# Edith Yeung

> Edith Yeung is a seed investor at Race Capital (San Francisco) backing Software and Mobile. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Race Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/race-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/edithyeung
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/edithyeung
- Website: https://edith.co
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edithyeung

Edith Yeung is a seed investor at Race Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Mobile. Edith is a venture capitalist, technology executive, and creator of the China Internet Report, and Silicon News.Edith is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund. A few sectors we are particularly interested in are infrastructure, fintech, and deep tech verticals. She has invested in over 50 startupsincluding Agora.io (Nasdaq: API), Lightyear/Stellar (valued at $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by Apple), Chirp (acquired by Apple), Fleksy (acquired by Pinterest), Human (acquired by Mapbox), Solana, Oasis Labs, Hooked, DayDayCook, AISense, and many more.Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies. Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk.She frequently speaks on China and Silicon Valley technology and the investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and a commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, etc.Edith attended Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Purdue University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $680k–$8M |
| Series A | $1M–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 27% |
| Mobile | 11 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 18% |
| Apps | 7 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 12% |

97 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 25 | 49% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 27% |
| Series A | 6 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Angel | 2 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 34 | 67% |
| Malaysia | 2 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Bahamas | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Persana AI | Persana AI is an intelligent sales copilot that is powered by its own custom fine-tuned models. | $2.3M | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Huma Finance | Huma is an Income backed DeFi. | $8.3M | Seed | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| Social Chat | Social Chat enables you to engage and convert customers through social livestreams and personalized shopping experiences. | $6.2M | Seed | Oct 29, 2021 |  |
| Serum | Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. Itis up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will. |  | Seed | Jul 31, 2020 |  |
| FTX | FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a platform for professional trading firms. They strive to build a platform suitable for professional trading firms and intuitive enough for first-time users. FTX supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC.FTX was incubated by AlamedaResearch, a top cryptocurrency liquidity provider. Because of this, FTX has had industry order books from day one. | $8M | Seed | Aug 06, 2019 |  |
| Reby | Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs. |  | Angel | May 25, 2019 |  |
| Citcon | Founded in 2015, CITCON is a leading payment technology company, building a payment infrastructure that enables global merchants to accept payments from billions of fast-growing mobile wallet consumers through the web, mobile and in-store channels around the world. Mobile payment provides a more user-friendly, secure, and safer contactless shoppingand payment experience for both consumers and merchants compared to other payment options. CITCON’s secure, scalable and open system allows businesses to quickly and easily accept domestic and international mobile wallets by using a single API suite and an integrated processing and fund settlement platform. Millions of mobile wallet consumers are now able to shop and pay at tens of thousands of merchants, online, mobile, and in-store. Citcon is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, CITCON has five regional offices in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. | $6M | Series A | Dec 04, 2018 |  |
| Telepathic | Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue. |  |  | Jun 07, 2017 |  |
| Telepathic | Telepathic is redefining storytelling for the Snapchat generation. They believe there is a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing "lean" principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. Their first product is HOOKED, a “twitter for fiction” mobile app thatmakes reading addictive for teens. Their longterm vision is to release stories across multiple channels, including apps, video and virtual reality.The founders are Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, veterans from the mobile app world. They previously built music apps, like AutoRap, that have helped over 150MM people experience the joy of music creation. They've also produced several viral videos totaling over 300MM views. You can read more about the journey that led us to founding a storytelling startup in this piece they wrote for Vogue. |  | Series A | Jun 07, 2017 |  |
| AppOnboard | AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes. | $4M |  | May 10, 2017 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DHVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danhua-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DFJ DragonFund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfj-dragonfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Draper Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-associates-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kenetic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenetic-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Race Capital

VC Fund · Hayward, United States

Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on all things infrastructure across Web2 and Web3. They are early investors in Databricks, Vectara, Zeet, RapidAPI, Agora.io, etc and have built a top notch team spanning across networks in terms of industry background and operating experience.

5 contacts available at Race Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris McCann | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-mccann |
| Edith Yeung | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edith-yeung |
| Phil Chen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-chen-2 |
| Richard Lam | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-lam-1886 |
| Alfred Chuang | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alfred-chuang |

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## FAQ

### What does Edith Yeung invest in?

Edith Yeung invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 51 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 Edith Yeung's check size?

Edith Yeung typically joins rounds of $680k–$8M at Seed and $1M–$7M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Edith Yeung participates in.

### When did Edith Yeung last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Edith Yeung closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 51 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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