Dave Lu
Founder and Managing Partner @ Hyphen Capital
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Dave Lu is a seed investor at Hyphen Capital in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Internet. Dave Lu is currently working at Expo, Hyphen Capital, Stand with Asian Americans, Gold House, the Smithsonian Institution, and YPO.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries Dave Lu invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (36%)
- Internet 4 (18%)
- Financial Services 4 (18%)
- Information Technology 4 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (59%)
- Series B 3 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (9%)
- Series A 2 (9%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Nitra
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Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products. | $50M / Series B / Mar 10, 2026 | |
| DensityAI is an infrastructure for data centers serving automotive, robotics, and industrial applications | $50K / Seed / Dec 05, 2025 | ||
| SafeBase develops a smart trust center platform for sharing security posture and automating access to sensitive documents for enterprise programs. Its software offers custom security checklists, and continuous monitoring of security systems, and configures security policies to allow companies to implement security practices. | Series A / Jun 21, 2023 | ||
| Gamma is a provider of an AI-powered presentation platform for enterprise collaboration. Its presentation platform allows users to share links async, export PDFs, and save images. It also allows users to create unlimited presentations and websites to create content using templates and no-code updates. | Seed / May 31, 2023 | ||
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Nitra
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Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products. | $16M / Seed / Aug 23, 2022 | |
| Slope is a financial platform developer which offers a variety of payment alternatives while being paid promptly. The platform of the company provides clients with options and manages loans, underwriting, debt collection, and payout once the goods or service have been shipped, allowing businesses to pay in installments at checkout. | $8M / Seed / Nov 22, 2021 | ||
| Gamma is a provider of an AI-powered presentation platform for enterprise collaboration. Its presentation platform allows users to share links async, export PDFs, and save images. It also allows users to create unlimited presentations and websites to create content using templates and no-code updates. | $7M / Seed / Oct 28, 2021 | ||
| Omneky is an AI-agentic advertising platform that generates and orchestrates personalized omni-channel ad campaigns. By analyzing cross-channel marketing data from platforms like Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit and LinkedIn, Omneky identifies the specific design elements and messaging that drive conversions. It then leverages generative AI to quicklyproduce and launch highly tailored image and video ads across various advertising channels, helping brands optimize their campaigns, reduce creative fatigue, and ultimately increase return on ad spend. | $3M / Seed / Sep 13, 2021 | ||
| Rocket Dollar lets people unlock IRA/401(k) money to invest in alternative/private assets such as real estate, crypto, startups, private equity, venture, and more with no taxes. | $8M / Series A / Sep 09, 2021 | ||
| Poised is an AI-powered communication coach that provides personalized feedback and lessons by observing online meetings. | $4.5M / Seed / Jun 09, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Hyphen Capital
Hyphen Capital is a syndicate which invests in multi-stage companies started by AAPI founders. LPs in Hyphen include prominent AAPI founders and executives including Katrina Lake (Stitch Fix), Steve Chen (YouTube), Debby Soo (OpenTable), Deb Liu (Ancestry), Eric Ly (LinkedIn), Sam Yam (Patreon), Gokul Rajaram (DoorDash) and many others.
Hyphen Capital Contacts
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Dave Lu
Founder and Managing Partner
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Jackie Chen
Investor and LP
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What does Dave Lu invest in?
Dave Lu invests primarily in Software, Internet and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Dave Lu closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 22 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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