# Tom Chiu

> Tom Chiu is a seed investor at Enspire Capital backing Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Enspire Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enspire-capital)
- Location: Saratoga, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Nov 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomchiu
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/_tom_c_
- Website: https://x.com/_tom_c_

Tom Chiu is a seed investor at Enspire Capital in Saratoga focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. - Board of Director at Sand Hill Angels (2012-2014). Advisory Board at Sand Hill Angels (2014-2016)- Venture Partner @ Enspire Capital- Angel investor and advisor. Mentor at PlugAndPlay Tech Center Retail Accelerator, Spark Labs, Standford University GSB, Carnegie Mellon University, and Santa Clara University Entrepreneurship Program.-Founder of IPforAsia, an intellectual property marketplace to bridge between Greater China and large U.S. corporations.Direct Investments: Movable Ink, Double Dutch, Fiscal Note, Kiana Analytics, ThinAir, EchoLabs, Sensel, Prodigy, ReplyBuy, Bytelight, Clean Power Finance, Retailigence, Linc Global, FusionPipe, HiQ Solar, Sonoma Cider, Glue Networks, Mon.ki, Clear Spring, Figure 8 Surgical, PicCollage, Spinnakr, Remotek (Taiwan)Fund Investments: Quest Venture Partners Fund II, SparkLabs Global Fund, 500 Startup Fund II, Tandem Capital Fund II and III

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $400k–$2M |
| Series A | $1.3M–$3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Mobile | 2 | 20% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 20% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 80% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RETAILIGENCE | Retailigence is a hyperlocal marketing platform that utilizes brick-and-mortar inventory data obtained directly from retailers to turn online consumers into offline buyers. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 12, 2019 | http://www.retailigence.com |
| Datatron | Datatron provides an automated Enterprise scale model monitoring and model governance platform for all of your ML, AI, and Data Science models in Production. We are entirely Vendor, Language, and Framework agnostic, including, SAS, H20, Python, R, Sckit Learn, Tensor Flow, and more, via a user-friendly UI. Our offerings primarily include:- ModelDeployment - Model Monitoring - Model Governance - Model ManagementAnd many more features automated to make AI model management easy. | $1.4M | Seed | Jan 29, 2018 | https://www.datatron.com |
| Pathover (Mixbowl) | Pathover is an API-based software that optimizes every step of the last mile, from demand and resource management to delivery logistics.The last mile is the least efficient and most expensive leg of the supply chain, comprising up to 28% of the total cost of delivery. E-commerce giants such as Amazon have built their business models with thisproblem in mind. However, many industries, specifically the grocery industry, that have been designed over decades with brick-and-mortar stores in mind, are not equipped to transition into e-commerce and manage the complicated logistics process.Physical stores and online marketplaces can now integrate with Pathover to automate their last mile process, saving time and money (on average 71%). Pathover's proprietary AI and machine learning technology provides the tools for merchants to fulfill orders quickly, load-balance demand across all stores, and find the fastest and cheapest delivery options to customers. |  | Convertible Note | Jul 15, 2016 | https://www.pathover.com |
| ReplyBuy | ReplyBuy enables businesses to start and manage personalized conversations with consumers, at scale, using our two-way text messaging platform. We make it easier than ever for businesses to reach their audience on today's preferred device - the mobile phone. Our turnkey solutions are enabling sales, marketing, and support teams to buildmeaningful relationships with their audience faster, with a personalized one-to-one conversation. What separates ReplyBuy from other communication platforms is our patented mobile-commerce technology, giving a business the ability to collect payment whenever a consumer responds with a simple "BUY" response.Sports teams and entertainment organizations such as the Yankees, Blackhawks, Sporting KC, Phoenix Rising and Playhouse Square are increasing ticket sales, event attendance and donations from fans and supporters using ReplyBuy. Colleges such as USC, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Texas, Clemson, and Nebraska are generating new revenue and increasing engagement amongst their prospects, students, and alumni using ReplyBuy. Our text messaging solutions have helped hundreds of businesses across the nation unlock a new communication channel that is to-date producing up to 60% engagement rates. Entertainment organizations and educational institutions using ReplyBuy are building stronger relationships with their audience 4x faster and 10x more effectively than cold calling and emailing. Some have already seen up to 23x ROI in their first 30 days of use.Unlock personalized conversations at scale with two-way text messaging for business with ReplyBuy. Your audience is texting you. Are you texting them? Text-enable your existing landlines today! | $2M | Seed | Oct 05, 2015 | http://replybuy.com |
| Kiana Analytics | Kiana Analytics Their founding team's experience in Big Data analytics has driven Their technology goals towards providing an entirely new depth of customer understanding through Presence Analytics. Kiana can help retailers increase store performance and sales conversion by matching web-based vendor capabilities to analyze customer trafficbefore the Point of Sale. | $1M | Convertible Note | Apr 30, 2015 | https://kiana.io |
| ByteLight | ByteLight is the location-based marketing solution for big retail. ByteLight’s location-based marketing solution uses existing lighting infrastructure to pinpoint consumer location with unmatched accuracy. The company’s consumer engagement platform allows retailers to deliver hyper-targeted content to any shopper with a smartphone, based onprecisely what aisle—or part of the aisle—they’re currently shopping.ByteLight’s game changing location-based marketing solution uses retailers’ own lighting infrastructure to deliver custom content to consumers based on their exact location in-store—without the need for batteries or beacons. For more information, visit: http://www.bytelight.com | $3M | Series A | Oct 25, 2013 | http://www.bytelight.com |
| mon.ki | mon.ki shows you where the people you know live, lived or grew up so you can get valuable advice and introduction through them. At mon.ki we believe that the people we know are fundamental in shaping our opinions and making smarter decisions. These people become even more important when you move or travel abroad: Who knows an english speakingdoctor? Where should I live? What school for my kids? Good tax advice?Starting today mon.ki is going into limited beta. Join the network of expats and global citizens and shape the tools that will make moving and living abroad a lot easier. | $400K | Seed | Apr 26, 2012 | http://mon.ki |
| Movable Ink | The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to accelerate their marketing performance. Movable Ink is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the U.S. and has been recognized by Inc. Magazine’s “Best Workplaces” (2019-2022) and Built In NYC’s “Best Places to Work” (2018-2022), as well as Inc. 5000, Crain's Fast 50, andDeloitte's Technology Fast 500. Headquartered in New York City, Movable Ink and its more than 600 employees serve its global client base from operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.Movable Ink activates any data into personalized content in any customer engagement and is a powerful extension to the technologies that marketers use today. The platform easily connects to all relevant data—no matter where it lives—updates based upon a recipient's most recent interactions, and is auto-generated by the platform.Learn more about us at movableink.com. | $1.3M | Series A | Jul 13, 2011 | http://movableink.com |
| FusionPipe Software Solutions Inc. | At FusionPipe we are passionate about authentication and developing the best innovative technologies for global enterprises. Our software solutions are cost effective, easy to implement & deploy, user-friendly & scalable. Our extensive R&D efforts and strategic partnerships focus on delivering the best possible authentication solutionthat address the increasing concerns of data security, identity management and compromised end point devices and networks. FusionPipe's experienced team and customer-centric approach ensure that our solutions for smartphones, wearables and smaller form factors in the IoT of the future, will provide Enterprise customers with much more convenient yet very secure authentication to increase productivity and security. Our solutions are software based and use devices that people already own, providing a much lower total cost of ownership, reduced overhead and improved end-user experience.Please visit FusionPipe for more information: http://fusionpipe.com http://www.quikid.com @FusionPipe |  | Seed |  | http://www.quikid.com |
| ReplyBuy | ReplyBuy enables businesses to start and manage personalized conversations with consumers, at scale, using our two-way text messaging platform. We make it easier than ever for businesses to reach their audience on today's preferred device - the mobile phone. Our turnkey solutions are enabling sales, marketing, and support teams to buildmeaningful relationships with their audience faster, with a personalized one-to-one conversation. What separates ReplyBuy from other communication platforms is our patented mobile-commerce technology, giving a business the ability to collect payment whenever a consumer responds with a simple "BUY" response.Sports teams and entertainment organizations such as the Yankees, Blackhawks, Sporting KC, Phoenix Rising and Playhouse Square are increasing ticket sales, event attendance and donations from fans and supporters using ReplyBuy. Colleges such as USC, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Texas, Clemson, and Nebraska are generating new revenue and increasing engagement amongst their prospects, students, and alumni using ReplyBuy. Our text messaging solutions have helped hundreds of businesses across the nation unlock a new communication channel that is to-date producing up to 60% engagement rates. Entertainment organizations and educational institutions using ReplyBuy are building stronger relationships with their audience 4x faster and 10x more effectively than cold calling and emailing. Some have already seen up to 23x ROI in their first 30 days of use.Unlock personalized conversations at scale with two-way text messaging for business with ReplyBuy. Your audience is texting you. Are you texting them? Text-enable your existing landlines today! |  |  |  | http://replybuy.com |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arizona Tech Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arizona-technology-investor-forum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Authentic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/authentic-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capital Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-factory) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Contour Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/contour-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Enspire Capital

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Enspire is one of the largest Singapore family office fund that makes fund and direct investment in Greater China and Silicon Valley. Our main office is in Taipei with presence in Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Bay Area. We focus our direct investment in early stage technology companies in the area of Telecommunication, Media and Technology (TMT),Internet and Mobile. Through fund investment, we also seek to invest in expansion stage companies from the fund portfolio. We bring deep sector expertise, operational excellence, Asia insight and network to our portfolio companies and funds.

5 contacts available at Enspire Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CHAY Kwong Soon | Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chay-kwong-soon |
| Chia-Hung Huang | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chia-hung-huang |
| Kathy Ku | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathy-ku-2 |
| Lung YEH | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-lung-yeh |
| Philip M. Lau | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philip-m-lau |

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## FAQ

### What does Tom Chiu invest in?

Tom Chiu invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Tom Chiu's check size?

Tom Chiu typically joins rounds of $400k–$2M at Seed and $1.3M–$3M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tom Chiu participates in.

### How do I contact Tom Chiu?

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### When did Tom Chiu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tom Chiu closed in Nov 2019. Shizune tracks 10 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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