Our investment in Yummy Bazaar During the summer, we met a New Jersey-based startup called Yummy Bazaar that aims to transform the $140+ billion specialty foods market via its online platform. Specialty foods are high value food items that include unique, artisanal local products as well as authentic specialties from…

Our shared journey with BorderX Lab In 2016, fundraising was not a smooth experience for Albert Shen and his team at BorderX Lab. BorderX Lab was co-founded by Albert together with Chengdu Huang and Jun Liu in late 2014. All three of them earned PhD’s in computer science and overlapped…

Seeking Beauty in the Unsexy The world of VC investment is never short of buzzwords — big data, sharing economy, on-demand economy, O2O, VR/AR, IoT, AI, crypto, blockchain… There are also “Hard-tech”, “Deep-tech”, “Frontier-tech”, “this”-tech, “that”-tech… Each buzz has been associated with an enormous wave of start-ups and investment activities. …

How a cherry pit spitting experience relates to our VC fund Since 2002, my resume has always had one bullet point in every single version — “Dignitary Champion at the 29th International Cherry Pit Spitting Competition”. This was my favorite ice-breaker. During almost every interview, my interviewer would ask me…

BorderX Lab has raised a $20M Series B round Congratulations to the BorderX Lab team on a successful Series B! Stay tuned — we will soon share our story on why we invested in BorderX Lab and what we saw in the team. Please see here for more info on the round.

with our readers and followers As we ourselves emerge from stealth mode, we are very excited to share our perspectives on technology, investments, and trends with everyone down the road. To all our readers, we welcome feedback and look forward to connecting with everyone!

Congratulations to the BorderX Lab team on a successful Series B! Stay tuned — we will soon share our story on why we invested in BorderX Lab and what we saw in the team. Please see here for more info on the round.