# Liping Fan

> Liping Fan is a Series C investor at Steamboat Ventures backing Big Data and Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Steamboat Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steamboat-ventures)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Aug 2014
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liping-fan-07416a2

Liping Fan is a Series C investor at Steamboat Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Big Data and Software. Liping Fan has 2 current jobs as Administrative Partner & CFO at Steamboat Ventures and Administrative Partner and CFO at RazorGator. Additionally, Liping Fan has had 2 past jobs including Sr. Financial Analyst at Merck Sharp & Dohme Sweden AB.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 2 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Analytics | 2 | 18% |
| CRM | 1 | 9% |
| Video | 1 | 9% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 27% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Photobucket | Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very bestbrowsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California. | $3.2M |  | Aug 14, 2014 |  |
| Vobile | Vobile is the worldwide leader in video and audio content protection, measurement, and monetization services. Its patented core VDNA technologies enable fully automated identification, tracking, and management of any video and audio content with high accuracy and scalability. Vobile operates the VDNA Database (VDDB), which is the most comprehensivedatabase of authorized video fingerprints, metadata, and business rules from major movie studios, television networks, and record labels. Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. | $11.3M | Series C | Dec 01, 2013 |  |
| Anova Data (Formerly Zettics) | Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems,identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators. | $8.2M | Series D | Jul 24, 2013 |  |
| Photobucket | Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very bestbrowsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California. | $5.7M |  | May 14, 2013 |  |
| Anova Data (Formerly Zettics) | Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems,identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators. | $8M | Series C | Jul 14, 2011 |  |
| Anova Data (Formerly Zettics) | Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems,identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators. | $7M | Series B | Apr 27, 2010 |  |
| Photobucket | Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very bestbrowsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California. |  |  | Dec 22, 2009 |  |
| Anova Data (Formerly Zettics) | Zettics delivers a 360° understanding of data usage, enabling operators to extract greater value from their subscriber relationships and networks while allowing the operator to fully comply with subscriber privacy policies. Zettics enables operators to monetize data with third parties, understand trends in data usage, enrich their CRM systems,identify network abuse, analyze pricing plans, enhance advertising offers, reduce churn, forecast network usage growth, and more. Zettics products deliver over 60 use cases that provide a significant return on investment to operators. | $2.6M | Series A | Jun 30, 2009 |  |
| Photobucket | Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very bestbrowsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California. | $10M |  | May 25, 2008 |  |
| Kapow Software | Kapow Software harnesses the power of legacy data and Big Data, making it actionable and accessible across organizations. Hundreds of large global enterprises including Audi, Intel, Fiserv, Deutsche Telekom, and more than a dozen federal agencies rely on our agile Big Data integration platform to make smarter decisions, automate processes, anddrive better outcomes faster. They leverage our platform to give business consumers a flexible 360-degree view of information across any internal and external source, providing organizations with a data-driven advantage. | $11.6M | Series C | Mar 06, 2008 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Voyager Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyager-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-bridge-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OPENAIR Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openair-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AT&T](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/at-t) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EDBI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edbi) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Emergence Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergence-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Steamboat Ventures

VC Fund · Glendale, United States

Steamboat Ventures was founded in 2000, and named after the famous Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie. Theatrically released in New York in 1928, Steamboat Willie was the screen debut of Mickey Mouse. It was also the first animated cartoon to use synchronized sound -- a great innovation at the time.Our mission at Steamboat Ventures is to helpyoung companies successfully face the challenges of becoming leaders in their markets. We invest in early through growth stage companies that are pursuing opportunities at the intersection of technology, media, and consumer sectors.

4 contacts available at Steamboat Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| John Ball | Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-ball |
| Liping Fan | Administrative Partner & CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liping-fan |
| Daisy Qiu | Finance Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daisy-qiu |
| Perry Chui | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/perry-chui |

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## FAQ

### What does Liping Fan invest in?

Liping Fan invests primarily in Big Data, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 11 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 Liping Fan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Liping Fan closed in Aug 2014. Shizune tracks 11 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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