Larry Li
Managing Partner, Co-Founder @ Amino Capital
Palo Alto, United States
Larry Li is a Founder and Managing Partner of AMINO Capital. He leads investments in companies mostly in seed and Series A, with successful exits and high growth, such as Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Mobike (acquired byMeituan/Tencent), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (Acquired by Kuaishou/Tencent), Voyage, AIFI.io, Vicarious, Paperspace, Skycatch, Webflow, Chime Bank (Invested in 2013, and $14.5B valuation in 2020), Grail and et al. Larry also co-founded TAF (invested in ZOOM in 2011), and featured on TechCrunch List for the first check and lead VCs in 2020. In 2021, Larry was nominated to Forbes 2021 Outstanding Chinese in North Amercia among 20 business leaders, and also won Hurun 2021 US Innovation Outstanding Awards.Larry completed his B.E degree from Tsinghua University, attended Tsinghua Graduate School of Economics and Management in 1987, and completed an M.E degree at the University of Florida. Larry started his career at Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo) and came to Silicon Valley joining Veritas Technologies in 2000. Larry is a founding contributor to the Tsinghua 100 Education Fund.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
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Industries Larry Li invests in
Stages Larry Li invests in
Countries Larry Li invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (40%)
- Internet 3 (30%)
- Information Technology 3 (30%)
- FinTech 2 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (30%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (20%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
Investments
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Ember Copilot
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Ember Copilot is a Software Development firm offering a tool to reduces medical claim denials. | $4.3M / Seed / Nov 19, 2025 | |
Centauri AI
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Centauri AI is a sophisticated ETL and data science platform for banks and financial businesses that begins with Structured Finance. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Feb 27, 2024 | |
Huhu AI
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Build the most advanced AI agent for image generation and editing | $1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 30, 2023 | |
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 | |
Breinify
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Breinify’s mission is to democratize data science. Today, we have built a powerful predictive personalization at scale platform for consumer enterprises. Our lightweight platform enables consumer brand marketers to deliver powerful personalization in real-time without having to support an in-house data science team.Breinify customers includeBevMo!, Duraflame, Hidden Valley Ranch, and many more to drive $125M in new revenue, 20x results (between split testing) for 2+ page visits, and +105% in CRM growth.Breinify technology is powered by our proprietary AI which blends traditional machine learning and complex temporal algorithms to learn, react, be proactive, and make extremely granular intelligent decisions that vary for each individual at any time. In 2021, Breinify has up-sold to >80% of existing customers with incredible land and expand / GTM strategies. Breinify is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Raised a $11M oversubscribed seed round led by Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, and Streamlined Ventures. Participation from CXO Fund, Startup Capital Ventures, Amino Capital, Sterling Road, and others. | $6.2M / Seed / Apr 10, 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 | |
Oasis Labs
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Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology. They are building a new computing platform that enables cloud-scale, real-world applications with decentralized trust and privacy protection; in short, a privacy-first, high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain. | $45M / Series A / Jul 09, 2018 | |
Beyond One, Inc.
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Beyond One, an AR tech startup, is bringing people together by developing cutting edge Augmented Reality software for mobile devices and researching AR consumer content. Beyond One offers mobile AR content development and consulting services. We create mobile apps that advertise a brand’s product via interactive 3D product placement in AugmentedReality. Our advertisement strategy enables brands to reach highly targeted audiences through content relevancy and interactive gameplay, thus yielding higher customer conversions. We work with brands to create a marketing strategy, develop the AR app in house, and deploy it through the brand’s marketing networks.Beyond One created the Local Position Sync (LPS) system, which enables several people to see and interact with virtual objects in AR at the same time. Through LPS, Beyond One has conducted research on AR consumer content development to identify compelling use-cases for mobile AR. | $235K / Convertible Note / Jul 31, 2017 | |
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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Larry Li
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