Bill Tai, Angel Investor

Bill Tai has been funding startups as a Venture Capitalist since 1991 and has had 23 of his startups become listed companies. Personal Angel backer of 3 of the top 10 on "CNBC's 50 Top Disruptor List for 2022" (#3 Lineage Logistics, #4 Canva, #9 Dapper Labs). Companies he has been involved with at their start surpassed $1 trillion in aggregate market value in 2021. Originally trained as a chip designer, he joined LSI Logic, a seminal Silicon Valley startup formed by the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor after earning a BSEE with Honors from the University of Illinois. After an MBA at Harvard, he was issued Badge #A001 during the formation of TSMC (NYSE:TSM), now among the world’s 10 most valuable companies (~$1 trillion USD market value as of 2024). He co-founded Treasure Data (acquired by ARM/Softbank) as Chairman and is among the first investors in Bitfury, Canva, Class.com, Color Health, Dapper Labs (originator of Cryptokitties and NBA Topshot), Dyad.net, Gigaverse, Metagood, Powerledger, Safety Culture, Tweetdeck/Twitter, Wish.com, and Zoom Video, where he was the first backer to commit at the company's formation. He is Founding Board Chairman of Hut8 Mining (NASDAQ: HUT), an energy infrastructure company with subsidiaries HighriseAI operating Nvidia-based GPU Data Centers and American Bitcoin operating Bitcoin mining data centers.