# Sam Kwok

> Sam Kwok is a seed investor at Garage Technology Ventures backing Machine Learning. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Garage Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-technology-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Aug 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samkwok/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/samkwok01
- Website: https://www.garage.com/author/sam-kwok/

Sam Kwok is a seed investor at Garage Technology Ventures in San Francisco focused on Machine Learning and Consumer Research. Samuel Kwok is focused on investments in Software, Internet, Data, and Artificial Intelligence. Prior to Garage, Sam was a Director at Pacific Venture Investments in Hong Kong and Silicon Valley and a management consultant at Deloitte and Ernst & Young, where he consulted with multinational companies in the financial and technology sectors onoperations, risk, and e-commerce issues. Sam holds a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 50% |
| Consumer Research | 1 | 50% |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 50% |
| Intelligent Systems | 1 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| People.ai | People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. | $3M | Seed | Aug 24, 2016 |  |
| People.ai | People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for enterprise revenue.People.ai helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer, by capturing all customer contacts, activity and engagement to drive actionable insights across all revenue teams.People.ai empowers sales leaders to bemore effective at managing their teams and growing revenue by giving them a complete picture of sales activities and leveraging AI to deliver sales performance analytics, personalized coaching, one-on-one feedback, and pipeline reviews.The People.ai platform identifies and targets the buying group, and gives marketers a clear visualization of whom sales has spoken with, and which campaign has been successful in each opportunity. Using this information, marketers are able to build personas and deal models in order to better target their marketing efforts and get better campaign ROI.Customer success and services teams use People.ai to ensure they are engaging with the right people when the customer is handed off to them, but more importantly, these post-sales teams are constantly looking to align their effort and activities with the right opportunities and customers, tracking the true cost to support each customer. | $3M | Seed | Aug 24, 2016 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [408 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/408-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AVentures Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aventures-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Zillionize](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zillionize) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Garage Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Garage Technology Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

GARAGE TECHNOLOGY VENTURES is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund. They invest in entrepreneurial teams seeking to transform big ideas into game-changing companies.They invest in unproven teams attacking unproven markets with unproven solutions. They not interested in teams creating the nth solution to the same old problem norcompanies trying to improve things by only 10 or 20 percent.

5 contacts available at Garage Technology Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Craig Johnson | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-johnson-9 |
| Joyce Chung | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joyce-chung |
| Devon Galloway | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/devon-galloway |
| Henry Wong | Senior Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henry-wong-4 |
| Sam Kwok | Venture Partner; Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-kwok |

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## FAQ

### What does Sam Kwok invest in?

Sam Kwok invests primarily in Machine Learning, Consumer Research and Enterprise Software startups, most often at 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 Sam Kwok last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sam Kwok closed in Aug 2016. 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.

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