Seed-stage venture capital firm backing extraordinary founders across software, life sciences, and frontier tech.

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Tsingyuan is now Foothill Ventures! šŸŽ‰ We think this change better reflects who we are and what we value - our ambition and humility. We are looking to climb the mountain (with our entrepreneurs), but the first step is just reaching the foothills, which is where we are now.
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Foothill Ventures retweeted
5 Aug 2021
Tsingyuan Ventures, a Los Altos, Calif.-based #seedstage investor, raised a $100M fund. It also rebranded as @FoothillVenture #venturecapital #vcacademy
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Foothill Ventures retweeted
13 Jul 2021
On July 17, we're hosting ex-Hobbit Eric Rosenblum of Tsingyuan Ventures for our next #AskaVC webinar. Grab a šŸ», a ā˜•ļø, or a 🄄 and join us here: bit.ly/3hAAgsY
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Foothill Ventures retweeted
7 Jul 2021
What would you have said to Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, and Marc Beinoff in the 80s knowing what you know now? Check out our new podcast episode to find out how @ttaulli; AI author, Developer, and Forbes Contributor found himself talking to these people! ā¬‡ļø youtube.com/watch?v=v_cHt8UM…
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Check out the latest article on Jack Xu, CEO of @patentpal! Learn about how the computer scientist turned Harvard lawyer turned founder plans to transform the future of patent law with technology. medium.com/tsingyuan-venture…

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Foothill Ventures retweeted
29 Jun 2021
Interested to know how our CTO developed an AI model to automate debugging? Check out the first episode of our new podcast series to learn that and much more about our CTO Avi Gopal and Metabob overall! #ai #podcast #python #startup youtube.com/watch?v=6TTEp00o…

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Check out the latest Founder’s Lessons article on Zoe Liu of Visionular, whose AV1 encoder was found to be the most efficient and performing AV1 Codec Implementation by MSU. Her journey starts from academia, to Apple and Google, then entrepreneurship. medium.com/tsingyuan-venture…
Foothill Ventures retweeted
Have You Signed up for Our Zero Trust Test Drive, Yet? Experience #ZTNA first hand to: Get visibility Start enforcing policies Increase end-user productivity ow.ly/2QwG50Fkd0r #ZeroTrust #cybersecurity #IT #CIO #DevSecOps #WFA #DevOps #CISO
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LiDAR company Quanergy to go public on NYSE through US $1.4B SPAC deal. Go go go @quanergy! So happy for you @Louel and the rest of the founding team. businesswire.com/news/home/2…

A great read from Metabob's CEO!
By developers, for developers: How Metabob’s AI tool will forever change how developers approach debugging bit.ly/3xB5RAe #SoftwareDevelopment #API #TechJunkieNews
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Great podcast with one of our favorite entrepreneurs,Ā Kamakshi SivaramakrishnanĀ (with @martykihnĀ andĀ @jillroyce atĀ Salesforce): learn about the origins of probabilistic identity solutions. paleoadtech.com/2021/06/22/7…

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Quote @martykihn: ā€œDrawbridge deserves a lot of the credit for making ā€˜probabilistic’ identity solutions credible for marketing purposes (if not others) - and the founder of that company is a woman with a PhD in Information Theory from Stanford and a legacy of great ideas.ā€
Great podcast with one of our favorite entrepreneurs,Ā Kamakshi SivaramakrishnanĀ (withĀ Martin KihnĀ andĀ Jill RoyceĀ atĀ Salesforce): learn about the origins of probabilistic identity solutions. paleoadtech.com/2021/06/22/7…

Foothill Ventures retweeted
We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with @capstoneHA! We look forward to expanding the value of more efficient medical imaging and better patient care with our #AI-powered software, #SubtlePET and #SubtleMR. #deeplearning #CapstoneHA subtlemedical.com/capstone-h…
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Read our latest article on Venture Partner John Wang. He discusses leadership as a CTO, Cisco’s acquisition of his startup, and interesting trends in deep tech medium.com/tsingyuan-venture…

There is an arms race underway in NLP models, and it's sparking a glut of interesting start-ups. We have seen ~5 start-ups in the past couple of months using GPT-3 for AI-generated ad copy. Now, new models are getting released that dwarf GPT-3: engadget.com/chinas-gigantic…

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NLP-centric companies are in one of the most innovative spaces in the internet (tagging @Goopt @akileshbapu)