Acorn Pacific Ventures
VC Fund
Santa Clara, United States
Acorn Pacific Ventures is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Acorn Pacific Ventures helps entrepreneurs execute technology strategies.
- Total investments:
- 36
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
- Fund size:
- $9M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Acorn Pacific Ventures invests in
Stages Acorn Pacific Ventures invests in
Countries Acorn Pacific Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $250k–$4.7M
- Series A
- $1.1M–$24M
- Series B
- $1.5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (28%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (19%)
- Machine Learning 6 (17%)
- Analytics 5 (14%)
- FinTech 4 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 12 (33%)
- Seed 10 (28%)
- Series B 3 (8%)
- Convertible Note 3 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (8%)
Country
- United States 25 (69%)
- Taiwan 2 (6%)
- China 1 (3%)
- France 1 (3%)
- Hong Kong 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
C.K. Cheng
Co-founder and General Partner
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Co-founder and General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
C.K. Cheng
Co-founder and General Partner
|
Co-founder and General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
|
Derek Chau
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Peter Hsieh
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Howard Chau
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expert Intelligence develops AI systems to scale expert decision-making in regulated laboratory conditions where data is restricted, stakes are high, and validation is required. | $4.7M / Seed / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| At CreatorDB we believe that influencer marketing is the most important advancement in digital advertising since it’s inception. But we also believe that brands aren’t utilizing the full potential of influencer marketing as it can be extremely difficult to nearly impossible to discover the optimal influencers to work with. Then there are severalincreasingly difficult questions for the brand to answer such as, “How do we know the influencer’s following is real?”, “Is the quote they gave us competitive?”, or “How can we engage with this influencer in a way which is natural for their audience?”East West IMG looks to answer these questions and many more by combining large amounts of data we collect ourselves with an internal creative marketing process to make sure the branding can land with the influencer’s audience. Operating since 2019, we’ve continued to evolve to match the needs of our those we work with.We also provide services to brands that only need a portion of what we offer such as influencer data or helping prepare marketing copy for an influencer campaign.The world deserves to hear about your brand so let us help you spread the message. | $4.7M / Series A / Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| Get internal RAG-based chat with document-level permissions...but ensure your IP stays behind your firewall. | $24M / Series A / Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| BentoML is the platform for AI developers to build, ship, and scale AI applications. Headquartered in San Francisco, BentoML’s open-source products are enabling thousands of organizations’ mission-critical AI applications around the globe. Our serverless cloud platform brings developer velocity and cost-efficiency to enterprise AI use cases.BentoML is on a mission to empower every organization to compete and succeed with AI | $10M / Series A / Apr 11, 2025 | ||
| Rezilient Health bridges the convenience of telehealth with the broad scope of in-person care by offering neighborhood hubs where families can get virtual access to their doctor as well as physical exams, labs, and imaging. | $10M / Series A / Oct 03, 2024 | ||
| PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items. | $3.1M / Seed / May 21, 2024 | ||
| Earthshot Labs brings together investors, carbon buyers, and land stewards in an AI powered platform to finance ecological restoration projects that are equitable for local communities. | $5.5M / Series A / May 10, 2024 | ||
| The company generates 3D patient avatars to help surgeons visualize medical images, assess surgical options, train fellows, and engage patients. | $5.4M / Seed / Feb 19, 2024 | ||
| PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items. | $1.9M / Seed / Oct 19, 2023 | ||
| Socialtrait is a developer of AI-powered solutions for predicting, measuring, and amplifying the performance of brand concepts. | $3M / Seed / Jul 15, 2023 | ||
| See all 36 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Acorn Pacific Ventures invest in?
Acorn Pacific Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Acorn Pacific Ventures invest in?
Acorn Pacific Ventures typically joins rounds of $250k–$4.7M at Seed, $1.1M–$24M at Series A and $1.5M–$20M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Acorn Pacific Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Acorn Pacific Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Acorn Pacific Ventures?
Public channels for Acorn Pacific Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Acorn Pacific Ventures?
The team at Acorn Pacific Ventures includes C.K. Cheng (Co-founder and General Partner), C.K. Cheng (Co-founder and General Partner) and Derek Chau (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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