Jerry Chih Yuan Yang
Founding Partner @ AME Cloud Ventures
Los Altos, United States
Jerry Chih Yuan Yang is a Series A investor at AME Cloud Ventures in Los Altos focused on Artificial Intelligence and Computer. Jerry co-founded Yahoo! in 1995 and served on its Board and as a member of its executive team until 2012. Jerry was instrumental in building Yahoo!’s relationships with Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba and continues to be a thought leader in China and Asia. Jerry currently sits on Board of Directors for Workday, Alibaba, and Lenovo. He is now a foundingmember of AME Cloud Ventures. He started AME Cloud Ventures with the belief that data, cloud, and hardware advances will create unprecedented opportunities for great companies to be built. Jerry enjoys meeting and learning from entrepreneurs with big ideas and deep tech.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Jerry Chih Yuan Yang invests in
Stages Jerry Chih Yuan Yang invests in
Countries Jerry Chih Yuan Yang invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $12M–$25M
- Series A
- $1M–$40M
- Series B
- $25M–$47M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (33%)
- Computer 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Health Care 2 (22%)
- Biotechnology 2 (22%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Series B 3 (33%)
- Seed 2 (22%)
- Series C 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 6 (67%)
- China 2 (22%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Lumen Bioscience
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Lumen Bio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing topically and mucosally delivered biologic drugs to treat and prevent highly prevalent diseases. | $30M / Series C / Oct 08, 2025 | |
Mandolin
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Mandolin delivers precision automation tools for specialty drug processing workflows. It automates the full end-to-end lifecycle of tasks such as intake & onboarding (reading referral forms, lab reports, clinical notes), benefits verification (navigating payer portals and extracting eligibility data), patient out-of-pocket estimation, medicalpolicy review and prior authorizations, and claims status plus appeals. Mandolin uses AI agents to perform many of the manual, repetitive tasks that typically occupy back-office teams. It ensures that every action is transparent, logged, and aligned with healthcare payer requirements and regulatory standards. | $40M / Series A / Jun 25, 2025 | |
Socket
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Socket is a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. We are taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities.Socket is built by a team of open sourcemaintainers with over 1 billion monthly downloads. Everyone on the Socket team is an open source maintainer. We are all driven to defend the open source ecosystem from supply chain attacks and make it safe for everyone.Socket is unique because, unlike other tools, it detects and blocks supply chain attacks before they strike, mitigating the worst consequences. | $40M / Series B / Oct 22, 2024 | |
Astrocade
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Astrocade AI is an AI-powered social gaming platform that allows anybody to create games and interactive experiences. | $12M / Seed / Jun 11, 2024 | |
Ema
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Ema is developing next-generation AI technologies to help every employee in the workplace be their most creative and productive. Ema is a seamless, accurate, and secure Enterprise Generative AI system that simplifies complex tasks using enterprise tools. | $25M / Seed / Mar 05, 2024 | |
Acepodia
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Acepodia is a novel technology platform to arm immune cells with antibodies to cure cancer. The Next Generation of Immunotherapies.Acepodia is committed to immunotherapeutic strategies against oncology – expanding our research, clinical development, and manufacturing capabilities. Acepodia currently has a broad pipeline portfolio, each targetinga different type of cancer. | $47M / Series B / Mar 16, 2021 | |
Juni Learning
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Juni is a membership-driven learning platform designed to help each student discover and pursue their passions with joy. The company offers award-winning curriculums in Computer Science, Math, and English for students 7-18 taught by near-peer instructors from top universities and access to a global community. Through project-centered courses,best-in-class technology, and the power of community, Juni’s varied learning experiences prepare students for their best future.Juni is backed by Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Y Combinator Co-founder Jessica Livingston, Arielle Zuckerberg, and more. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and was recently featured in Forbes, Fortune, WSJ, Fast Company and TechCrunch. | $10.5M / Series A / Aug 26, 2020 | |
Silicon Integrated
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startup company focus on high-performance mixed-signal IC design. | $25.3M / Series B / Jun 02, 2020 | |
8848 Titanium
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8848 Titanium is a high-tech enterprise that specializes in smartphone development. | $1M / Series A |
Co-Investors
About AME Cloud Ventures
AME Cloud Ventures invests in seed to later-stage tech companies that build infrastructure and value chains around data.
AME Cloud Ventures Contacts
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Managing Director
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Cathy Luu
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FAQ
What does Jerry Chih Yuan Yang invest in?
Jerry Chih Yuan Yang invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Computer and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 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 Jerry Chih Yuan Yang's check size?
Jerry Chih Yuan Yang typically joins rounds of $12M–$25M at Seed, $1M–$40M at Series A and $25M–$47M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jerry Chih Yuan Yang participates in.
When did Jerry Chih Yuan Yang last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jerry Chih Yuan Yang closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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 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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