# Amino Capital

> Amino Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 194 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 194
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last fund: Nov 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aminocapital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/amino_capital
- Website: http://www.aminocapital.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aminocapitalamino

AMINO Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, with investment theme of data moat and network effect. With over $1 billion in capital under management, Amino has funded hundreds of companies in seed-to-growth stages across Consumer, PLG SaaS, Frontier Tech, and Blockchain, including 35 successful exits, around 20 unicorns and over 35companies which are valued over $100M, such as Chime, Webflow, Rippling, Grail, Weee, Replit, Turing, Dfinity, OmiseGo, Oasis Labs, Instawork, Wetravel, AIFI.io, Wyze, Writesonic, D-Matrix and Beacons.ai. Larry Li, Founder and Managing Partner of Amino Capital, is a globally recognized venture capitalist, celebrated for his visionary leadership and outstanding investment record. He has been featured consecutively for the past two years on Forbes' Midas Seed List and was named one of the top 5 artificial intelligence trendsetters of 2024. Larry also co-founded a fund in 2011 that provided angel funding for Zoom.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 62 | 32% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 46 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 27 | 14% |
| SaaS | 20 | 10% |
| Machine Learning | 18 | 9% |

216 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 107 | 55% |
| Pre-Seed | 16 | 8% |
| Series A | 16 | 8% |
| Series B | 12 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 5% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 122 | 63% |
| China | 11 | 6% |
| Singapore | 5 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Huican Zhu | Managing Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huican-zhu |
| Jack Smith | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-smith-12 |
| Jun Wu | Founding Partner and Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jun-wu-2 |
| Larry Li | Managing Partner, Co-Founder | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larry-li |
| Max Ibel | Managing Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-ibel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PhoenixAI | Grow your business with 3X greater analytics performance powered by StarRocks and backed by the enterprise support and features of CelerData | $80M | Series B | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Crimson | Crimson is a AI productivity platform that allows litigation lawyers to answer case specific questions. | $2.5M | Seed | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Veria Labs | Veria Labs is a cybersecurity company that provides AI-powered continuous penetration testing services targeting high-stakes industries. | $3.2M | Seed | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Thunder Compute | Thunder is a Cloud computing to democratize access to GPUs and solve the ongoing GPU shortage. Decentralized peer-to-peer GPU cloud computing | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| Dazzle AI | Dazzle AI is a tech company that offers an AI personal assistant. | $8M | Seed | Dec 23, 2025 |  |
| AnChain.ai | AnChain.AI develops artificial intelligence software for blockchain security, anti-money laundering (AML), and compliance investigation. Its platform combines blockchain analytics, smart contract intelligence, and transaction monitoring to detect and prevent illicit activity across digital assets and decentralized finance ecosystems.AnChain.AI’sproducts include CISO™, an AI-driven compliance and investigation operations platform that automates blockchain tracing and reporting for AML enforcement; BEI™ API, a blockchain ecosystem intelligence solution that provides real-time risk scoring and transaction monitoring across multiple blockchains; and SCREEN™, a smart contract risk evaluation engine that analyzes contract code, detects vulnerabilities, and identifies high-risk wallet activity.The company also offers Web3SOC, a security operations center for Web3 assets that monitors and responds to emerging blockchain threats. AnChain.AI’s technology supports government agencies, financial institutions, and digital asset service providers in conducting investigations, enhancing AML/CFT compliance, and managing blockchain-related risks. |  | Series B | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| besimple AI | besimple AI is a software company that provides AI-based data annotation infrastructure designed for model training. | $3M | Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Ember Copilot | Ember Copilot is a Software Development firm offering a tool to reduces medical claim denials. | $4.3M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Ember Copilot | Ember Copilot is a Software Development firm offering a tool to reduces medical claim denials. | $4.3M | Seed | Nov 19, 2025 |  |
| Maxinsights | Maxinsights aims to accelerate adoption of physical AI by delivering unmatched data quality on a global scale. |  | Seed | Nov 17, 2025 |  |

10 of 194 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 44 deals together
- [TSVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsvcap) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [UpHonest Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uphonest-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Amino Capital invest in?

Amino Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 194 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 Amino Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Amino Capital?

The team at Amino Capital includes Huican Zhu (Managing Partner), Jack Smith (Partner) and Jun Wu (Founding Partner and Advisor), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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