# Alex Wang

> Alex Wang is a seed investor at Skywood Capital backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Skywood Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skywood-capital)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexweiwang/

Alex Wang is a seed investor at Skywood Capital in Palo Alto focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Alex Wang - Founding Partner @ Skywood Capital

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 27% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Health Care | 2 | 18% |
| Generative AI | 2 | 18% |
| Virtual Reality | 2 | 18% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 64% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 64% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
| France | 1 | 9% |
| Austria | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Synthesia | Synthesia provides an AI video-generation platform that transforms text into professional videos using customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. The service allows users to create, edit, and share videos quickly, making it suitable for various applications like training and marketing. Users can utilize fully cloneable AI videotemplates and create studio-quality videos directly in their browser. | $90M | Series C | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| BRINC Drones | BRINC Drones is focused on the public safety market, we want to use drone technology to make the world a safer place for everyone. | $25M | Series A | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| Hugging Face | Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City. | $40M | Series B | Mar 11, 2021 |  |
| zGlue | zGlue is a Silicon Valley company offering a platform and process for building custom chips on demand. As businesses in the hardware space face increasingly intense time-to-market challenges, zGlue provides an innovative solution through their ChipBuilder software platform, proprietary Smart Fabric interposer, and manufacturing partnerships withworld-renowned TSMC and ASE. zGlue’s approach to accelerated product development delivers top-quality chips at an exceptional speed, offering a significant improvement in miniaturization, affordability, and scalability for custom ICs. | $9.1M | Seed | Sep 01, 2016 |  |
| ecomo | Lack of a simple yet effective pollution detector has been a major issue in this battle with water contamination. We developed the first portable and affordable device that is capable of detecting a number of water quality characteristics, including Total Organic Carbon (TOC), turbidity, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), heavy metals, and bacteria etc.This solves the problem of potential pollution factors before reaching to the end users by detecting/ remove contaminants in the water. It’s perfect for both outdoor (hiking, camping) and indoor (kitchen, office) use.Smart – Able to measure key water quality characteristics with LED indicatorSimple – Button-less design; Smartphone APP readingsPortable – Solar panel powered for outdoor useExtendible – Support filter/detector add-ons |  | Seed | Jul 24, 2016 |  |
| Cleanify | Cleanify is the first, and only, cleaning service marketplace.Cleanify gives customers access to real-time pricing & availability for cleaning providers servicing your neighborhood. Customers book a cleaning in seconds and fully manage their service online, anytime. Cleanify takes this further by offering recommended, cheapest and highestreviewed cleaner options for your service, ensuring a perfect match.Cleaners are given a platform to sell their services and choose where, when and how much they charge. Additionally, they are given business tools to manage their service and optimize their crews routes and schedules. | $1.8M | Seed | May 01, 2016 |  |
| SpaceVR | Founded in January 2015 by Ryan Holmes, CEO, SpaceVR is the world’s first virtual reality platform allowing users to #BeAnAstronaut and experience space firsthand 2000 floatation tanks across the globe with it’s patented pending waterproof, float tank compatible VR headset for super learning, deep therapy, and deep entertainment. Headlining withtwo unprecedented content pieces: Orbit Therapy and Language Learning. The former allowing everyone to experience orbiting the Earth from SpaceVR’s LIVE satellite, reducing clinical depression and diagnosed anxiety as a therapy protocol. The latter will allow anyone to super learn a language in an unprecedented 30 days. This is the beginning of hyper-accelerated learning humanity. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 28, 2016 |  |
| Alan | Alan provides online digital insurance services focusing on health and wellness. The company offers health insurance services, providing solutions tailored to the needs of different types of businesses. It provides simple and seamless insurance coverage and easy claim handling. It gives access to medical professionals for users to easily andconveniently get medical advice and manage claims and reimbursements. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2016 |  |
| VirZoom | VirZOOM Enabled Controller to propel individuals through endlessly exciting VR games. Power a horse in a race, a tank in battle, a fire-breathing dragon through mountains. Its Patent pending software controls keeps people feeling good. VirZOOM was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 04, 2015 |  |
| SimpliFlow | SimpliFlow is an Austrian/Canadian IT start-up that focused on the development of high-quality and fully automated sports and healthcare systems. SimpliFlow teamed up with renowned business partners around the world and consulted international sports physicians and pro athletes to develop FLOW, a platform unlike any other. It combines ourextensive expertise about professional sports with our technical edge. FLOW focuses on every athlete’s main challenges: competitive edge, performance, well-being and avoiding injuries. |  | Seed |  |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Addition](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/addition-7af4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Betaworks Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BOE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boe) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Skywood Capital

VC Fund · Santa Clara, United States

Skywood Capital(天木资本) is a cross-border VC fund with both fund and team based in Silicon Valley and China to support and accelerate global team's innovation in US, China and global market. The fund invest primarily in early stage and growth stage companies with excellent team and vision, disruptive technology or business model, targetingscalable and big market. Skywood Capital has a strong team of experts with extensive cross-border experiences in industry for investment, fund management, product design and engineering, technology innovation, company growth strategy, global marketing and business development (especially in US and China), human resources and recruiting, incubator setup and operation. Skywood Capital not just offers the funding for startup but also supports the startup to grow fast and healthy along the journey, with successful exit. The fund helps to enhance the global entrepreneur ecosystem and, it is considered the first choice for global startup to get into China market.天木资本，是基于全球革命性技术创新和新兴科技行业的发展趋势，整合硅谷、全球其他创新城市和国内优势资源，以资本和专业经验服务全球创新者，根据产业需求精准定位，专注于投资海外最具颠覆性和影响力的科技成果和商业创新。基金特色：● 专注中美跨境投资及并购● 对接中美欧资源● 偏重技术创新取向● 优质资产管理，运营咨询和项目合作服务

5 contacts available at Skywood Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Wang | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-wang |
| Harrison Li | Investment Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-li |
| Ranger Wang | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ranger-wang |
| Shen Cao | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shen-cao |
| Tao Hong | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tao-hong |

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## FAQ

### What does Alex Wang invest in?

Alex Wang invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alex Wang last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alex Wang closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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