iFly.vc

Principal at iFly.vc

About iFly.vc

iFly.vc was launched in 2016 as a thesis-driven seed-stage VC firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area. iFly embraces investment opportunities in spaces that may appear unglamorous but carry tremendous growth potential. The fund focuses on…

Asian grocery shopping made easy

Our investment in Weee!

Rolling up our sleeves at our portfolio company’s warehouse

How we share the journey with our founders

At iFly, part of our value-add is that we remain actively involved with our companies after the investment. We want to help out whenever and however we can…

Food and beverage from around the world

Our investment in Yummy Bazaar

Why we invested in an e-commerce startup when the sector was actually frothy

Our shared journey with BorderX Lab

In 2016, fundraising was not a smooth experience for Albert Shen and his team at BorderX Lab.

Our Investment Philosophy at iFly.vc

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”…

You Never Know Until You Try

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…

Congratulations to BorderX Lab!

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.