# Peter Hsieh

> Peter Hsieh is a Series A investor at Acorn Pacific Ventures backing Software and Analytics. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Acorn Pacific Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acornpacific-ventures)
- Location: Los Altos, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-hsieh-9165a/?locale=de_DE
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chungkao

Peter Hsieh is a Series A investor at Acorn Pacific Ventures in Los Altos focused on Software and Analytics. Peter Hsieh is based out of San Mateo, California, and is the general partner of Acorn Pacific Ventures. Peter previously worked at the Monte Jade West Science & Technology Association as a Chairman. Peter Hsieh attended Stanford University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Analytics | 2 | 29% |
| Internet of Things | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Series B | 2 | 29% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 57% |
| China | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Datometry | Datometry is empowering global enterprises to gain competitive advantage by up-leveling their data management to become cloud-native quickly and effectively. With the company’s suite of SaaS solutions, enterprises can replatform existing data warehouses to the cloud at up to 80% savings of replatforming time, cost, and risk, and withoutapplication rewrite. Powered by Datometry Adaptive Data Virtualization™ technology, the company’s SaaS offerings include: Datometry Hyper-Q™, the flagship product enabling replatforming of existing applications on any cloud database in real-time; Datometry qInsight™, the only product in the market to provide unprecedented insights into data warehouse workloads; and, Datometry qShift™ automating the generation of optimized destination data warehouse schema. | $17M | Series B | Feb 13, 2020 |  |
| Eta Compute | At Eta Compute, by building the most energy-efficient, accurate, and easy-to-deploy edge vision sensors, we help enterprises monitor their resources and optimize health, safety, energy efficiency, and utilization, to make a more productive, sustainable, and safer world for everyone. Our battery-operated AI vision sensors and modules are simple touse and deploy, bringing whole new capabilities to various business segments and serving as a catalyst for innovation. | $8M | Series A | Jan 23, 2018 |  |
| Datometry | Datometry is empowering global enterprises to gain competitive advantage by up-leveling their data management to become cloud-native quickly and effectively. With the company’s suite of SaaS solutions, enterprises can replatform existing data warehouses to the cloud at up to 80% savings of replatforming time, cost, and risk, and withoutapplication rewrite. Powered by Datometry Adaptive Data Virtualization™ technology, the company’s SaaS offerings include: Datometry Hyper-Q™, the flagship product enabling replatforming of existing applications on any cloud database in real-time; Datometry qInsight™, the only product in the market to provide unprecedented insights into data warehouse workloads; and, Datometry qShift™ automating the generation of optimized destination data warehouse schema. | $10M | Series A | Jun 22, 2017 |  |
| FarmX | FarmX helps farmers save time and resources while increasing productivity. FarmX’s FarmMap alerts growers about critical field available water content, plant stress indicators and environmental pest/ disease pressure with FarmMap Sensors. FarmMap Sensors push field data to the FarmMap cloud which provides real time analytics based onstate-of-the-art machine learning processes. The FarmMap cloud leverages multiple data sources to drive precise recommendations that drive productivity gains while reducing costs. | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 15, 2017 |  |
| Ayla Networks | Ayla Networks empowers leading manufacturers by simplifying the inherent complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling them to turn their products into smart connected systems and transform their businesses to compete in the game-changing world of connectivity. Delivered as a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Ayla’s Agile IoT platformprovides the flexibility and modularity to enable rapid changes to practically any type of device, cloud or app environment. Ayla Networks was named a 2015 Cool Vendor in the Internet of Things by Gartner, Inc. Ayla’s investors include Cisco, the International Finance Corporation, SAIF Partners, Crosslink Capital, Voyager Capital, Linear Venture and SJF Ventures. For more information, visit www.aylanetworks.com.Ayla Networks was founded in 2010 and is based in San Jose, California. |  | Series C | Jun 27, 2016 |  |
| iSoftStone | iSoftStone provides end-to-end software development and consulting services and solutions for Chinese and global clients. | $45M | Series B | Mar 01, 2007 |  |
| iSoftStone | iSoftStone provides end-to-end software development and consulting services and solutions for Chinese and global clients. |  | Series A | Nov 01, 2005 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dell Technologies Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dell-technologies-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Redline Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redline-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Acorn Pacific Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acornpacific-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Black River Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-river-ventures-5) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celesta-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cisco Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cisco-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Acorn Pacific Ventures

VC Fund · Santa Clara, United States

Acorn Pacific Ventures helps entrepreneurs execute technology strategies.

5 contacts available at Acorn Pacific Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| C.K. Cheng | Co-founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c-k-cheng-346c |
| Derek Chau | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-chau |
| Peter Hsieh | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chung-kao-hsieh |
| C.K. Cheng | Co-founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c-k-cheng |
| Howard Chau | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-chau-35f1 |

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## FAQ

### What does Peter Hsieh invest in?

Peter Hsieh invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Internet of Things startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 7 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 Peter Hsieh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Peter Hsieh closed in Feb 2020. Shizune tracks 7 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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