaus Hommels (Lakestar), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), Michael Arrington (CrunchFund), Max Levchin (Scifi Vc), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Elad Gil, Andy Rankin, Oliver Thylmann, Jeff Seibert, Aaron Levie, Karim Elsahy, Wayne Chang, Sam Altman, Louis Beryl, Jeremy Stoppelman, Joe Greenstein, Charlie Cheever
Amitree
SeedJan 2014$3M
$19M
Co-investors: Bruce Golden (Accel), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Paul Conley (Paladin Capital Group), Daniel Scrivner (Ligature), Ashvin Patel (Morado Venture Partners), Owen Van Natta (Prefix Capital), Umesh Padval (Thomvest Ventures), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Farzad Nazem, Vishal Makhijani
Sparks
SeedOct 2013$2M
$2M
Co-investors: John Lilly (Greylock), Aditya Agarwal (South Park Commons), Harris Barton, Akshay Kothari, Charlie Cheever
Block, Inc.
Series BJan 2011$28M
Series ANov 2009$10M
$290M
Co-investors: Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Nino Marakovic (Sapphire Ventures), Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Robin Chan (Goat Capital), Brian Pokorny (SV Angel), Ronald Conway Sr. (SV Angel), Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Zachary Bogue (DCVC (Data Collective)), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Rob Hayes (First Round Capital), Glenn Solomon (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), David Lee (Samsung NEXT Ventures), Fritz Lanman (Acequia Capital), David Lee (SLVC), Xavier Niel (Kima Ventures), Luis Valdich (Citi Ventures), Megan Quinn, Joshua Schachter, Esther Dyson, Dennis Crowley, Marissa Mayer, Biz Stone, Jim Pitkow, Richard Branson
Hunch
Series BMar 2010$12M
$41M
Co-investors: Rob Stavis (Bessemer Venture Partners), Chris Dixon (Andreessen Horowitz), Tak Lee (Hashed), Marius Ghenea (3TS Capital Partners)