Perry Wu
Serial Entrepreneur / Venture Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and Chairman
2021 - 2024
Early generative AI product for automating the process of editing video and creating social media.
Venture Partner
2023 - 2024
Partnered with ESO Fund to test the waters on a new investment fund.
General Partner
2020 - 2022
AI Fund is a venture capital firm backed by Sequoia, Greylock, and NEA and focused on Incubating and funding pre-seed/seed stage Artificial Intelligence companies. One of two General Partners, managing a $175M fund. Made investments in and acted as board member/advisor to a dozen infrastructure and application startups.
AI Fund is a VC firm made up of AI pioneers, operators, entrepreneurs, and investors, supported by LPs such as NEA, Sequoia and Greylock.
Advisor/Angel Investor
2014 - 2020
Advisor/Board Member/ Angel Investor in over a dozen early stage companies in the areas of big data, cloud and wireless infrastructure, application, and autonomous driving. Acquisitions by Cloudera, Microsoft, Opentext, and Roblox.
Senior Advisor, Office of the CEO
2014 - 2017
Recruited by President and CFO to help with inorganic growth strategy. Executed venture investments, advised portfolio companies, helped turn around $2.1B consumer products division, created new cold storage division, China JV, and assisted with acquisitions.
Western Digital helps customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
Raised $901,367,000.00 from Apollo, Elliott Investment Management and Tsinghua Unisplendour Venture Capital.
Founder, CEO, & CPO
2007 - 2013
BitGravity was the pioneer of and leader in broadcast quality Internet video across the Internet. The company was responsible for ensuring live and on-demand video delivery for YouTube, Vimeo, CNBC, NBC, CBS, Disney, WSJ, Bloomberg, Formula1, and 19 Entertainment (American Idol) to name a few. Conceived, led, and bootstrapped company to over 3000 customers, 22 datacenters around the globe, doubling revenue every year. Accolades included LightReading’s Best New Service of the Year, Demo’s DemoGod, Redherring's Best Startup, and OnHollywood's Top 100 Private Companies. ACQUIRED BY TATA COMMUNICATIONS
General Partner / Managing Member
2001 - 2006
ComVentures is a top-tier venture capital firm with over $1.5 billion under management that focuses on investing in early-stage communications and Internet companies. The partnership has led investments in over 100 private, technology startups spanning semiconductors, Cloud and enterprise infrastructure, systems, software and Internet services, and applications, resulting in the creation of numerous industry leading companies. One of five general partners, focused on software investments.
Co-Founder and Interim CEO
2001 - 2002
One of the first Cloud storage services. Targeted companies with high volumes of long-tail reference material that required a lower-cost, highly accessible, easy-to-use storage solution. ACQUIRED BY HEWLETT PACKARD
Partner
1999 - 2000
One of two IT investors, deploying a $120M first-time fund into early-stage communications and software investments. Our investments resulted in 200+% net IRR to investors.
Director Product Management
1995 - 1998
Mpath / Hearme was the leading, low-latency network, enabling leading services in multiplayer gaming and VOIP. Ran product management from the onset to the company's IPO.