# Shawn Kung

> Shawn Kung is a seed investor at AV8 Ventures backing Enterprise Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [AV8 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/av8-ventures)
- Location: Cupertino, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnkung
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/shawnykung
- Website: https://lucidcloud.wixsite.com/home

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Enterprise Software | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ParadeDB | ParadeDB is a Postgres-based ElasticSearch alternative, engineered for lightning-fast full text, similarity, and hybrid search. | $2M | Seed | Sep 01, 2023 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Susa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susa-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Team Ignite Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/team-ignite-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About AV8 Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

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.

5 contacts available at AV8 Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Yang | Sr. Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-yang-53e1 |
| Brett Battles | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-battles |
| George Ugras | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-ugras |
| Ruchita Sinha | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ruchita-sinha |
| Shawn Kung | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shawn-kung |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Shawn Kung last invest?

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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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