# Simin Zhou

> Simin Zhou is a Series A investor at UL Ventures backing Software. See 15 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [UL Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ul-3)
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/siminzhou1
- Website: https://www.ul.com/ventures/

Simin Zhou is a Series A investor at UL Ventures focused on Software and Analytics. Simin Zhou

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$4M |
| Series A | $6.5M–$35M |
| Series B | $8.8M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 40% |
| Analytics | 5 | 33% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 13% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 27% |
| Series B | 3 | 20% |
| Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 60% |
| Singapore | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SkySpecs | SkySpecs automates the inspection, diagnostics, and maintenance of utility scale wind turbines with custom autonomous drones. The company develops an affordable form of energy, through the use of an automated drone inspection service and analytics platform that allows for repeatability, high-quality data, and safer inspections.SkySpecs wasfounded on 2012 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. | $80M | Series D | May 10, 2022 | http://skyspecs.com |
| Kyndi | Kyndi's Natural Language-powered platform helps organizations find answers in unstructured, text-based data at unparalleled speed. | $34.7M | Series A | Aug 10, 2021 | http://www.kyndi.com/ |
| Skills Union | Skills Union is a global platform that makes it easy for companies to hire and develop world-class tech teams.We work with leading employers and universities to help bridge the global digital skills gap, having placed over 500 tech professionals at leading employers including Google, Netflix, Accenture, EY and Apple. Our unique skills matchingalgorithm helps to accurately map, assess and match individuals to their job roles, providing accurate job matching, as well as personalised learning and development plans to help tech professionals further their careers. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 07, 2021 | https://www.skillsunion.com/ |
| Enduvo | Enduvo is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of virtual reality, education, and medical simulation. The company enables anyone to create, distribute, and consume rich, interactive, virtual experiences. | $4M | Seed | Jul 15, 2020 | https://enduvo.com/ |
| SkySpecs | SkySpecs automates the inspection, diagnostics, and maintenance of utility scale wind turbines with custom autonomous drones. The company develops an affordable form of energy, through the use of an automated drone inspection service and analytics platform that allows for repeatability, high-quality data, and safer inspections.SkySpecs wasfounded on 2012 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. | $17M | Series C | Dec 21, 2019 | http://skyspecs.com |
| Kyndi | Kyndi's Natural Language-powered platform helps organizations find answers in unstructured, text-based data at unparalleled speed. | $20M | Series B | Jul 10, 2019 | http://www.kyndi.com/ |
| Enduvo | Enduvo is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of virtual reality, education, and medical simulation. The company enables anyone to create, distribute, and consume rich, interactive, virtual experiences. |  | Seed | Jun 26, 2019 | https://enduvo.com/ |
| KenSci | KenSci's machine learning powered risk prediction platform helps healthcare providers and payers intervene early by identifying clinical, financial and operational risk to save costs and lives. KenSci's platform is engineered to ingest, transform and integrate healthcare data across clinical, claims, and patient-generated sources. With alibrary of pre-built models and modular solutions, KenSci's machine learning platform to integrates into existing workflows allowing health systems to better identify utilization, variation and improve hospital operations. With Explainable AI models for healthcare, KenSci is making risk-based prediction more efficient and accountable. | $22M | Series B | Feb 07, 2019 | http://www.kensci.com/ |
| SafeTraces | SafeTraces provides a biotech-powered data analytics platform for predicting, detecting, and preventing pathogen exposures. | $10M | Series A | Oct 17, 2018 | http://www.safetraces.com/ |
| Voltaiq | Voltaiq has built the industry’s first Enterprise Battery Intelligence™ (EBI) software platform, helping its customers optimize battery performance, reliability and financing, while avoiding costly recalls and catastrophic battery fires. Voltaiq’s EBI platform is the only purpose-built, fully automated software solution that marshals vastquantities of battery data from across the full product lifecycle, providing a window into real-time battery function and a detailed view into future performance and behavior. Founded in 2012 by two UC Berkeley PhDs, Voltaiq’s global customer base includes industry leaders in transportation, consumer electronics, energy storage, and the full battery supply chain. For more information, please visit | $6.6M | Series A | May 31, 2018 | http://www.voltaiq.com |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Statkraft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/statkraft-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [7BC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7bc-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aster](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aster-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Citrix Startup Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citrix-startup-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Equinor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equinor-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About UL Ventures

VC Fund · Northbrook, United States

UL Ventures is the venture investment and acceleration arm of UL. UL is a premier global independent safety science company that has championed progress for more than 120 years. Its 14,000 professionals are guided by the UL mission to promote safe working and living environments for all people. UL uses research and standards to continually advanceand meet ever-evolving safety needs. We partner with businesses, manufacturers, trade associations and international regulatory authorities to bring solutions to a more complex global supply chain.

5 contacts available at UL Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher Park | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-park-fcbc |
| Dennis Chang | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dennis-chang-2 |
| Bob Sung | Alliances & Innovations Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-sung |
| Karl Albrecht | Finance & Operations Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karl-albrecht |
| Melissa Albrecht | Director, Science and Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melissa-albrecht |

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## FAQ

### What does Simin Zhou invest in?

Simin Zhou invests primarily in Software, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What round sizes does Simin Zhou invest in?

Simin Zhou typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4M at Seed, $6.5M–$35M at Series A and $8.8M–$22M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Simin Zhou's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Simin Zhou took part in.

### How do I contact Simin Zhou?

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### When did Simin Zhou last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Simin Zhou closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 15 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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