How to Set Startup Valuation in the New Cycle

The valuations that startups requested, and often got, in 2021, were an anomaly, and those numbers very quickly have become outdated and useless references. What valuation should you reference today, if you are a committed seed investor who believes in long term value creation by disruptive technologies, or a founder set on starting a company?

Building the Next Unicorn Against the Headwind, Are You Ready?

TSVC held another successful seminar of “Building the Next Unicorn” series on March 24, 2022. Our TSVC founding partners Mr. Eugene Zhang and Dr. Chun Xia shared their in-depth analysis of the current tail-end bull market conditions, their investment knowledge and experiences going through three boom, and bust cycles in Silicon Valley, as well as how TSVC achieved highest seed-to-unicorn hit rate in the past 11 years.

From 2013 to IPO, behind TSVC’s investment to Quanergy System

Since 2013, Quanergy System has become the solution for smart 3D-automotive applications. Being the pioneer of solid-state LiDAR sensors, Quanergy System announced its IPO on New York Stock Exchange on February 9th, 2022.

We Have Seen the Peak, What Do We Do Next?

We are at the intersection of two eras: a bull market cycle, extended to 12 years by the Federal Reserve, now yielding to market forces. These forces will bring renewed health to the entrepreneurial ecosystem going forward, but there will be pain for some along the way. This year won’t be like 2021; everyone in the market will have to react. TSVC has recommendations for how to deal with the new reality.

Aviva- Accelerating Automotive Connectivity

Aviva Links is a startup created by industry experts using deep domain expertise in multi-gigabit technologies, they are developing innovative connection solutions for next-generation autonomous systems.

Meet The First and Only Institutional Zoom Seed Check NFT

TSVC has officially tokenized our first and the only institutional check for Zoom

Why We Invested in ESTAT- A clutch that changes the game of mechanical motion

ESTAT’s novel technology for robotic clutches and actuators is dramatically lighter and lower power consumption than existing alternatives. It promises to transform existing robots and enable entirely new classes of mobile robotic applications.

H2U - When AI and Robotics meet Hydrogen

To overcome the supply constraint in green hydrogen production and applications, H2U provides a technology to discover new catalysts at a much lower price. H2U uses AI and data mining to search for high-performing catalysts to replace existing ones like Iridium and platinum. Once it has a list of potential candidates, it synthesizes these samples through H2U’s high throughput system.

Automat Solutions - how to find the “golden eggs” of EV batteries through AI and Robotics

It takes 7-14 years of R&D and 3-6 years of validation to discover new materials manually. The self-driving platform will reduce the discovery time from 10-20 years to 1-2 years. Automat Solutions provides the technology that enables companies to find new materials and generate recipes for batteries in a much shorter time.

Look Over Here, it's the future of AR

Augmented reality (AR) technologies enable the projection of virtual content into the visual field of a viewer. Here how member from TSVC is seeing the future of AR and its hardware infrastructure.

Keeping a growth mindset, staying optimistic, founding advice from Michael Shieh

How AI will reshape our day-to-day search experience

Metaphor.so, a 2021 TSVC investment, is "building the world’s most advanced search engine with language models.” Metaphor uses NLP and AI technologies to redefine search, initially in vertical segments. Metaphor's technology uses context to get closer to searchers' actual intent,

Revery.ai - Virtual Dressing Room and Its Metaverse Potential

Revery.ai recently joined TSVC’s portfolio, enriching the firm’s vision in deep-tech and computer vision. Revery.ai was founded in October 2020, by three talented computer science PhD students from UIUC. 

How to spot a unicorn: Don’t grow it — synthesize it!

Our investment in Ginkgo Biowroks - the largest bio-tech IPO in the history

NFT and Its Investment Opportunities

Despite the market crash, there are several emerging sectors that NFTs can prove to be very useful for. NFTs are an important aspect of decentralized finance; they can tokenize assets that are otherwise difficult to liquidate and trade; lastly, they appeal to the human desire for the need to be a part of a community and own valuables. 

PSA: Why there needs to be an institutional shift towards female founders

Systemic change needed for founder diversity

How an emerging VC can survive and thrive among the industry’s behemoths

Competition in today’s VC industry is hot and will only get fiercer. How can emerging VC survive?

“A few yes’s in a sea of no’s” - Founding advice from Bertrand Irissou

Givelist: A New Type of Giving Vehicle

A new family member in our Alpha Program and how it will disrupt the givings behaviors of Philanthroteens.

What Hype Trends in History Can Say About the AI Hype Today

How we see the hyped AI space differently?