Simon Tiu
Investor at Vertex Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2024 - Current
Board or help support: - Ambi Robotics (ambirobotics.com) - Clearpol (clearpol.com) - Cyberhaven (cyberhaven.com) - Evisort (Acquired by WDAY) - Hasura (hasura.io) - Lightbeam (lightbeam.ai) - Recce (datarecce.io) - Savant Labs (savantlabs.io) - SPRX (sprx.tax) - Tulip (tulip.co) - VGS (verygoodsecurity.com)
Co-conspirator
2024
Board Observer
2024
Board Observer
2024
Tulip is empowering companies to digitally transform their operations its connected, IIoT-native, no-code frontline operations platform.
Raised $152,500,000.00 from Vertex Ventures US, New Enterprise Associates, Time Ventures, DMG Mori Seiki, Pitango VC and Insight Partners.
Board Observer
2024
LightBeam.ai employs a zero-trust data protection approach to streamline and unify data security, privacy, and AI governance.
Raised $22,300,000.00 from Dropbox Ventures, Vertex Ventures US, Village Global, Alumni Ventures and 8VC.
Board Observer
2024
Board Observer
2024
VGS is the World'd Leader in Payment Tokenization
Raised $104,930,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, GS Growth and Vertex Ventures.
Board Observer
2024 - 2024
Acquired by Workday
Associate
2020 - 2023
~$100Bn+ of Tech M&A experience across Enterprise Software, Infrastructure, Data, and FinTech Selected Transactions: – $29.6Bn sale of Splunk to Cisco – $29Bn sale of Afterpay to Square – $10.7Bn sale of Anaplan to Thoma Bravo – $8.2Bn sale of Coupa to Thoma Bravo – $6.5Bn sale of New Relic to Francisco Partners & TPG – $5.7Bn acquisition of Mimecast by Permira – $2.1Bn sale of Fitbit to Google – $1.8Bn sale of Everbridge to Thoma Bravo – $1.2Bn sale of BitGo to Galaxy Digital (terminated) – $1.1Bn sale of Lucid to Cint – Acquisition of Hedvig by Commvault
Summer Associate
2019 - 2019