# Translink Capital

> Translink Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 171 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 171
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last fund: Aug 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/translink-capital/
- Website: http://www.translinkcapital.com

Translink Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. For US-based startups, identifying and accessing strategic partners in Asia can sometimes seem like a daunting challenge. With TransLink Capital’s support, guidance, and relationships with the most significant companies in Asia, our portfolio companies can develop the necessary long-term partnerships to transform their businesses and expand in Asiaand beyond.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.6M–$24M |
| Series B | $9.9M–$42M |
| Series C | $10M–$58M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 25 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 20 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 17 | 10% |
| Mobile | 13 | 8% |
| Health Care | 12 | 7% |

170 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 42 | 25% |
| Series B | 38 | 22% |
| Series C | 24 | 14% |
| Seed | 17 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 7% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 73 | 43% |
| China | 8 | 5% |
| South Korea | 7 | 4% |
| Taiwan | 4 | 2% |
| Israel | 3 | 2% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC Cheng | Venture Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dc-cheng |
| Eric Hsia | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-hsia |
| Brian Tomogane | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-tomogane |
| Hong Chen | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hong-chen |
| Jackie Yang | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jackie-yang |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WindBorne Systems | WindBorne develops, manufactures, and operates a network of long-duration smart weather balloons. The company collects atmospheric data for weather forecasting, climate research, and environmental monitoring. The company uses high-altitude balloons equipped with sensors to gather data from various layers of the atmosphere. These balloons cancapture precise and comprehensive atmospheric measurements. By providing high-resolution atmospheric data, WindBorne Systems contributes to more accurate weather predictions, which can help mitigate the impacts of severe weather events. | $37M | Series B | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Fhenix | Fhenix is the first private blockchain that uses completely homomorphic encryption. Fhenix's use of fhEVM allows Ethereum developers to write encrypted smart contracts and perform encrypted data computations while utilizing Solidity and other familiar, easy-to-use tools. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 22, 2025 |  |
| Atolio | Get internal RAG-based chat with document-level permissions...but ensure your IP stays behind your firewall. | $24M | Series A | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| Makersite | Product life cycle management involves making design decisions based on multiple criteria including cost, compliance, sustainability, and risk. Unfortunately, the data and expertise required to make these decisions are siloed. This protracts the process of innovation and increases its complexity. Today, the market solves this problem withvertical applications like PDM, ERP, CAD, EHS, SCM, etc. These mostly remain siloed due to the enormous costs of integration and keeping data synchronized. Therefore, analyses typically require exporting data to aggregation tools e.g. BI or excel before being used for analyses in specialist decision support applications. Results are typically delayed, some taking as much as 9 months, and therefore provide little support during the design process. Makersite provides results instantly and simultaneously across key product criteria.Makersite combines external and internal data sources to create a digital twin of a product in design. Artificial intelligence and our graph-based data model allow for ingesting, representing, and connecting heterogeneous data easily. Its native applications use ground-breaking algorithms to support analysis and decision making based on multiple criteria simultaneously including should-costs, regulatory compliance, life cycle impacts (LCA), supply chain risk, etc. Our API-first architecture allows for easy integrations into existing IT infrastructures thereby supporting systems and processes with richer, fresher, and more timely product data.This allows engineers to understand and improve their designs from the perspective of their regulatory compliance, environmental impact, supply risk, and cost of production, simultaneously. Companies can get results up to 40x faster than traditional methods while making their products better. | $70.4M | Series B | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| Foundation EGI | The EGI platform from the Foundation is designed to speed up all phases of the product development cycle, from design and research to production and documentation, enabling engineers to create better products more quickly and effectively. | $23M | Series A | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| Jobright | Jobright is an AI-native job platform providing a career agent that finds, customizes, and submits applications on behalf of job seekers. The company provides the Jobright Agent that improves every aspect of the job search experience, shifting the paradigm from manual, reactive processes to intelligent, proactive career advancement. | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Hilo | Founded in Switzerland in May 2018 out of a passion to turn insights into action in the fight against hypertension, Aktiia’s groundbreaking medical technology provides people and their physicians comprehensive insights into blood pressure patterns that will inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Now available in the United Kingdom,Aktiia has received its CE Mark as a Class IIa medical device - signifying that the device has been assessed to meet high safety, health and environmental protection requirements in Europe. To learn more, visit Aktiia.com. | $42M | Series B | May 01, 2025 |  |
| Rescale | Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time tomarket. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale.In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California. | $115M | Series D | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| Pakal Technologies | Pakal Technologies is a developer of IGTO-based semiconductors intended to revolutionize the IGBT market. The company's semiconductors use IGTO, a silicon device, that is a drop-in replacement for IGBTs and provides a significant performance upgrade, providing clients with efficient, scalable, and compatible semiconductors. | $25M | Series B | Jan 29, 2025 |  |
| BeZero Carbon | BeZero Carbon is here to build markets and environmental assets, starting with the Voluntary Carbon Market. | $32M | Series C | Jan 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 171 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Translink Capital invest in?

Translink Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 171 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 Translink Capital's check size?

Translink Capital typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$24M at Series A, $9.9M–$42M at Series B and $10M–$58M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Translink Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Translink Capital?

Public channels for Translink Capital include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Translink Capital?

The team at Translink Capital includes DC Cheng (Venture Partner), Eric Hsia (Managing Director) and Brian Tomogane (Principal), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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