# Lip-Bu Tan

> Lip-Bu Tan is a Series A investor at Intel backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 99 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Intel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel)
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 99
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lip-bu-tan-284a7846/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lip_bu
- Website: https://x.com/lip_bu
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lipbu.tan/

Lip-Bu Tan is a Series A investor at Intel 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$40M |
| Series A | $8M–$80M |
| Series B | $13M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 21 | 21% |
| Semiconductor | 16 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 10% |
| Analytics | 8 | 8% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 23 | 23% |
| Seed | 22 | 22% |
| Series B | 18 | 18% |
| Series C | 9 | 9% |
| Series D | 7 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 40 | 40% |
| Israel | 7 | 7% |
| India | 3 | 3% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sail Research | Infrastructure for long-horizon agents. Efficient inference and sandboxes optimized for throughput. | $80M | Series A | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| NeoCognition | 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 | 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 | 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 | Epic Microsystems develops advanced technology that boosts energy efficiency and computing performance in data centers. | $21M | Series A | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Gimlet Labs | Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on developing next-generation AI infrastructure. | $12M | Seed | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| Corintis | Corintis develops cooling technologies for high performance semiconductors. | $24M | Series A | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Clockwork Systems | 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 |  |
| Tryndbuy | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 99 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wrvi-capital) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Redline Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redline-capital-management) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Nepenthe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nepenthe-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celesta-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together

## About Intel

VC Fund · Santa Clara, United States

Intel is building on its unrivaled history of innovation to power the future of computing and communications. Intel's ambitions? A world that runs on Intel. Intel is doing this by helping its customers find the technologies and solutions that allow them to transform their businesses and gain market advantage.And it all starts with data.Intel is on a journey from a PC-centric company to a data-centric company. Intel's unmatched depth of experience and scope of vision allows it to dream big, to create a world where Intel powers the future of computing and communications—including powerful processors and accelerators that unlock the full potential of data. Intel continuously delivers advances in performance, power, and connectivity across a diversity of data-centric workloads, so its customers can harness the raw power of data.Intel's innovations span architecture, memory, software, and security to help develop transformative products and experiences for its customers. Collectively, Intel's 107,000 employees worldwide are enabling amazing experiences in 5G, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and much more.

5 contacts available at Intel.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brent Young | Vice President, Intel Corporation; Managing Director, China Corporate Strategy Office | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brent-young-5137 |
| Cristina Rodriguez | Vice President, General Manager, Network & Edge Group | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cristina-rodriguez-5528 |
| Lance Weaver | Vice President and General Manager, Data Center & Cloud Strategy, Intel Data Platforms Group | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-weaver-6a6a |
| Lip-Bu Tan | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lip-bu-tan |
| Nick McKeown | SVP and GM of Network and Edge Group | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-mckeown |

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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 99 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.

### When did Lip-Bu Tan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lip-Bu Tan closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 99 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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