Shawn Kung
Venture Partner @ AV8 Ventures
Cupertino, United States
Shawn Kung is a seed investor at AV8 Ventures in Cupertino focused on Enterprise Software and Information Technology. Shawn Kung is Super Angel & Advisor with a highly successful track record with early-stage software startup winners. He has been an Angel or Advisor with a proven winning track record with startups including Facebook, Cohesity, Pinecone, Zuora, Tenable, MotherDuck, Neon.tech, Omni Analytics, Vectara and more. Based in Silicon Valley for 25+years, he is currently a Venture Partner at AV8 Ventures and an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University. Previously he was Head of Products, SaaS platform at Tenable ($3 Billion Nasdaq IPO) and Aster Data Systems (founding team, $331M exit to Teradata). Shawn has also served as Vice President, Strategic Accelerator at Micron Technology, Industry Chairman of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research in Open Source Software, and Founding Partner of LucidCloud Advisors. He earned a BA from Princeton, MS Management Science & Engineering from Stanford, and Certificate (Honors) from Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
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Industries Shawn Kung invests in
Stages Shawn Kung invests in
Countries Shawn Kung invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Enterprise Software 1 (100%)
- Information Technology 1 (100%)
Investments
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ParadeDB
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ParadeDB is a Postgres-based ElasticSearch alternative, engineered for lightning-fast full text, similarity, and hybrid search. | $2M / Seed / Sep 01, 2023 |
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About AV8 Ventures
They bring decades of experience with a hands-on approach to working closely with start-ups. Their investment and support team leverages deep technical, entrepreneurial and venture experience to help their companies succeed. Their network includes some of the brightest minds in health, machine learning, enterprise technology, mobility, robotics,hard sciences and biology.
AV8 Ventures Contacts
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Aaron Yang
Sr. Associate
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Brett Battles
Venture Partner
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George Ugras
Managing Director
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Ruchita Sinha
General Partner
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Shawn Kung
Venture Partner
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What does Shawn Kung invest in?
Shawn Kung invests primarily in Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed 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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The most recent investment recorded for Shawn Kung closed in Sep 2023. Shizune tracks 1 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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