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Stanley Yuan

Serial entrepreneur / Technology investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $25,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $15,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder

    2021

    Neural Networks Capital is a Texas-based family office that focuses on investing in frontier technologies and entrepreneurs who are solving some of the biggest challenges facing our planet. Neural Networks Cap focuses on the following key themes, which are key learnings from its founder decade-plus work in the internet and technology industries -Platform companies with built in feedback loops, network effects and declining / zero marginal costs -Vertically integrated machine learning applications with short distance to sensor data and embedded data flywheel -New industrial technologies that will scale exponentially with rapidly declining cost curves as a function of units produced -Entrepreneurs deeply motivated by the scale and urgency of the problems they are solving with solutions grounded in first principle thinking -Products and experiences that connect our global communities, including metaverse, virtual economies and next generation gaming Select investments: -Tesla -SpaceX (private) -xAI / Grok (private)

  • Founder

    2025

    From Grok, GPT, Claude to DeepSeek and beyond - discover what others are creating, try it yourself, and share your AI creations with the world.

2020

  • Founder

    2020

    A note-sharing app that distills the world's most powerful ideas Join our collaborative community simplifying valuable information – whether it's books, podcasts, videos or just a unique insight of yours – into short Memos you can read in the time it takes to buy a coffee.

2014 - 2019

  • Founder (acq'd by audio platform w/ 250m users)

    2014 - 2019

    Netflix for audiobooks and knowledge. Company sold to largest audio platform w/ 250m users in 2018. Venture-backed startup with distribution partnerships with Uber, Samsung, and Apple. Stanley was profiled in the Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine and industry publications with his innovations in the digital media space.

2012 - 2014

  • Investment Banking Analyst (internet & media focus)

    2012 - 2014

    Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group •Ranked top-tier analyst Selected projects: • Alibaba's $25 billion IPO and $8 billion syndicated loan • Goldman's investment into Wandoujia (SnapPea), a mobile search and app distribution company, in its Series B financing that totaled $120 million, with participation from SoftBank, DCM, and Innovation Works