# Amino Capital

> Amino Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Internet. See 10 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Sep 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aminocapital
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/amino_capital
- Website: http://www.aminocapital.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aminocapitalamino

AMINO Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, with AI investment theme of data moat and network effect. With over $1 billion in capital under management, Amino has funded hundreds of companies in seed-to-growth stages across Consumer, PLG SaaS, Frontier Tech, and Blockchain, including 35 successful exits, around 20 unicorns and over 35 companies which are valued over $100M, such as Chime, Webflow, Rippling, Grail, Weee, Replit, Turing, Avoca, Dfinity, OmiseGo, Oasis Labs, Instawork, Wetravel, Equityzen (acquired by Morgan Stanley, , AIFI.io, Wyze, Writesonic, D-Matrix and Beacons.ai. Amino Capital is continuously redefining the infrastructure of VC by building an AI-powered ARM (Amino Resource Management system) and LP Expert System (LPM) — real-time, transparent LP-GP collaboration. The system tracks over 10,000 startups, automatically generating dynamic analyses and scoring profiles.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Amino Capital. Shizune tracks 6 team members at Amino Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/amino-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 20% |
| CRM | 1 | 10% |
| Legal | 1 | 10% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Huican Zhu | Managing Partner | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huican-zhu |
| Jack Smith | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-smith-12 |
| Jun Wu | Founding Partner and Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jun-wu-2 |
| Larry Li | Founder & Managing Partner | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larry-li |
| Max Ibel | Managing Partner | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-ibel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chatsimple | ChatGPT for your business made simple. AI Virtual Agent trained using your website and data. Set up in 10 clicks, engage customers 24/7 | $2.3M | Seed | Sep 15, 2026 | https://chatsimple.ai |
| Concorda | Concorda is a legal tech platform helping teams manage contracts, automate workflows, and streamline business operations. | $3.8M | Seed | Sep 08, 2026 | https://www.concordahq.com/ |
| AirPair | AirPair is a consultation development company that provides development resources and helps businesses complete projects. Its staff includes professionals with experience across many technology stacks and solutions.AirPair accelerates software development by pairing its team with its clients’ engineers in real time via video and screen sharing.The company specializes in remote consulting and pair programming.AirPair was founded in 2013 by Maksim Ioffe, Jonathon Kresner, and Igor Lebovic. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Seed | Mar 14, 2014 | http://www.airpair.com |
| Assemblage | It has always been about the user. By showing the future of collaboration today, we provide the tools and the infrastructure to enable a new kind of simple real-time interconnectedness between people, companies and browsers. | $1.3M | Seed | Feb 13, 2014 | https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collaboration/index.html?ccid=cc001100 |
| Droplet Robotics Inc. | Droplet is a smart sprinkler system that combines the latest technology in robotics, cloud computing and connected services to transform the way sprinkler systems function. Droplet keeps your plants healthy without wasting water by drawing upon a vast system of data to intelligently determine how best to care for your plants. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2014 | http://smartdroplet.com/index.html |
| Contastic | Contastic is the simple lead nurturing system that knows who you need to follow up with and generates emails with personalized content for you to send to remain relevant. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2014 | http://www.getcontastic.com |
| Avail Medsystems Telepresence Technology | Avail is a digital healthcare company providing a dedicated procedure room hardware/software platform with telepresence and software hosting capabilities. The complete Avail system enables the MedTech industry and healthcare providers to work together more often and more efficiently, harnessing expertise and technology in and out of theoperating room to accelerate the innovation, adoption, and reach of tools and techniques to improve patient care. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Silicon Valley, California. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2014 | https://www.avail.io/solution/technology/ |

7 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amino Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zpark-venture) — VC Fund, 20 deals together
- [a16z speedrun](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-speedrun-bc13) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cherry Tree Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherry-tree-investments-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FundersClub](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundersclub) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Amino Capital invest in?

Amino Capital invests primarily in Software, Internet and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Amino Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Amino Capital?

The team at Amino Capital includes Huican Zhu (Managing Partner), Jack Smith (Partner) and Jun Wu (Founding Partner and Advisor), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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