# John Wu

> John Wu is a seed investor in San Francisco backing Men's, EdTech and Fashion. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-wu-259561

John Wu is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Men's and EdTech. John Wu

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Men's | 1 | 14% |
| EdTech | 1 | 14% |
| Fashion | 1 | 14% |
| Consumer | 1 | 14% |
| Robotics | 1 | 14% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Angel | 1 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 2 | 29% |
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Singapore | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Theta One | We're making Generative AI-enhanced SaaS tools to integrate conversational AI language learning experiences for classrooms worldwide. | $770K | Pre-Seed | Jul 05, 2024 |  |
| Theta One | We're making Generative AI-enhanced SaaS tools to integrate conversational AI language learning experiences for classrooms worldwide. | $725.9K | Seed | Jul 05, 2024 |  |
| temi | Temi The Personal Robot - The New Way To Connecttēmi is the world's first, truly intelligent, mobile, personal robot for your home, that places you at the center of your technology, including smart home devices, online content and video communications – harnessed by the power of your voice.Featuring state of the art AI, and a system ofsensors and cameras, tēmi will seamlessly enter your life, perfectly navigating the most dynamic environment you can imagine. tēmi offers you an effortless way to connect with online content and friends. This is the personal robot experience we have always imagined, and using it is as easy as turning on a light.The temi team Is committed to a robotic future that empowers and enhances human abilities, enriches human experiences and delivers intuitive, reliable and fun products that are usable by all. We have worldwide HQs in San Francisco, New York, Tel-Aviv, Shenzhen, and Singapore. The temi team is making this vision a reality. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 25, 2020 |  |
| temi | Temi The Personal Robot - The New Way To Connecttēmi is the world's first, truly intelligent, mobile, personal robot for your home, that places you at the center of your technology, including smart home devices, online content and video communications – harnessed by the power of your voice.Featuring state of the art AI, and a system ofsensors and cameras, tēmi will seamlessly enter your life, perfectly navigating the most dynamic environment you can imagine. tēmi offers you an effortless way to connect with online content and friends. This is the personal robot experience we have always imagined, and using it is as easy as turning on a light.The temi team Is committed to a robotic future that empowers and enhances human abilities, enriches human experiences and delivers intuitive, reliable and fun products that are usable by all. We have worldwide HQs in San Francisco, New York, Tel-Aviv, Shenzhen, and Singapore. The temi team is making this vision a reality. | $21M | Series B | Dec 19, 2018 |  |
| Chope | Chope is a website that enables users to find and reserve restaurants in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok, Phuket, Jakarta, and Bali through the company’s www.chope.co, mobile apps, and plug-ins.The company offers two solutions for restaurants: a sophisticated table management system that integrates customer relationshipmanagement functions and a lighter browser-based platform. Both provide restaurants real-time control over their online availability.In addition to online reservations, it also provides diners with in-house editorials, a summary of press coverage, menus, pricing, and operational information for the listed restaurants. It also serves as an additional marketing channel for client restaurants via an active social media team and targeted offline marketing initiatives.Chope was launched by Arrif Ziaudeen and Clowie Tan in June 2011 and is based in Singapore. | $8M | Series C | Jun 29, 2015 |  |
| YBR | YBR is a clothing customization platform as well as the official supplier of formal wear. YBR creates customized services that are more accessible and cost-effective for customers through digital strategy, full-category customization, and global fabric direct procurement strategy. YBR relies on a cloud tailoring system and big data application toenable partners, to build a more flexible and agile customized supply chain, increase customized production efficiency, and innovate customized production methods. |  | Series A | Jan 13, 2015 |  |
| OSell | Founded in March 2010, OSell is one of the first pilot companies (Cross-border e-commerce company) approved by China’s Ministry of Commerce; meanwhile, it is also the official partner of Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2016 and the incubation platform that successfully turns over 15 million Chinese manufacturing companies into globalwell-known brands owners, global suppliers and global cross-border e-commerce firms. As the top cross-border e-commerce company and leading brand in China, OSell has been through every stage in the development of the cross-border e-commerce. In 2014, the Customs Clearance Service Platform for Cross-Border E-Commerce was launched by China’s General Administration of Customs; it was OSell that first successfully go through customs clearance for cross-border e-commerce. In the meantime, OSell is the largest platform of B2B cross-border e-commerce within the nation that Chinese manufacturing relies on to go out; OSell is also the first platform of Cross-Border Internet of Commerce, who advocates global businesses to build a global new commerce complex through the Internet.In the era of Internet Plus, OSell Group takes full advantage of the unlimited opportunities offered by the huge market involving a population of approx. 4.4 billion and a total economy volume of approx. 21 trillion dollars of the emerging economies and developing countries along ‘the Belt and Road’ and the rapid growth of the market; meanwhile, OSell not only makes full use of a series of favorable policies which are consecutively introduced by national authorities that have positive impact on promotion of cross-border export, but pays huge attention to the obstacles that export companies encounter in the course of developing new overseas markets and exporting in accordance with traditional export process and makes full integration of global resources that are relevant to the ‘Belt and Road’. As a result, the ‘Two Parks for Two Countries’ business mode for cross-border e-commerce is formally introduced.By establishing OSell industrial parks for cross-border e-commerce at the gathering place of domestic industry belts and successfully constructing industry-belt cities by means of attracting investment, boutique showcase and cross-border mass entrepreneurship and innovation center, the’ Two Parks for Two Countries’ mode successfully creates the innovative foreign trade mode which consists of Cross-border B2B Intelligent Marketplace and Cross-border B2B Branding and Trading Center, and adopts the sharing economy mode to integrate strong partners in the target market in order to build a comprehensive distribution network that fully covers the entire target market for Chinese export companies. Moreover, OSell launches the new FBO (Fulfillment By OSell), namely Full Performance Service for Cross-border Order, providing the shortest path for Made- in -China products to go abroad by providing one-stop and integrated export solutions.So far, the three major business segments under OSell, namely Cross-border B2B Franchising Service Center, OConnect Cross-border Branding and Trading Center and OSell Industrial Park for Cross-border E-commerce, have been preliminarily formed.Currently, OSell has established the overseas localized service offices and China-oriented brand sample experience centers in Moscow (Russia), Warsaw (Poland), Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Dubai (United Arab Emirates), New Delhi (India), Toronto (Canada), Duisburg (Germany), Jakarta (Indonesia), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and other countries and regions, gathering top-level talents from home and abroad in brand, marketing, operation, logistics and channel building; in the meantime, it also set up localized overseas team to integrate all local resources from abroad. Domestically, OSell has established a large number of branch offices in major cities in China, such as Chongqing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Xuzhou, Hangzhou, Taizhou, Hefei, Guizhou, Mianyang, Qingdao, Urumqi, Karamay, Luoyang, Jiaozuo, Xi’an, Wuzhou, Datong and other cities. |  | Angel | May 01, 2010 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pareto Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Strong Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/strong-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [DSG Consumer Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dsg-consumer-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Frontier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontier-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Generali Investments Europe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/generali-investments-europe) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does John Wu invest in?

John Wu invests primarily in Men's, EdTech and Fashion startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did John Wu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Wu closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 7 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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