# Howie Liu

> Howie Liu is a seed investor at Airtable backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Airtable](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtable)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/howieliu
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/howietl
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/howietl

Howie Liu is a seed investor at Airtable in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Howie Liu is the Co-founder and CEO of Airtable. He attended Duke University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$6.6M |
| Series A | $12M–$65M |
| Series B | $32M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 59% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 55% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 32% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 27% |
| SaaS | 4 | 18% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 41% |
| Series A | 6 | 27% |
| Series B | 4 | 18% |
| Series C | 3 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 91% |
| France | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sundial | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search. | $5.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| 8Flow | Empowering enterprise support teams with AI and automation. | $6.6M | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Ampersand | 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 | 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 |  |
| Airplane | A platform for engineers to build internal tools. | $32M | Series B | Sep 29, 2022 |  |
| Superblocks | 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 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Greenoaks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenoaks-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ICONIQ Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iconiq-growth) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Airtable

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.It brings the database out of the realm of power users and into the mainstream, creating a new type of flexible but sophisticated productivity tool that anyone can use. Airtable gives end-users the ability to createand share their own workflows for everything from managing an editorial calendar to planning a major event. The platform helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.The company was founded by Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas, and Howie Liu in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Airtable.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Ofstad | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-ofstad |
| Howie Liu | CEO & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howie-liu |
| Kah Seng Tay | GM & Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kah-seng-tay |
| Alexander Sorokin | Lead Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-sorokin |
| Anthony Maggio | Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-maggio |

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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 is Howie Liu's check size?

Howie Liu typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$6.6M at Seed, $12M–$65M at Series A and $32M–$80M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Howie Liu participates in.

### 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.

### 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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