# Hyphen Capital

> Hyphen Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and E-Commerce. See 98 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 98
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyphencap/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/hyphencap
- Website: https://www.hyphencap.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hyphencap/

Hyphen Capital is a syndicate which invests in multi-stage companies started by AAPI founders. LPs in Hyphen include prominent AAPI founders and executives including Katrina Lake (Stitch Fix), Steve Chen (YouTube), Debby Soo (OpenTable), Deb Liu (Ancestry), Eric Ly (LinkedIn), Sam Yam (Patreon), Gokul Rajaram (DoorDash) and many others.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$1.9M |
| Series A | $7.6M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 27 | 28% |
| E-Commerce | 14 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 11 | 11% |
| Internet | 9 | 9% |

146 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 42 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 15 | 15% |
| Series A | 9 | 9% |
| Series B | 9 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 7 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 76 | 78% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dave Lu | Founder and Managing Partner | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-lu |
| Jackie Chen | Investor and LP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jackie-chen-2a78 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nitra | Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products. | $50M | Series B | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| DensityAI | DensityAI is an infrastructure for data centers serving automotive, robotics, and industrial applications | $50K | Seed | Dec 05, 2025 |  |
| StoreHub | StoreHub is the operating system of successful omnichannel businesses. The platform enables retail and F&B entrepreneurs to automate the growth of their revenue and customer base, as well as the entire process of running their operations.As a venture-backed startup, they have been growing exponentially over the last 6 years and now serve over12,000 businesses across Southeast Asia from their offices in Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Manila, and Bangkok.Its goal is to build a culture of meaningful work, where every person on the team works towards a shared vision while engaging their role in a personally satisfying manner. The people who succeed with them are most clearly defined by their competency and humility. These are the values that are most important to them and they expect this of every team member at StoreHub starting with their leadership team. | $22.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Riley AI | Riley AI builds adaptive artificial intelligence to help organizations easily transform their data into better strategies and decisions. | $3M | Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Sandbox VR | Sandbox VR is a virtual reality startup that offers a premium, fully-immersive virtual reality experience.The company combines motion capture in real time with virtual reality technology to create a new medium that is the closest thing to the Star Trek holodeck that exists. The company was founded in 2016 and has presence in the Bay Area and HongKong | $6.8M | Convertible Note | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Rosie AI | Rosie is ChatGPT for Excel—your on-call expert business analyst. She integrates seamlessly with your spreadsheets to build, update, and explain complex Excel models. Whether you're aiming to streamline data analysis or automate repetitive tasks, Rosie is designed to boost productivity and sharpen decision-making. With Rosie, Excel becomes lessabout wrestling with formulas and more about driving strategic insights. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| AfterHour | We’re a social stock market app built for everyday traders that want to find their edge in the market. Our users put their money where their mouth is by proving their live position in any callout they make. With over $200M+ in connected brokerages, we’ve become the go-to for traders to exchange their best ideas with each other.As a retail trader,how do you distinguish signal from noise? We designed AfterHour to take the best bits of Fintwit/X, subreddits, and Discord trading servers. We took it a step further by letting you see which traders actually have skin in the game.We have users with portfolios from $1,000 all the way to $78M - it makes no difference. There’s an opportunity to find people just like you to follow, learn from, and ultimately make it easier to succeed in the stock market. | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 17, 2024 |  |
| (Re)vive | Revive was born to take on a supply chain challenge that every brand faces: What should we do with slightly imperfect returns, store try-ons, display samples, or just plain old excess inventory?Without actionable data, brands only have a few (not ideal) options: costly recycling - difficult when the materials are not built to be recycled easily;donations - also difficult since donation centers cannot process that much volume; and as the last resort, incineration or destruction of the goods. Current options offer no financial recovery, and brands expect to lose the majority of asset value for deadstock.Revive is a first-in-line solution. Before recycling or donating, let our AI-powered platform show the recovered value potential of this inventory. Let us help you make a decision of whether these small damages are worth cleaning and/or repairing to be sold. Based on your decision, Revive will help realize the maximum value of this neglected inventory. | $3.5M | Seed | May 30, 2024 |  |
| Simplify | Simplify is a common application for jobs and internships. | $3M | Seed | Feb 07, 2024 |  |
| SafeBase | SafeBase develops a smart trust center platform for sharing security posture and automating access to sensitive documents for enterprise programs. Its software offers custom security checklists, and continuous monitoring of security systems, and configures security policies to allow companies to implement security practices. |  | Series A | Jun 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 98 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Hyphen Capital invest in?

Hyphen Capital invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 98 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 Hyphen Capital's check size?

Hyphen Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8M at Seed, $125k–$1.9M at Pre-Seed and $7.6M–$22M 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 Hyphen Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Hyphen Capital?

Public channels for Hyphen Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Hyphen Capital?

The team at Hyphen Capital includes Dave Lu (Founder and Managing Partner) and Jackie Chen (Investor and LP). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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