Paul Tu
Principal @ MassVentures
Paul Tu is a Series B investor at MassVentures focused on Database and Security. Paul Tu has over 20 years of operational, entrepreneurial and investment experience. Paul is currently Managing Partner of Blue Ocean Equity Partners and leads the firm's acquisition activities. He is also a Venture Partner of Oxford Bioscience Partners. Most recently, Paul co-founded BGI Americas Corporation and brought BGI, a Chinesegenomics sequencing service provider, into the US market. As President of BGI Americas, Paul built a full staff and achieved positive returns within the first year of operations, and collaborated with leading pharmaceutical companies, including Merck, Pfizer, Novartis and Eli Lilly, etc..Prior to BGI Americas, Paul was a Principal at MassVentures, a Boston-based venture capital firm. Over his 10 years at MassVentures, Paul was involved in all aspects of investing and managing investments in privately held companies, including serving on their boards of directors and working closely with their executives to develop strategies, recruit senior management and secure follow-on financing. Paul's previous investments included uTest, the world's largest marketplace for software testing services and winner of the "Most Innovative Company of the Year" by American Business Awards in 2011; Inceptor Inc., a search engine marketing software company acquired by SuperMedia (NASDAQ: SPMD); and Profile Systems, a supply chain management software and service provider acquired by Comergent Technologies Inc. and subsequently acquired by Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T). Before MassVentures, Paul was Vice President at Eastern Bank Commercial Lending Group and Assistant Vice President at Bank of America (formerly Fleet Bank/Shawmut Bank) Business Banking Group. Paul holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.S. from Boston University.
- Total investments:
- 1
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Database 1 (100%)
- Security 1 (100%)
- Software 1 (100%)
- IT Management 1 (100%)
- Private Cloud 1 (100%)
Investments
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| Managing security and compliance is a strategic, economic imperative that directly impacts business outcomes. Ntirety is the only company that embeds compliant security throughout your IT and company culture. Protect the entirety of your enterprise through a comprehensive compliant security solution from a single relationship. With over 20 years ofexperience and deep security expertise, our three 24x7x365 US-based security operations centers (SOCs) simplify your risk management program with a comprehensive protection, recovery and assurance suite of services. Our approach helps you build resilient, adaptive operations throughout all your organization. Discover the award-winning Ntirety Compliant Security Solution that’s tested, proven, and trusted globally. Learn more at ntirety.com. | Series B / Mar 26, 2008 |
About MassVentures
MassVentures meets critical capital needs in the Massachusetts innovation economy, providing seed and early-stage venture funding to high growth startups as they move from concept to commercialization. The Boston-based venture firm was formed in 1978 as a quasi-public corporation by the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, governed byan independent Board of Directors, and managed by experienced venture capitalists. Leveraging the entrepreneurial spirit, educated workforce, and centers of innovation in Massachusetts, MassVentures has a track record of success with early-stage ventures.
MassVentures Contacts
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Charles Hipwood
Founder ,President & CEO
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Office Manager
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Mary Stack
Admin
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Priya Yadav
Vice President, Investments
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Rene Jarquin
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Paul Tu invests primarily in Database, Security and Software startups, most often at Series B stage. Most of the 1 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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