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Shawn Kung

Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Shawn Kung is a Silicon Valley Angel/VC investor with a successful track record as a 2x operator of startups, including one with a $300M exit and another with a $3B IPO. He specializes in mentoring, SaaS, cloud computing, product management, and has invested in various sectors including cybersecurity, AI, and enterprise infrastructure.

Work Experience 

  • Venture Partner

    2024 - Current

    Early-stage enterprise focus. B2B SaaS, Data and AI, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity. Formation, Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A. Love technical, product-driven founders (PhDs welcome).

Tola Capital is a venture capital firm that invests globally in early-stage enterprise software companies.

  • Angel & Advisor

    2025

  • Adjunct Lecturer

    2019

    BUS 248: Venture Startup Formation Stanford Continuing Studies

  • Founder

    2024

    VP to C-Level technology executives (IT, Engineering, Data, Security) interested in advising, consulting, and investing in startups and venture capital. Exclusive community with access to top founders & VCs.

  • Advisor

    2019

    Rockstar ex Amazon (AWS), Facebook, Google founding team

Pinecone develops a vector database that makes it easy to connect company data with generative AI models.

Raised $138,000,000.00 from Sahin Boydas.

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

    Rockstar ex-Looker / Google founding team

Omni is a business intelligence platform that combines the reliability of a unified data model with the flexibility of SQL.

Raised $46,900,000.00 from Theory Ventures.

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

    Rockstar ex-MemSQL / SingleStore founding team

Neon is an open-source database company that offers a serverless Postgres platform that allows developers to build applications.

Raised $129,600,000.00 from Notable Capital, Abstract, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Menlo Ventures and General Catalyst.

  • Advisor

    2013

    Advisor (2013-2015)

Cohesity is a data management technology firm that offers hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, files, and analytics.

Raised $955,000,000.00 from NVIDIA and IBM.

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

MotherDuck provides data infrastructure and analytics for both small and big data.

Raised $100,000,000.00 from Zero Prime Ventures, Altimeter, Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona, Felicis, Redpoint and Amplify Partners.

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

    Rockstar ex-Cloudera and Google founding team

Vectara provides a generative AI product platform for embedding generative AI features into applications.

Raised $53,500,000.00 from Mack Ventures, FPV Ventures, Green Sands Equity, Fusion Fund, Race Capital, Alumni Ventures, WVV Capital and Samsung NEXT.

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