William Tai Overview
- Investor Type
- Angel
- Status
- Active
- Investments
- 58
- Portfolio
- 26
- Exits
- 23

William Tai General Information
Description
Dr. William Tai is a Co-Founder of Sangha Capital. Dr. Tai is a Co-Founder & serves as Chairman at Metagood. Dr. Tai is a Co-Founder & serves as Special Limited Partner at ACTAI Ventures. He serves as Advisor at Stack Capital Group. He serves as Advisor & Global Ambassador at Powerledger. He served as Board Member at Glyde. He also serves as Advisor at CoinCircle. He also serves as an Advisor at Tango. He also serves as a Partner at MaiTai Global. He serves as Head of Strategy Committee, Board Member & Advisor at BitFury. He also serves as Advisor at Kickfurther and Emercoin. He is a prolific individual investor and entrepreneur, serving as the Founding Chairman of Treasure Data; a Board Director of BitFury, and a Board Director of Voxer. He served as Board Member at Scribd. He is also a lead investor as an individual in Canva, Shoes of Prey, Tango.me, Tweetdeck/Twitter and Zoom.us. He established the Silicon Valley office for Charles River Ventures and is a Partner Emeritus backing Ark, Maxthon, and Wish.com on CRV's behalf. Previously he served as a Partner at IVP and was Founding CEO of iAsiaWorks (IPO 2000 via Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley). He was Founding Chairman of IPinfusion (Tokyo:4813) and past Board Director of 7 publicly listed companies: AWRD EGHT IAWK NPIX TMTA TUNE and IMGO. He serves on the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Committee is an Adjunct Professor of Innovation at Curtin University in Perth Australia. He started his career as a computer chip designer and previously worked for semiconductor behemoth TSMC. He holds a BSEE with Honors from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Harvard. He serves as Advisor at Power Ledger.
Contact Information
- San Francisco, CA
- United States
William Tai Investments (58)
Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
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Fathom (Communication Software) | 24-Jan-2022 | Seed Round | 00.00 | Communication Software | Startup | |
00000 000000000000 | 28-Jul-2021 | 00000 00000 | 00000 | Educational Software | Generating Revenue | 0000000 000 00.0 |
00000 | 24-May-2021 | 0000 00000 | 0000 | Other Financial Services | Generating Revenue | 0000000 000 00.0 |
00000000000 | 29-Apr-2021 | 0000 00000 | 00.00 | Financial Software | Generating Revenue | 0000000 000 00.0 |
000000 | 16-Mar-2021 | 0000 00000 | 000 | Other Financial Services | Generating Revenue | 0000000 000 00.0 |
00000 000000000000 | 15-Feb-2021 | 00000 00000 | 000.00 | Educational Software | Generating Revenue | 0000000 000 00.0 |
000 0000000 | 18-Dec-2020 | 00000 00000 | 000 | Media and Information Services (B2B) | Generating Revenue | 0000000 000 00.0 |
0000 | 30-Nov-2020 | 0000 00000 | 00.000 | Educational Software | Generating Revenue | |
Arzooo | 16-Nov-2020 | Early Stage VC | 00.000 | Media and Information Services (B2B) | Generating Revenue | 0000000 000 00.0 |
Class Technologies | 23-Sep-2020 | Seed Round | 0000 | Educational Software | Generating Revenue |
William Tai Exits (23)
Company Name | Exit Date | Exit Type | Exit Size |
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Glyde | 01-Apr-2021 | Secondary Transaction - Private | |
0000000 | 01-Jan-2021 | 000000000000000000 | |
0000 | 16-Dec-2020 | 000 | 00.00 |
0000000000000 | 29-Apr-2020 | 000000000000000000 | |
000000 | 01-Oct-2019 | 0000000000: 000000 | |
000000 | 01-Sep-2019 | 000 00 00000000 | |
00000000 | 27-Jun-2019 | 000000000000000000 | 00000 |
0000 00000 0000000 | 18-Apr-2019 | 000 | 00000 |
Shoes of Prey | 12-Mar-2019 | Bankruptcy: Liquidation | |
About.me | 21-Feb-2019 | Merger/Acquisition |
William Tai Investments by Industry, Year, and Region
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Name | Title | Deals | Funds | Boards | Office |
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William Tai Ph.D | Angel Investor | 00 | 0 | 0 | San Francisco, CA |
William Tai Co-Investors (194)
Name | With | Exits | Lead Partner | Series | Industry |
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Sangha Capital | 4 | 0 |
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Maven Ventures | 0 | 0 |
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ACTAI Ventures | 0 | 0 |
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Graph Ventures | 0 | 0 |
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Insight Partners | 0 | 0 |
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