Bill Tai
Partner Emeritus / General Partner @ CRV
Palo Alto, United States
Bill Tai is a seed investor at CRV in Palo Alto focused on Software and Information Technology. Bill Tai is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Co-Founder of OneOf. Bill previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 59
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Bill Tai invests in
Stages Bill Tai invests in
Countries Bill Tai invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$8M
- Series A
- $500k–$31M
- Series B
- $2M–$105M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (15%)
- Information Technology 9 (15%)
- E-Commerce 7 (12%)
- Apps 6 (10%)
- Internet 6 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 27 (46%)
- Series A 11 (19%)
- Series B 7 (12%)
- Series C 4 (7%)
- Angel 3 (5%)
Country
- United States 32 (54%)
- Australia 4 (7%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
- India 1 (2%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Robyn provides an AI-powered marketing mix modeling platform that helps brands optimize media spend and measure performance. | $5.5M / Seed / Apr 08, 2025 | ||
| Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law. | $7M / Seed / Oct 08, 2024 | ||
| Fairmatic offers data-driven fleet insurance that rewards safety with savings. Fairmatic uses AI-powered technology in combination with troves of telematics data to create meaningful cost savings for fleets, safer roads, and a profitable business model. Fairmatic helps fleets in proactively managing safety issues with actionable insights. | $46M / Series B / Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| As the world races toward mainstream transition to net-zero economy, digitalization and electrification, there is a huge gap in digital product & services to accelerate this transformation. We fill this gap and be the digital core of these transitions, utilizing the AI, IoT and blockchain technologies. we help enterprises to collect, manage andanalyze, share critical energy & sustainability data from facilities. We bridge the gap between the data that businesses have and the valuable insights they need to extract from it. | $2.4M / Seed / Nov 09, 2022 | ||
| Fairmatic offers data-driven fleet insurance that rewards safety with savings. Fairmatic uses AI-powered technology in combination with troves of telematics data to create meaningful cost savings for fleets, safer roads, and a profitable business model. Fairmatic helps fleets in proactively managing safety issues with actionable insights. | $42M / Series A / Aug 31, 2022 | ||
| Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces. | $3.9M / Seed / Jun 13, 2022 | ||
| An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar. | $4.7M / Seed / Jan 24, 2022 | ||
| Algen Biotechnologies is a therapeutic discovery company that builds a platform to decode functional gene networks. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $5.4M / Seed / Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| Class provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software on the Zoom Meetings platform to help teachers take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, or talk one-on-one with a student. | $105M / Series B / Jul 28, 2021 | ||
| Archipelo develops an intelligent code discovery engine for software developers. Archipelo is the San Francisco, California. | $8M / Seed / Jul 17, 2021 | ||
| See all 59 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About CRV
CRV has been an investor in technology companies for almost half a century. The firm has backed nearly 400 startups in its 47-year history, including foundational companies like Twitter, Zendesk, Amgen, Hubspot, Parametric Technologies, Yammer, EqualLogic, and Sonus Networks. Half of the companies CRV has backed have gone public or been acquired.The firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and deep-insight bioengineering.
CRV Contacts
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Bruce Sachs
Partner Emeritus
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Devdutt Yellurkar
Non-Investing Partner
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James Green
General Partner
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Matthew Garratt
General Partner
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Veronica Orellana
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Bill Tai invest in?
Bill Tai invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 59 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bill Tai's check size?
Bill Tai typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$8M at Seed, $500k–$31M at Series A and $2M–$105M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bill Tai participates in.
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When did Bill Tai last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bill Tai closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 59 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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