Huican Zhu
Managing Partner @ Amino Capital
San Francisco, United States
Huican Zhu is a seed investor at Amino Capital in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. Dr. Huican Zhu is a Founder and Managing Partner at AMINO Capital. Huican joined Google in 2000 and was responsible for many significant Google researches. He was a pioneer of Google’s image search and the first Senior Chinese Engineer and Senior Manager at Google. From 2010 to 2012, he was Chief Architect and General Manager of Infrastructure atTencent. Dr. Zhu has received high praise for his excellent computer vision research capability. He completed his B.E. degree at Sun Yat-sen University, M.S. degree at the National Academy of Science, and PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Huican has a strong academic reputation, and his research results have over 12,000 citations. He is currently a board member of Weee, Innogrit, Anchain, Qury, MaxFun, Yiqixie, and Cloudfort, and has over 10 years of experience in investing in fast-growing companies like AppFolio (NASDAQ: APPF). Dr. Zhu joined the UC Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees in 2019 and is a board member of Harker School and president of Zhu Family Foundation.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Huican Zhu invests in
Stages Huican Zhu invests in
Countries Huican Zhu invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (40%)
- FinTech 2 (20%)
- Cyber Security 2 (20%)
- Machine Learning 2 (20%)
- Apps 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (30%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (20%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
Investments
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Benepass
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Benepass is a benefits administration platform that helps companies manage and distribute employee perks and benefits. Through deep investments into the company's financial technology infrastructure, Benepass has made it easy for employers to offer global benefits that are personalized to every employee. The Benepass platform offers employeesfour different ways to spend their benefit dollars globally: card, mobile wallet, reimbursements, and a marketplace. | $12M / Series A / Sep 29, 2021 | |
AnChain.ai
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AnChain.AI develops artificial intelligence software for blockchain security, anti-money laundering (AML), and compliance investigation. Its platform combines blockchain analytics, smart contract intelligence, and transaction monitoring to detect and prevent illicit activity across digital assets and decentralized finance ecosystems.AnChain.AI’sproducts include CISO™, an AI-driven compliance and investigation operations platform that automates blockchain tracing and reporting for AML enforcement; BEI™ API, a blockchain ecosystem intelligence solution that provides real-time risk scoring and transaction monitoring across multiple blockchains; and SCREEN™, a smart contract risk evaluation engine that analyzes contract code, detects vulnerabilities, and identifies high-risk wallet activity.The company also offers Web3SOC, a security operations center for Web3 assets that monitors and responds to emerging blockchain threats. AnChain.AI’s technology supports government agencies, financial institutions, and digital asset service providers in conducting investigations, enhancing AML/CFT compliance, and managing blockchain-related risks. | $10M / Series A / Aug 12, 2021 | |
SwingVision
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SwingVision is a real-time AI stats, highlights and line-calling mobile application for ball & racket sports. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 15, 2021 | |
d-Matrix
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D-Matrix is developing a platform that enables data centers to handle large-scale generative AI inference with high throughput and low latency. The company’s offering includes the Corsair™ inference accelerator card, the JetStream™ I/O networking accelerator, and the SquadRack™ rack-scale system, all designed to work together to deliverefficient inference compute. Their technology brings memory and compute closer together, embedding processing inside memory to reduce data movement, improve speed, and energy efficiency. The stack also includes software tools for deployment, model debugging, and performance monitoring, enabling enterprises to scale inference workloads across models and usage scenarios. | Seed / Jan 13, 2021 | |
Turing
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Turing is an IT company that allows startups, businesses, and organizations to hire software engineers. Founded in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York, United States. | Series B / Sep 03, 2020 | |
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SwingVision
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SwingVision is a real-time AI stats, highlights and line-calling mobile application for ball & racket sports. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States. | $600K / Pre-Seed / Apr 09, 2020 | |
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AnChain.ai
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AnChain.AI develops artificial intelligence software for blockchain security, anti-money laundering (AML), and compliance investigation. Its platform combines blockchain analytics, smart contract intelligence, and transaction monitoring to detect and prevent illicit activity across digital assets and decentralized finance ecosystems.AnChain.AI’sproducts include CISO™, an AI-driven compliance and investigation operations platform that automates blockchain tracing and reporting for AML enforcement; BEI™ API, a blockchain ecosystem intelligence solution that provides real-time risk scoring and transaction monitoring across multiple blockchains; and SCREEN™, a smart contract risk evaluation engine that analyzes contract code, detects vulnerabilities, and identifies high-risk wallet activity.The company also offers Web3SOC, a security operations center for Web3 assets that monitors and responds to emerging blockchain threats. AnChain.AI’s technology supports government agencies, financial institutions, and digital asset service providers in conducting investigations, enhancing AML/CFT compliance, and managing blockchain-related risks. | $4.3M / Seed / Feb 13, 2020 | |
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AnChain.ai
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AnChain.AI develops artificial intelligence software for blockchain security, anti-money laundering (AML), and compliance investigation. Its platform combines blockchain analytics, smart contract intelligence, and transaction monitoring to detect and prevent illicit activity across digital assets and decentralized finance ecosystems.AnChain.AI’sproducts include CISO™, an AI-driven compliance and investigation operations platform that automates blockchain tracing and reporting for AML enforcement; BEI™ API, a blockchain ecosystem intelligence solution that provides real-time risk scoring and transaction monitoring across multiple blockchains; and SCREEN™, a smart contract risk evaluation engine that analyzes contract code, detects vulnerabilities, and identifies high-risk wallet activity.The company also offers Web3SOC, a security operations center for Web3 assets that monitors and responds to emerging blockchain threats. AnChain.AI’s technology supports government agencies, financial institutions, and digital asset service providers in conducting investigations, enhancing AML/CFT compliance, and managing blockchain-related risks. | Seed / Aug 01, 2018 | |
Frenzy AI
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Built by eCommerce experts and USC's leading data scientists, Frenzy gives eCommerce sites AI superpowers for a fraction of the inhouse cost. Companies using our Frenzy AI generate $150K in new sales and increase conversion rates by 200-400% within the first 3 months of usage on average. | Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2018 | |
Narvalous
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Narvalous was founded in 2010 in Palo Alto, CA. The company is well-known among the game developing industry as the leading Facebook game publisher, showing proven success in revenue generation, user base growth and retention. Their cross-cultural focus has guaranteed quality of the localization and optimization of games from various countries inmany platforms. Visit and get more of their gaming experiences at their website, http://www.Narvalous.com. | $2.3M / Angel / Feb 26, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Amino Capital
AMINO Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, with investment theme of data moat and network effect. With over $1 billion in capital under management, Amino has funded hundreds of companies in seed-to-growth stages across Consumer, PLG SaaS, Frontier Tech, and Blockchain, including 35 successful exits, around 20 unicorns and over 35companies which are valued over $100M, such as Chime, Webflow, Rippling, Grail, Weee, Replit, Turing, Dfinity, OmiseGo, Oasis Labs, Instawork, Wetravel, AIFI.io, Wyze, Writesonic, D-Matrix and Beacons.ai. Larry Li, Founder and Managing Partner of Amino Capital, is a globally recognized venture capitalist, celebrated for his visionary leadership and outstanding investment record. He has been featured consecutively for the past two years on Forbes' Midas Seed List and was named one of the top 5 artificial intelligence trendsetters of 2024. Larry also co-founded a fund in 2011 that provided angel funding for Zoom.
Amino Capital Contacts
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Huican Zhu
Managing Partner
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Jack Smith
Partner
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Jun Wu
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Larry Li
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Max Ibel
Managing Partner
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What does Huican Zhu invest in?
Huican Zhu invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and Cyber Security startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Huican Zhu closed in Sep 2021. Shizune tracks 10 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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