# Michael Liou

> Michael Liou is a seed investor backing Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelliou/
- Website: https://chooch.ai/

Michael Liou is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Michael Liou is the President of Corporate Strategy and Development at Chooch. He attended Brown University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 33% |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Potato | AI research assistant for biology. | $6.6M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 | http://readysetpotato.com/ |
| Cimphony | Cimphony is revolutionizing the legal landscape for businesses! Our cutting-edge Gen AI technology platform, combined with our legal expert providers, offers fixed price or à la carte legal solutions that are up to 10x faster, more affordable, and predictably priced than traditional law firms. Our mission? To supercharge your business'sgrowth by delivering full-stack legal support for every stage of your journey - from incorporation and launch to commercial contracts, fundraising, data privacy, and employment compliance. With Cimphony, you can ditch the tedious legal legwork and laser-focus on what matters most: building your dream company. Cimphony is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Seed | Sep 28, 2024 | https://cimphony.ai |
| Viable | Viable develops a qualitative AI designed for business teams. Its platform automates the qualitative analysis of customer feedback. With Feedback Analysis Reports, customer feedback is analyzed and distilled into top complaints, compliments, requests, questions, and more via natural language reports. | $5M | Seed | May 12, 2022 | https://askviable.com |
| RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) | Remote Team offers automated payrolls, time off, HR tools, and compliance made simple. The San Francisco-based company was founded in 2020 by Sahin Boydas. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2021 | https://www.remoteteam.com/ |
| Twenty20 | Twenty20 provides a modern, real-world alternative to traditional stock photography. In the era of Instagram and the iPhone, stock photos can feel staged and uninspired. Twenty20 provides fresh, inspiring photography supplied by a global contributor community of ~ 250,000 mobile photographers. All imagery is available via a simple, royalty-freelicense. | $22.3M | Series A | Jun 18, 2018 | http://twenty20.com |
| PebblePost | PebblePost is a New York-based performance marketing company specializing in programmatic direct mail and CTV. Its Performance Marketing Engine leverages online and offline data to drive measurable, incremental outcomes at scale for the world’s top brands. With the ability to identify and reach nearly every U.S. household, and exclusive access to$100B+ in annual transactions and hundreds of billions of real-time intent signals, PebblePost delivers unparalleled precision, scale, and performance for marketing campaigns. | $7M | Series A | Mar 12, 2016 | http://pebblepost.com |
| BlockCypher | BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale. BlockCypher's web services are blockchain agnostic and greatly reduce the complexity of building applications that run on multiple blockchains. Easily build, run and future proof blockchain applications on BlockCypher's infrastructure. | $3.1M | Seed | Jan 14, 2015 | http://www.blockcypher.com/ |
| Mattermark | Mattermark is a data platform for venture capital companies to quantify signals of growing and potentially lucrative start-ups.Mattermark offers deal intelligence to the world's leading dealmakers - venture capital, private equity, corporate development, sales, and marketing professionals looking to take a data-driven approach to dealsourcing and due diligence.The company was launched in 2012 as a data platform for VCs with hopes of becoming the go-to software for firms to use when quantifying signals of growing and potentially lucrative startups. | $6.5M | Series A | Dec 16, 2014 | https://mattermark.com |
| PebblePost | PebblePost is a New York-based performance marketing company specializing in programmatic direct mail and CTV. Its Performance Marketing Engine leverages online and offline data to drive measurable, incremental outcomes at scale for the world’s top brands. With the ability to identify and reach nearly every U.S. household, and exclusive access to$100B+ in annual transactions and hundreds of billions of real-time intent signals, PebblePost delivers unparalleled precision, scale, and performance for marketing campaigns. | $1.4M | Seed | Oct 06, 2013 | http://pebblepost.com |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alpine Meridian](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpine-meridian) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [ff Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ff-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GTMfund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gtmfund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Mantella Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mantella-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Liou invest in?

Michael Liou invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Michael Liou last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Liou closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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