VC  Amino Capital

https://www.aminocapital.com/





     Office Locations:

346 Emerson
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone: 650-924-7198

 

Stages:

  • Early
  • Growth
  • Seed


 

Industries:

  • Communications & Networking
  • Information Technology
  • Software & Internet

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    Description:

    AMINO Capital is a venture firm based in Palo Alto, focusing on seed to growth-stage investments in data-driven technology startups that later became unicorns, such as Grail, Webflow, Weee!, Chime Bank, Rippling, Dfinity, etc. Since 2012, over 260 startups have been funded by Amino. The firm's early stage investment theme: Data Moat + Network Effect. Prior to founding AMINO Capital in 2012, Larry Li initiated an angel fund with a few other friends, that fund invested in ZOOM in an angel round in 2011. The firm was founded in 2012 by a unique team of over 80 technology executives and innovators from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Tencent, Alibaba, U of Chicago, Stanford U, Tsinghua U and et al. Since inception, the firm has invested over 130 seed stage companies, following with additional investments in series A and B. Until today, there are 6 full time partners based in Palo Alto, with additional 12 team members between Palo Alto and Asia.


     

    Funds:


      Fund Name


      Amount


      Date

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    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Huican Zhu Managing Partner
    Jack Smith Partner
    Larry Li Managing Partner
    Maximilian Ibel Partner
    Sue Xu Managing Partner

     

    Recent Funding Events (trailing 12 months):


      Date


      Name


      State


      Amount


      Stage


      08/22/2024


      Thera


      NY


      $4,000,000


      Seed


     

    Portfolio companies include:


      AnChain.AI
        web link


      Breinify
        web link


      Chime Bank


      Dfinity


      Enveda Biosciences
        web link


      Femtosense
        web link


      Grail


      Justpoint


      Rippling


      Thera
        web link


      Visbit
        web link


      Webflow


      Weee!


     

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