# Ellen Ma

> Ellen Ma is a seed investor at Silicon Valley Race backing Artificial Intelligence and Internet. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Silicon Valley Race](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silicon-valley-race)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yalunma

Ellen Ma is a seed investor at Silicon Valley Race in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Internet. Ellen is an investor at UpHonest Capital, focusing on consumer products, marketplaces, softwares, and healthcare. Ellen leads UpHonest's media efforts in China through Silicon Valley Race (aka硅兔赛跑). Silicon Valley Races has over 30 million viewership in China with over 100k followers in Chinese VC communities. Prior to UpHonest Capital, sheworked in finance, consulting, auditing and banking.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$6.5M |
| Series A | $10M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 13% |
| Internet | 4 | 11% |
| Software | 4 | 11% |
| Health Care | 4 | 11% |
| Wellness | 3 | 8% |

84 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 8% |
| Series A | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |
| Series E | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 26 | 68% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| M.AI Unbound | AI Agent built for Marketing to automate Marketer's workflows and maximize ROI. | $25M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Turing | Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $111M | Series E | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| M.AI Unbound | AI Agent built for Marketing to automate Marketer's workflows and maximize ROI. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| Cosine | Buildt AI is generative AI to write iOS or Android native apps from some simple text requirements written by a customer - no code or technical information or experience required. This is not just a web app or a spreadsheet with a layer of UI. Buildt will automatically ‘write’ real code based on the simple requirements provided by the customer.Wealso interviewed technical executives/managers from companies such as Robinhood, Uber, and Cazoo and they were also extremely positive about using Buildt to build internal MVPs, product prototypes and quickly build their "CRUD" apps. Their existing experience with "no code" apps is that they are extremely limited to web apps only and can't satisfy their requirements accurately. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 12, 2024 |  |
| MoeGo | MoeGo is a pet grooming software for your schedules, messages and payments. | $24M | Series A | Mar 04, 2024 |  |
| Rollstack | Rollstack is a powerful tool for building stunning charts and visualizations for your slides and documents. With Rollstack, you can easily create professional-grade graphics that will impress your audience and make your data stand out. | $1.8M | Seed | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Klarity Health | Klarity provides nurse practitioners and physician assistants with the marketing, software, and human resources they need to succeed in offering profitable telehealth services online. | $10M | Series A | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| Sameday | Sameday uses AI to answer phones, respond to chats, and follow up with in the same way that a salesperson would. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Tranch | Tranch brings payment flexibility to B2B by offering expense financing services for fast-growing businesses. With Tranch, businesses can spread bulky expenses and take control of the cash flow on their terms and prioritise spend on growth, without compromising on the tools they need. Tranch transforms how businesses pay with Grow Now, Pay Later. | $5M | Seed | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Hedgehog | Hedgehog’s technology enables fungi cultivation for <1/4th the cost. Their AI-driven discovery platform identifies microbiomes that enable fungi to be grown at >1000x the scale. This enables low-cost production of fungi-based products like mushrooms, mycelium protein, feed amendments, and bulk animal feed. Hedgehog was founded in 2022. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 08, 2022 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [UpHonest Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uphonest-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [RiverPark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverpark-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Silicon Valley Race

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

A cross-border media that reports startups and technologies in the U.S. to Chinese audience.

1 contacts available at Silicon Valley Race.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ellen Ma | Chief Innovator & Editor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellen-ma |

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## FAQ

### What does Ellen Ma invest in?

Ellen Ma invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 38 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 Ellen Ma's check size?

Ellen Ma typically joins rounds of $150k–$6.5M at Seed and $10M–$24M 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 Ellen Ma participates in.

### When did Ellen Ma last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ellen Ma closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 38 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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