Holly Liu
Visiting Partner @ Y Combinator
San Francisco, United States
Holly Liu is a seed investor at Y Combinator in San Francisco focused on Software and Blockchain. Holly Liu is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of PKO Investments. She attended the University of California Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Total investments:
- 34
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Holly Liu invests in
Stages Holly Liu invests in
Countries Holly Liu invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $120k–$5M
- Series A
- $10M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (21%)
- Blockchain 7 (21%)
- Gaming 6 (18%)
- Cryptocurrency 4 (12%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (62%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (18%)
- Series A 4 (12%)
Country
- United States 22 (65%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Taiwan 1 (3%)
- Vietnam 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more. | $5.4M / Seed / Sep 09, 2024 | ||
| Forge is fast, automatic, always-on game capture. Users can download Forge for free. It costs nothing and there are zero ads, just gaming entertainment. | $11M / Seed / Oct 18, 2023 | ||
| Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Jan 11, 2023 | ||
| Chaos Genius is a provider of a DataOps observability platform for improving data infrastructure efficiency. It has developed a unique data infrastructure observability and optimization product that’s initially aimed at Snowflake Inc.’s cloud data warehouse platform. Organizations can save money on Snowflake by receiving automated recommendationsto optimize their workloads, identify inefficient queries, and improve query performance. The platform analyzes Snowflake workloads with millions of queries using query patterns to identify inefficient queries and provides intelligent recommendations that significantly improve performance.The company was founded in 2021 by Preeti Shrimal and Harshit Surana. The company is based in Palo Alto, California. | $3.3M / Seed / Jan 03, 2023 | ||
| Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Dec 08, 2022 | ||
| Trend is a curated marketplace of influencers and brands. They help brands source high quality user generated content and targeted exposure with social media influencers. They love working with new, innovative companies that are changing the game. They’ve been fortunate to work with brands like Chameleon Cold-Brew, Health-Ade Kombucha, FabFitFun,Saatva Mattress, Mighty Swell, Mark Cuban Companies, and more.Reach an engaged audience anywhere in the country with the click of a button. The Trend community consists of thousands of talented, creative personalities that they hand-select and personally invite to join. Their influencers have audiences that like, comment, and genuinely engage with their content. On average, posts through the Trend network engage with over 20,000 followers per post and more than 600 likes per post. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Jul 14, 2022 | ||
| AI-First Video Editor for Marketing and Corporate Training | $6.7M / Seed / May 01, 2022 | ||
| AI-First Video Editor for Marketing and Corporate Training | $2M / Seed / Apr 07, 2022 | ||
| Block Tackle is a San-Francisco-based studio dedicated to creating the first generation of fun-first blockchain games. It is actively building an engaged community around its debut game, SkateX, in the run-up to its highly anticipated drop of a collection of 3D animated skateboard NFTs. | $5M / Seed / Mar 22, 2022 | ||
| Toonsutra is a developer of a webtoon comics application. It aims at featuring a range of content for audiences across superhero, fantasy, romance, sci-fi, Bollywood, mythology, action, and more and is available for download on both iOS and Android devices. The application helps users to get access to new stories every day from creators andstorytellers in and outside India in English, Hindi, and other regional languages. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Mar 16, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Y Combinator
Y Combinator invests a standard amount of capital in exchange for equity and through uncapped safe agreements. Participants engage in a three-month intensive cycle that focuses on product development and preparations for fundraising. The firm offers access to a private networking platform for knowledge sharing and hosts events featuring speakers from various sectors. This program culminates in a presentation event where founders showcase their businesses to a curated group of investors.
Y Combinator Contacts
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Boris Jabes
Visiting Partner
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Luther Lowe
Head of Public Policy
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Max Kolysh
Visiting Partner
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Brad Flora
Group Partner
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Calvin French-Owen
Visiting Group Partner
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FAQ
What does Holly Liu invest in?
Holly Liu invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 34 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 Holly Liu's check size?
Holly Liu typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$9M at Seed, $120k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$100M 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 Holly Liu participates in.
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When did Holly Liu last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Holly Liu closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 34 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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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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