Howie Liu
Angel Investor
San Francisco, United States
Howie Liu is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Howie Liu is the Co-founder and CEO of Airtable. He attended Duke University.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Howie Liu invests in
Stages Howie Liu invests in
Countries Howie Liu invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $50k–$6.6M
- Series A
- $12M–$65M
- Series B
- $32M–$80M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (59%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (55%)
- Machine Learning 7 (32%)
- Information Technology 6 (27%)
- SaaS 4 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (41%)
- Series A 6 (27%)
- Series B 4 (18%)
- Series C 3 (14%)
Country
- United States 20 (91%)
- France 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Sundial helps builders make meaningful use of data to fulfill their mission. It enables teams to understand the story of their product's data so they can prioritize the most meaningful goals, strategies, and tasks. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $23M / Series A / Jul 08, 2025 | ||
| Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. | $52M / Series B / Jul 07, 2024 | ||
| Decagon creates generative AI for building customer service agents that work much more like humans and its platform gives customer support team leaders more visibility into their automated customer experience operations | $30M / Series A / Jun 18, 2024 | ||
| Galileo AI creates delightful, editable UI designs from a simple text description. It empowers you to design faster than ever. | $4.4M / Seed / Feb 06, 2024 | ||
| Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search. | $5.5M / Seed / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| Empowering enterprise support teams with AI and automation. | $6.6M / Seed / Jun 01, 2023 | ||
| Ampersand is a company that creates a developer platform to assist SaaS companies in building user-facing integrations for their products. It reduces engineering and customer support time spent on creating and managing deep integrations with your customers' Systems of Record. | $4.7M / Seed / Apr 13, 2023 | ||
| Runway provides a suite of generative artificial intelligence tools that enable the creation and editing of images, videos, animations, and multimedia content using text prompts or visual inputs. The company offers models and creative tooling that support video generation from text or other media, image synthesis, and motion-aware editing within abrowser-based platform, along with APIs for integrating capabilities into external workflows. Runway’s technology includes iterative model versions such as Gen-4 and Aleph that help users direct visual style, scene continuity, and character consistency in generated sequences. Its platform also includes features for masking, compositing, motion tracking, and additional creative controls that work alongside generation models to support production workflows. Runway is positioned as an AI-driven creative toolkit for storytellers, filmmakers, and content producers seeking to prototype and produce visual content with machine learning assistance. | $50M / Series C / Dec 05, 2022 | ||
| A platform for engineers to build internal tools. | $32M / Series B / Sep 29, 2022 | ||
| Superblocks provides a platform for building internal enterprise applications, enabling development teams to create tools, workflows, and scheduled jobs using a combination of visual components and code. The platform includes a drag-and-drop UI editor, a component library, and integration with databases and APIs to streamline development processes.Superblocks allows users to automate business logic through scheduled tasks and workflow execution. The service supports secure access management, audit logging, and version control to align with enterprise security and compliance requirements. It also offers extensibility through custom code, giving teams flexibility in application behavior and design. Superblocks is designed to simplify the development and maintenance of internal tools used across business functions. | $37M / Series A / Aug 11, 2022 | ||
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FAQ
What does Howie Liu invest in?
Howie Liu invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
What round sizes does Howie Liu invest in?
Howie Liu typically joins rounds of $50k–$6.6M at Seed, $12M–$65M at Series A and $32M–$80M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Howie Liu's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Howie Liu took part in.
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When did Howie Liu last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Howie Liu closed in Jul 2025. 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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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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