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Shawn Kung

Silicon Valley Angel/VC, 2x startup operator ($300M exit, $3B IPO)

San Francisco Bay Area

VC
Angel
Investor
Advisor

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Early-Stage Startups
Entrepreneurship
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Early Stage Investment
Start-up Ventures
Venture Capital
Mentoring
Team Mentoring
SaaS
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Cloud Computing
Product Management
Strategy
Distributed Systems
Agile Methodologies
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Product Marketing
Big Data
Analytics
Go-to-market Strategy

Education

Lists including Shawn

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AH

All Series A Investors

14748 people

AM
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AR

All Seed Investors

19691 people

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AA
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Ex and current Meta employees who invest

296 people

Investments

ParadeDB

Seed

Total Funding:

Work Experience

TC
Tola Capital

2024

  • Venture Partner

    2024

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

G
Greybeam

2025

  • Angel & Advisor

    2025

SU
Stanford University

2019

  • Adjunct Lecturer

    2019

    BUS 248: Venture Startup Formation Stanford Continuing Studies

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GIT100

2024

  • 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.

P
Pinecone

2019

  • Advisor

    2019

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

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Omni

2022

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

    Rockstar ex-Looker / Google founding team

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Neon @neondatabase

2022

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

    Rockstar ex-MemSQL / SingleStore founding team

C
Cohesity

2013

  • Advisor

    2013

    Advisor (2013-2015)

M
MotherDuck

2022

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

V
Vectara

2022

  • Angel & Advisor

    2022

    Rockstar ex-Cloudera and Google founding team