Shawn Kung
Investor
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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.