Chun Xia
Founding Partner at TSVC
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and General Partner
2010 - Current
TSV Capital (TSVC), founded in 2010 and formerly known as TEEC Angel Fund, is a leading seed fund specializing in Deeptech, Healthtech, and the Data Economy. As the first seed fund in Silicon Valley established by immigrants from mainland China, TSVC made history as the first institutional investor in Zoom. According to Pitchbook, TSVC is a top performer in unicorn hit rates from seed investments. TSVC is driven by a team of accomplished entrepreneurs and industry experts. With a visionary approach, TSVC continues to pioneer emerging sectors and fuel future innovation, boasting a track record of 5 IPOs and 10 unicorns from over 200 high-quality investments, including Zoom, Ginkgo Bioworks, Jasper, Carta, Opentrons, Plus, Womply, Iterable, Zūm, and d-matrix.
TSVC is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed-stage technology startups.
Co-founder and General Partner
2010
TEEC Angel Fund was rebranded to TSVC in early 2017.
Founder and CEO
2010 - 2017
Edge-container/cloud PaaS for IoE (Internet of Everything) applications. The leading technology reshapes DevOps and redefines IoE applications on mobile, smart devices, and edge devices.
Software Developer
2008 - 2009
Get hands dirty on the next generation HD video online distribution network and gain the insights of social media from operation perspectives. Coding on all kinds of client-side technologies.
Social Application Specialist and Cloud Platform Architect
2007 - 2008
Zembly - Social programming PaaS, the very first PaaS in world to enable developer community program directly on cloud with javascript, and share their web applications and components on cloud.
Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.
VP of Solutions
2004 - 2005
Marketed and delivered the parallel computing solution to financial industry. Repurposed an MPI based technology to massive distributed memory for risk analysis computing.
President & CTO
2000 - 2001
Web marketing solution for small to medium intellectual service providers, including legal, accounting, design, and other 20 sectors. Main products were ThinkOffice for service marketing presentation and utilities, ThinkAgent for service search and auto matching client requirements, and ThinkExchange for partnership with Yellowpage and other online directory services.
CTO - Co-founder
1998 - 2000
Brightinfo was the leader in e-merchandising management for B2C online retailers. Innovated with "virtual shelf" and managed by online merchandisers, the solution personalized online shoppers experience on-the-fly. The flagship product BrightMerchant was bundled in IBM Websphere as Platinum ISV partner.
Performance Architect
1996 - 1998
Designed and developed one of the world earliest utility computing products, by clustering thousands of Sun's off-the-shelf Ultra servers for carrier data centers to host web cloud. Innovated on policy-based resource management and failure detection.
Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.
Education
Ph.D.
1991 - 1996
BEng
1980 - 1985
High school
1978 - 1980