# John Yu

> John Yu is a seed investor at Oriza Ventures (San Francisco) backing Video and Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Oriza Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oriza-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Apr 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-yu-3602a41

John Yu is a seed investor at Oriza Ventures in San Francisco focused on Video and Software. John Yu is the Co_Founder and Founding Partner at Oriza Ventures. He previously worked as a Managing Director at WestSummit Capital. John attended Tsinghua University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 100% |
| Photography | 1 | 100% |
| Computer Vision | 1 | 100% |

7 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lucid | Lucid is a computer vision startup based out of Silicon Valley and specialized in applying AI to images and videos for analysis, summarization, and recommendation of content to increase customers' revenue, retention, and sales. | $3.7M | Seed | Apr 01, 2016 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Heuristic Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heuristic-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TSVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsvcap) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Wistron Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wistron-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Oriza Ventures

VC Fund · Santa Clara, United States

Oriza Ventures is a venture capital fund that primarily invests in early stage technological companies in the United States.Our partners were previously series entrepreneurs, angel investors, and are current professional venture capitalists; thus, we fully understand the startup process, unique culture, and the specific set of skills needed inorder to successfully grow a start-up company. Oriza was founded through the philosophy of nurturing business founders through the ups and downs of starting a company with our own experiences and resources. Oriza seeks to back talented entrepreneurs with emerging, innovative, and disruptive technological pursuits, or creative business ideas. We pride ourselves in our long-term approach to investment, and we invest in the entrepreneurs who deeply understand their market, are passionate about their product, and have the drive to cultivate their businesss towards success. Our team brings together a unique combination of a strong operating background, extensive investment experience, cross-border business development ecosystems, and well-connected networks in China and Silicon Valley.

3 contacts available at Oriza Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Liang | Co-Founder, Founding Partner, and Chief Strategist, Product Hacker | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-liang |
| John Yu | Co-Founder and Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-yu |
| Yao Xiao | Vice President, Product Hunter | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yao-xiao |

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## FAQ

### What does John Yu invest in?

John Yu invests primarily in Video, Software and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did John Yu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Yu closed in Apr 2016. Shizune tracks 1 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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