541 Ventures

541 Ventures is a Los Angeles-based VC that globally empowers extraordinary early-stage frontier-tech startups to start an industry, with at least one Asian (co-)founder. We do this because we don't just want to be a great investor, but we aspire to be an iconic investor for Asian founders who are deeply technical, and we invest in such deeply technical startups both in the US and in APAC ecosystems such as Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and Australia. 541 Ventures believes in investing courageously. At 541, this means we hold our nose up and get in it with the founders from their earliest days, and support them to grow exponentially to their success. For this, we're absolutely fearless to back the companies we love even when no one else does, and commit our resources to catalyze their growth. 541 Ventures defines frontier tech as a fundamental technology being developed for the future that has not yet arrived, therefore no one else but you are building. At 541, we put a very high value on the "fundamental" side of such technology so that the technology can be (and has to be) adopted and used by everyone when the future finally arrives.