# Tony Zhao

> Tony Zhao is a seed investor at Agora.io backing SaaS and Computer. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Agora.io
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tozhao/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tony.zhao.88

Tony Zhao is a seed investor at Agora.io focused on SaaS and Computer. Tony Zhao is based out of Santa Clara, California, and is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of Agora. Tony previously worked at JOYY as a director. Tony Zhao attended Peking University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Computer | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Analytics | 1 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 67% |
| China | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tuyun Space | Tuyun Space focuses on developing a common twin platform. For the universal twin platform, Tuyun Space builds technical barriers through four basic capabilities: 1. Spatial modeling; 2. Data coupling; 3. Rendering and visualization; 4. Simulation analysis. |  | Angel | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Social Chat | Social Chat enables you to engage and convert customers through social livestreams and personalized shopping experiences. | $6.2M | Seed | Oct 29, 2021 |  |
| Alluxio | Alluxio, Inc. (formerly Tachyon Nexus) team consists of the creators and top committers of Alluxio (formerly Tachyon), an open source project from UC Berkeley AMPLab. For the past three years, we have been working to revolutionize the way data is stored, accessed, and managed by focusing on a memory-centric architecture. We believe this newapproach is key to delivering the next generation storage. | $7M | Series B | Apr 16, 2020 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dark Horse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dark-horse-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Race Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/race-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Seven Seas Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seven-seas-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Volcanics Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volcanics-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Agora.io

VC Fund · Santa Clara, United States

Agora is a high-growth Communications-Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) provider delivering mobile-first, real-time communications for developers and businesses globally. Agora's API is the most widely adopted API for real-time communications around the world, installed on more than 500 million devices and rapidly growing.The Agora real-timecommunication stack includes features like include voice calling, video calling, group conferencing, interactive broadcasting, and much more. Reliable, accessible and scalable, Agoria.io provides communications services to organizations across industries, including telemedicine, education, financial services, customer service, social media applications, and mobile gaming.

5 contacts available at Agora.io.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ed Martinez | Head of Enterprise Sales | — |
| Hermes Frangoudis | Director of Developer Relations and Partner Engineering | — |
| Patrick Ferriter | SVP Product & Marketing | — |
| Reggie Yativ | CRO & COO | — |
| Robin Liu | Vice President | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Tony Zhao invest in?

Tony Zhao invests primarily in SaaS, Computer and Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Tony Zhao?

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### When did Tony Zhao last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tony Zhao closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 3 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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