# Jacob Hsu

> Jacob Hsu is a seed investor at Catalyte backing Recruiting. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Catalyte
- Location: Baltimore, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobhsu
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jacobjjhsu
- Website: https://x.com/jacobjjhsu

Jacob Hsu is a seed investor at Catalyte in Baltimore focused on Recruiting and Human Resources. Jacob Hsu is the CEO Catalyte. He attended University of Pennsylvania.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recruiting | 2 | 67% |
| Human Resources | 2 | 67% |
| EdTech | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| PC Games | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 1 | 33% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Localized | Localized is a talent tech company focusing on early-stage recruitment in growth markets. Companies subscribe to access virtual career fairs and year-round recruitment and universities and talent hubs join to provide students and alumni with access to industry experts and employers. We work with universities in the Middle East, North Africa, India,China and the United States. With 85% of the world's population in emerging markets, our partners know that the future of early-stage talent recruitment is global and online. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 10, 2019 |  |
| Terminal 1 | Terminal 1 is an HR technology and service startup that provides personalized yet affordable recruitment service to connect everyone with his/her winning team.They believe that the world will be a much better place if recruitment is done probably, cost-effectively, and efficiently. Therefore, their vision is to help people, particularlyentrepreneurs, to get connected with their winning team at an affordable cost.They are working to displace localized, inefficient, manual, and often time arbitrary processes with an automated and highly accurate process. They are working to achieve their vision by building a machine readable recruitment ecosystem that allows us to “teach” machine to do recruitment, and also through promoting global mobility by creating an international network.They help entrepreneurs, hiring managers, business owners, and HR personnel to make better and faster recruitment decisions by putting ourselves in the position of their HR manager/advisor, by providing end-to-end services from employer branding, recruitment strategy planning, developing and running tailor-made technical and cultural assessment, to overall candidate experience management. They are on the mission to let everyone focus on what they are good at and to build a better team at the same time. |  | Angel | Dec 31, 2017 |  |
| Kwestr | Kwestr enables people and companies to accomplish goals, solve problems and get stuff done by breaking large problems into a gamified and manageable step by step tasks that can be shared with friends and contacts via social networks and media in a fun and engaging way.Kwestr can also help companies and brands to unify their online and offlinemarketing campaigns, engage their customer communities, push customers down the CRM funnel of conversion hurdles and receive metrics and analysis of the activities of their users and prospects.Kwestr acts as a digital sandbox for constructing social experiences for groups and individuals both online and offline. | $57K | Seed | Jun 29, 2011 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bisk Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bisk-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Michelson Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michelson-impact-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Next Wave Impact](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-wave-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [UnitedStyles](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unitedstyles) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Village Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Catalyte

VC Fund · Baltimore, United States

Catalyte is a software engineering services company that uses data science and AI to build technology workforces for forward-looking companies. Its Odyssey workforce development platform delivers exceptional and sustainable tech talent and powers transformational software engineering. Its services specialize in talent and workforce development,software engineering, technology, and process transformation, application development, and modernization that enable businesses to access affordable technology development services and scale software innovation by letting its software developers learn new technology development techniques in real-time.Founded in 2000, Catalyte is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

5 contacts available at Catalyte.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jacob Hsu | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacob-hsu |
| Christopher Papile | Co-Owner | — |
| Dan Fox-Gliessman | Principal | — |
| Emily Chong | VP of Marketing | — |
| Matthew Derella | CEO | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Jacob Hsu invest in?

Jacob Hsu invests primarily in Recruiting, Human Resources and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Jacob Hsu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jacob Hsu closed in Sep 2019. Shizune tracks 3 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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