Ray Wu
Mentor at Harvard Blockchain Accelerator
Santa Clara, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner - Alumni Ventures AI Fund
2023 - Current
Alumni Ventures is America’s Largest Venture Firm for Individual Investors with Professional-Grade Venture Portfolios - America's Largest Venture Firm for Individuals - Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24) - Most founder Friendly VC (Inc Magazine '24) - Top 3 Most Active US VC (PitchBook '18 - '24) - Over 850,000 members from leading US universities including Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Columbia, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. - $1.4B+ raised & 1,500+ portfolio companies since 2014 We provide not only capital, but also community and network! Led investments in AI portfolio: - Lambda Labs (Series C) - Patlytics (Seed) - Ceramic AI (Seed) - Space and Time (Series A) - Sahara AI (Seed) - Spice AI (Seed) - 0g Labs (Seed) - ChainML (Seed) - Hyperbolic (Seed) - PIN AI (Seed) ** Founder Interviews: Patlytics: https://techoptimist.vc/episodes/52-meet-the-start-up-reinventing-patent-work-with-ai ** AI Linkedin Community:https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-fund-an-alumni-ventures-fund/
Founding Managing Partner - Alumni Ventures Web3/Blockchain Fund
2021
Alumni Ventures is America’s Largest Venture Firm for Individual Investors with Professional-Grade Venture Portfolios - America's Largest Venture Firm for Individuals - Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24) - Most founder Friendly VC (Inc Magazine '24) - Top 3 Most Active US VC (PitchBook '18 - '24) - Over 850,000 members from leading US universities including Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Columbia, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. - $1.4B+ raised & 1,500+ portfolio companies since 2014 50+ investments in Web3/Blockchain/Decentralized platforms: Algorand ($ALGO), Mysten ($SUI), Circle, Kraken, TRM... Led Early Stage Deals such as - 0g Labs (Seed) - Babylon Chain ($BABY, Pre-Seed) - Bluesky Social (Series A) - SoSoValue ($SOSOVALUE, Seed) - Transcrypts (Pre-Seed) - Sahara AI (Seed) - Space and Time ($SXT, Series A) - PIN AI (Seed) - Playtron (Seed) - Aurora ($AURORA, Seed) - Ava Protocol (Seed) - Autonomys (Series A) - Bitwave (Series A) - ChainML/Theoriq (Seed) - Ecosapiens (Seed) - ETHSign ($SIGN, Seed) - Hyperbolic (Seed) - Quai Network ($QUAI, Seed) - Pixelynx (Seed) ** Founder Interviews: Babylon Network: https://techoptimist.vc/episodes/69-meet-the-startup-turning-bitcoin-into-a-yield-generating-asset Space and Time: https://techoptimist.vc/episodes/49-meet-the-startup-building-secure-data-warehouses-for-our-ever-changing-world Sahara AI: https://techoptimist.vc/episodes/47-sahara-ai-tools-to-help-you-own-and-monetize-your-personal-information Quai Network: https://techoptimist.vc/episodes/86-meet-the-startup-redefining-blockchain-speed-and-decentralization Autonomys: https://techoptimist.vc/episodes/90-meet-the-startup-revolutionizing-digital-ownership-with-ai-and-blockchain ** Blockchain Linkedin Community: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockchain-fintech-fund/
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital investment firm that manages fund families that invest in a portfolio of companies.
Raised $500,000.00 from Michael Bunning.
Entrepreneur Leadership Network Contributor
2024
Mentor - Harvard Blockchain Accelerator
2024
Managing Partner
2008
provide mentoring, interim CxO and consulting services to help startups and fortune 1000 develop innovative business strategy, venture innovation, product management
Global Partner
2013
Focusing on cross-border investments in IoT/Hardware as a Service, Robotics, SaaS, Fintech, Blockchain
Partner & Advisor
2007 - 2010
$1B+ Asia/China focused flexible stage fund
Managing Director
2004 - 2007
Leads HP's New Business Ventures to manage companywide inbound technology evaluation process, drive outbound discovery and analysis for strategic initiatives and M&A opportunities, and work with leading VCs for venture transactions and incubations.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
Co-Chair
2004 - 2004
http://www.aamasv.com
AAMA is Silicon Valley’s largest non-profit organization dedicated to the Asian American high-tech community with 10,000+ members worldwide.
Executive
1998 - 2004
- Internal Business Incubator - Corporate investment, M&A, Spinouts - Built a management consulting team across Asia Pacific covering China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Australia
Cisco DevNet is your source for everything developer at Cisco Systems.
Founder
1993 - 1998
Incubator, Head of product/project management, technology consulting, architecture and development. Worked on e-commerce, infrastructure software, media, insurance, health care and utility projects with top fortune 500 companies across US and Canada including Digital Equipment, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, National Life, Prudential Insurance, Ontario Hydro