Lip-Bu Tan
Founder, Chairman @ Walden International
San Jose, United States
Lip-Bu Tan is a Series A investor at Walden International in San Jose focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Lip-Bu Tan is based out of Santa Clara, California, and is the Chief Executive Officer of Intel. Lip-Bu previously worked at Cadence Design Systems as a President and Chief Executive Officer. Lip-Bu Tan attended Nanyang Technological University.
- Total investments:
- 103
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Lip-Bu Tan invests in
Stages Lip-Bu Tan invests in
Countries Lip-Bu Tan invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$40M
- Series A
- $8M–$80M
- Series B
- $13M–$70M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 22 (21%)
- Artificial Intelligence 21 (20%)
- Semiconductor 16 (16%)
- Information Technology 10 (10%)
- Analytics 8 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 23 (22%)
- Seed 22 (21%)
- Series B 18 (17%)
- Series C 9 (9%)
- Series D 7 (7%)
Country
- United States 40 (39%)
- Israel 7 (7%)
- India 3 (3%)
- China 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Infrastructure for long-horizon agents. Efficient inference and sandboxes optimized for throughput. | $80M / Series A / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| NeoCognition is an AI research lab specializing in self-learning AI agents that achieve expert-level intelligence through autonomous adaptation to specific domains. company develops generalist agents that continuously learn workflows, structures, and constraints in real-world environments like software and websites. This enables them to specializeon the job, becoming faster, more cost-effective, reliable, and safer for high-stakes applications—addressing reliability issues in current AI systems that succeed only about 50% of the time. | $40M / Seed / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| Cognichip is an AI-first deep tech company focused on transforming the semiconductor industry by revolutionizing how chips are designed. The company has developed Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI®), the world’s first physics-informed AI foundation model specifically tailored for semiconductor design | $60M / Series A / Apr 01, 2026 | ||
| Sycamore provides an operating system for enterprises to build, deploy, and manage autonomous AI agents. The platform enables organizations to generate production-ready applications, integrations, and agents from natural language input while maintaining oversight and security. Agents operate under a progressive trust framework, allowing them togain autonomy based on performance, with all actions being auditable and governed.The system captures organizational knowledge and supports continuous learning, enabling multi-agent coordination and adaptation over time. It integrates security, compliance, and governance features to ensure controlled and traceable operations. Sycamore also facilitates experimentation with agent behavior, safety, and meta-learning to improve enterprise workflows through automated intelligence. | $65M / Seed / Mar 30, 2026 | ||
| Epic Microsystems develops advanced technology that boosts energy efficiency and computing performance in data centers. | $21M / Series A / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on developing next-generation AI infrastructure. | $12M / Seed / Oct 22, 2025 | ||
Corintis
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Corintis develops cooling technologies for high performance semiconductors. | $24M / Series A / Sep 25, 2025 | |
| Clockwork Systems is a technology company that offers network-software solutions designed for high-performance, time-sensitive workloads, such as AI training, financial trading, online gaming, and distributed systems. The company's core product, FleetIQ, provides real-time fleet-level workload monitoring, traffic flow classification,congestion mitigation, and resilience to link and NIC failures. Its time-synchronization technology delivers nanosecond accuracy across large clusters, enabling systems to remain highly coordinated and reliable.The company's solution runs on standard commodity network interface cards (NICs) and Ethernet switches and supports deployment across public clouds, on-premises data centers, or hybrid environments. It supports customers by offering visibility into connectivity, latency, path quality, and job-level metrics, helping reduce failures and improve GPU utilization. | $20.6M / Series A / Sep 10, 2025 | ||
| Try & Buy is a deep tech company in the area of computer vision and artificial intelligence and has developed applications such as virtual try –on of dresses, face recognition based surveillance and face recognition based payment. Try & Buy's technology is protected by its more than 70 International Patents , out of which 9 Patentsare granted in US. Try & Buy is the winner of Amazon's Innovator of the Year 2020 Award for making World's Most Advanced Virtual Trial Room. The company has developed proprietary software which offers virtual try-on solutions to be implemented at fashion e-commerce platforms and offline stores. Through the plug-ins, shoppers can try-on clothes virtually while browsing online . At offline stores , users can interface with Try & Buy’s virtual try on screens. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 10, 2025 | ||
| Pokee AI is an AI company that offers an interactive, personalized, and efficient AI agent that helps in planning, reasoning and tool usage. | $11.9M / Seed / Jun 10, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Walden International
Walden International is unique among US venture firms through its focus on cross-border investments that leverage global markets and talent to grow industry-leading companies. For more than 30 years, their integrated team has brought extensive added value to help companies through capital, relationships and expertise.They look to partner with thebest of the best – entrepreneurs with a strong appreciation for the benefits of leveraging talent and markets independent of geography to gain unfair advantage.Their team brings both extensive venture expertise together with in-depth operating experience to help you grow your company.They invest in early and expansion stage companies across sectors such as Semiconductors, Clean Tech, Internet & Digital Media and Software.
Walden International Contacts
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Andrew Kau
Managing Director
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Brian Chiang
Managing Director
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Carson Chen
Venture Partner
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Cliff Higgerson
Venture Partner
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Donald Shumka
President and Managing Director
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FAQ
What does Lip-Bu Tan invest in?
Lip-Bu Tan invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Semiconductor startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 103 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 Lip-Bu Tan's check size?
Lip-Bu Tan typically joins rounds of $3M–$40M at Seed, $8M–$80M at Series A and $13M–$70M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lip-Bu Tan participates in.
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When did Lip-Bu Tan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Lip-Bu Tan closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 103 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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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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