# Russell Yue

> Russell Yue is a seed investor at Tru Arrow Partners (San Francisco Bay Area) backing SMS and SaaS. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tru Arrow Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tru-arrow-partners)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellyue/
- Website: https://higgrowth.com/team/russell-yue/

Russell Yue is a seed investor at Tru Arrow Partners in San Francisco Bay Area focused on SMS and SaaS. Russell Yue the Vice President at Tru Arrow Partners. Russell graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in Business Finance from the Marshall School of Business. He currently co-leads the growth investing vertical for EVCA, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the pre-partner venture community.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SMS | 1 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Messaging | 1 | 50% |
| Information Services | 1 | 50% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Telgorithm | Telgorithm is a messaging platform that allows businesses (particularly SaaS providers) to build messaging services into their applications while ensuring compliance and message deliverability. We are also a hosted messaging provider, meaning that businesses who have numbers that share both voice & messaging services have the ability to(quickly & seamlessly) migrate the messaging services on those numbers to Telgorithm while retaining the voice services (on those very same numbers) with their current legacy provider (this lowers the cost to switchover). | $1.6M | Seed | Mar 18, 2024 |  |
| Telgorithm | Telgorithm is a messaging platform that allows businesses (particularly SaaS providers) to build messaging services into their applications while ensuring compliance and message deliverability. We are also a hosted messaging provider, meaning that businesses who have numbers that share both voice & messaging services have the ability to(quickly & seamlessly) migrate the messaging services on those numbers to Telgorithm while retaining the voice services (on those very same numbers) with their current legacy provider (this lowers the cost to switchover). | $790K | Pre-Seed | May 18, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amplify.LA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-la) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [I2BF Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/i2bf-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bonfire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonfire-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Daher Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daher-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fenwick & West](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenwick-west) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tru Arrow Partners

VC Fund

Tru Arrow Partners is an investment firm.

2 contacts available at Tru Arrow Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| James Rothschild | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-rothschild |
| Russell Yue | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/russell-yue |

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## FAQ

### What does Russell Yue invest in?

Russell Yue invests primarily in SMS, SaaS and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 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 Russell Yue last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Russell Yue closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 2 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?

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