# Charles Shao > Charles Shao is a seed investor at TSVC (Los Altos) backing Robotics and Health Care. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [TSVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsvcap) - Location: Los Altos, United States - Total investments: 15 - Last investment: Oct 2025 - Lead investor: 0% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-shao-bb2ab7b9/ Charles Shao is a seed investor at TSVC in Los Altos focused on Robotics and Health Care. Charles Shao is the General Partner at TSVC. ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Robotics | 5 | 33% | | Health Care | 2 | 13% | | Medical Device | 2 | 13% | | B2C | 1 | 7% | | Dental | 1 | 7% | 33 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 11 | 73% | | Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% | | Series A | 1 | 7% | | Convertible Note | 1 | 7% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | United States | 11 | 73% | | Israel | 1 | 7% | | Norway | 1 | 7% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Datastrato | Datastrato is building the open data fabric platform to accelerate trusted AI. The company is the original creator of Apache Gravitino, unified metadata platform for AI - multi-cloud, multi-engine and multi-modal. | | Seed | Oct 30, 2025 | | | OpenAGI Labs | Building the world's best Computer Use model, Lux | | Seed | Sep 12, 2025 | | | RemBrain | RemBrain is a software company that provides robot training, development tools and data management solution. | | Seed | Sep 01, 2025 | | | Ridge Security | Ridge Security is a computer and network services company that offers web app and server testing, and network infrastructure solutions. | $500K | Series A | Oct 19, 2023 | | | Oculi | Oculi accelerates and improves computer/machine vision by integrating intelligence in the sensor beginning at the pixel, the actual edge. The OCULI SPUTM is the only single chip Software-Defined Vision SensorTM that provides Real-Time Vision Intelligence (VI) with Source Privacy. | $1M | Seed | Sep 11, 2023 | | | Leadoptik | Leadoptik is a California-based company is currently operating in stealth mode. | $5.2M | Seed | May 22, 2023 | | | Ridge Security | Ridge Security is a computer and network services company that offers web app and server testing, and network infrastructure solutions. | $500K | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 | | | 2Pi | 2Pi is a platform technology for optical metasurfaces that offers a new class of optical components and systems with exceptional performance, ultra-compactness, light-weight, and novel functionality for use in consumer electronics, industrial automation, automotive, and other applications. | | Seed | Jul 28, 2022 | | | Discure Technologies | Discure Technologies is developing a minimally invasive, implantable bioelectronic device designed to treat and reverse degenerative disc disease (DDD), healing the disc, reducing pain, and restoring function to patients. | | Seed | Apr 11, 2022 | | | ZETA SURGICAL | Next-Generation Surgical Navigation and Robotics | $8.8M | Seed | Mar 10, 2022 | | 10 of 15 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [Applied Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/applied-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Innovation Works](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-works) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [412 Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/412-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [99 Tartans](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/99-tartans) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Arch Grants](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arch-grants) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About TSVC VC Fund · Los Altos, United States TSV Capital (TSVC), founded in 2010 and formerly known as TEEC Angel Fund, is a leading seed fund specializing in Deeptech, Healthtech, and the Data Economy. As the first seed fund in Silicon Valley established by immigrants from mainland China, TSVC made history as the first institutional investor in Zoom. According to Pitchbook, TSVC is a topperformer in unicorn hit rates from seed investments. TSVC is driven by a team of accomplished entrepreneurs and industry experts. With a visionary approach, TSVC continues to pioneer emerging sectors and fuel future innovation, boasting a track record of 5 IPOs and 10 unicorns from over 200 high-quality investments, including Zoom, Ginkgo Bioworks, Jasper, Carta, Opentrons, Plus, Womply, Iterable, Zūm, and d-matrix. 5 contacts available at TSVC. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Charles Shao | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-shao | | Chiu Chau | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chiu-chau | | Chun Xia | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chun-xia | | Chun Xia | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chun-xia-c8eb | | David Duan | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-duan-ff3d | ## Similar investors ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ## FAQ ### What does Charles Shao invest in? Charles Shao invests primarily in Robotics, Health Care and Medical Device startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 Charles Shao last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Charles Shao closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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