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Chun Xia

Founding Partner at TSVC

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Chun Xia is a seasoned early-stage investor and startup coach based in Palo Alto, California, with a strong background in entrepreneurship and reverse innovation. As the Founding Partner and Co-founder at TSVC, he has successfully invested in a range of companies across various sectors, including Semiconductors, Medical Devices, and Enterprise Software, showcasing his expertise in strategic partnerships and go-to-market strategies. With a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and experience at notable companies like Sun Microsystems and Engineered Intelligence, Chun Xia has built a successful career marked by founding and leading innovative tech startups like Mash5 Technologies and Thinkmart, while also making impactful investments in promising ventures such as BanterAI and Revery AI.

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.

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