AMINO Capital - partner with early stage startups for their global success

Amino Capital (a.k.a. zPark Capital) is a venture firm based in Palo Alto, focusing on seed to growth-stage investments in big data, and data-driven technologies. The firm was founded in 2012 by a unique team of over 40 technology executives and innovators from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Tencent, Alibaba, U of Chicago, Stanford U, Tsinghua U and et al. Since inception, the firm has invested over 80 seed stage companies, following with additional investments in series A and B.

Managing Partner - Sue Xu, Ph.D Sue Xu, Ph.D Managing Partner Dr. Sue Xu is Managing Partner at Amino Capital, having joined the firm in 2012. She was the founding CEO of CandyHouse and CyteSi, both Stanford lab spin-offs. Since 2012, Sue has been actively involved in seed and Series A funding rounds, contributing to the success of around 20 unicorns and over 45 companies valued at more than $100 million. These include Chime, Rippling, Grail (acquired by Illumina), Webflow, Weee, DFINITY, Replit, Oasis Labs, OmiseGo, Turing, Wyze, GetAccept, Guesty, Instawork, Wetravel, StarRocks, Karbon Card,

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