TSVC invests in Physical AI, Deep Tech, Immigrant Founders, and what they call 'One Bold Future'—companies at the intersection of hardware, artificial intelligence, and physical systems that can scale to massive impact.

Check Size

Not specified

Stages

Seed, Pre Seed

Focus Areas

Ai Ml, Deep Tech, Healthtech

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Investment Thesis

TSVC is a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on backing immigrant founders and deep technology companies with transformative potential. The firm believes in identifying forward-thinking entrepreneurs solving massive problems through innovation, with a particular emphasis on companies that have been ‘there’ before—founders with relevant domain expertise and immigrant backgrounds who bring unique perspectives to technology challenges.

What Sets Them Apart

  • First seed fund in Silicon Valley established by immigrants from mainland China
  • First institutional investor in Zoom—demonstrating early pattern recognition ability
  • Exceptional unicorn hit rate from seed investments (11 unicorns and 5 IPOs from 220+ portfolio companies)
  • Team of seasoned entrepreneurs and executives with deep operational experience, not just investment experience
  • International background enabling portfolio companies to expand overseas
  • Focus on 'defensible' seed startups with category-defining ideas
  • Deep technical expertise across AI, hardware, biotech, and semiconductors

Portfolio Highlights

Zoom

Communications

Carta

Fintech

Iterable

Saas

Ginkgo Bioworks

Deeptech Biotech

d-Matrix

Ai Ml Semiconductors

Zum

Mobility Transportation

Plus

Autonomous Vehicles

Jasper

Ai Ml

+ 77 more companies in their portfolio

Investment Team

19 Partners at TSVC

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