Alfred Chu

INED | VC Investor | AI Governance & ESG | AI Infrastructure & Sustainable Energy Storage

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 25 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
18
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6
Early stage
5
Mid stage
2
Late stage
25y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
2022
Versus taps the power of proprietary AI to gamify content, making fandom fun & rewarding and increasing engagement, retention and revenue for our partners across entertainment, news, sports, social and search.
Investor
2021
Founded in 2016 by Silicon Valley veteran John Tompane, Ely Tsern and Jonathan Farringdon, Bryte is the leading restorative sleep technology platform powered by AI and maker of the Bryte Balance smart mattress. Bryte’s turn-key hardware, software and services platform is available to select mattress manufacturing partners for licensing. Bryte Balance™ is available to consumers through Bryte.com and select hotel and resort partners. Brytes complete hospitality offering is available to luxury hotels and wellness resorts in the USA. For more information, visit Bryte.com.
Investor
2021
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
Advisor, Angel Investor
2017
Terbine offers TerbineLink, the first distributed system for the seamless exchanging of IoT data between the mobility and energy sectors.
Investor
2015
QAX is a listed company based in China, and a leader in cybersecurity industry, providing new generation enterprise-level and national-level cybersecurity solutions. Years of R&D and innovation accumulated from cyber offense and defense practice, QAX has reinforced the strength in big data, AI, and security operation. In 2019, QAX also became the official cybersecurity services and anti-virus software sponsor of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. During years of development, company business has enjoyed high recognition at home and aboard. To dedicate in development of “New Infrastructure Construction” and digitalization, QAX has employed the methodology of system engineering together with the idea of “Built-in security”, in the age of IOE, to build a collective cybersecurity defense system on top of “new generation cybersecurity framework”; to accomplish that, company is using “data-driven security” as technology concept, and “co-operating of ‘human + machine’” as method. QAX possesses a series of comprehensive and innovative products and services, covering the full supply chain from R&D, procurement, production, distribution as well as training and aftersales support. Company served customers from government and enterprise with robust and effective solutions in the emergency of new ecological environment, which is driven by cloud computing, Big Data, IOT, mobile internet, Industry of Internet and 5G etc.
Investor
2015
Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripple’s enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue. Founded in 2012, Ripples vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripple’s global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and 
six continents.
Investor
2015
Founded in 2014, Qi An Xin Technology Group Co., Ltd. is one of the largest cyber security companies in China. With a workforce of 8,000+ employees, our products and service have been adopted by over 90% of China’s central government departments, central government-led enterprises, and large banks. In December 2019, Qi An XinGroup has become the Official Cyber Security Services and Anti-Virus Software Sponsor of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. We extend our global business in Indonesia, Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong, Macao, etc. For business inquiries, please email: GlobalPartner@qianxin.com
Investor, Board Observer
2012
At GenapSys we are working to power the world of healthcare and diagnostics with advanced DNA sequencing technology. Our sequencing instrument platform leverages a proprietary electrical microfluidic sequencing chip with a scalable number of detectors, enabling a wide range of applications including targeted sequencing in oncology, pharmacogenomics and genome-wide sequencing in microbiology and others. We believe in a world where every researcher has a compact, scalable, and affordable sequencer in their own lab, empowering the democratization of genetic sequencing. Our novel sequencing method is revolutionizing genomics discovery, biomedical research, healthcare, diagnostics, agriculture, and a variety of other fields. Our team brings together an incredibly diverse and multidisciplinary set of backgrounds and skills – from electrical and mechanical engineers, physicists, chemists, microfluidic engineers, molecular biologists, bioinformaticians, mathematicians and more. It is a super exciting time to join GenapSys as we recently launched our first product which is generating a tremendous amount of interest.
early stageBiotechnology
Investor, Board Observer
2012
Amprius Technologies (NYSE: AMPX) is at the forefront of transforming electric mobility with its revolutionary Silicon Anode lithium-ion battery. The company is powering a new era, offering a drop-in replacement for conventional lithium-ion batteries while delivering up to 80% higher energy density. Leveraging its patented silicon anode platform, the company’s commercially proven batteries deliver unmatched performance – ultra-high energy density, high power density, extreme fast charge rate capability, wide operating temperature, and long cycle life.
Advisor, Angel Investor & Board Observer
2009
Octillion is a Tier 1 supplier of advanced energy storage systems focused on the electrification of passenger cars, trucks, and buses. We have delivered more than 300,000 electric vehicle batteries to the global market with more than 2 billion kilometers driven on our systems. As a turnkey battery supplier, we provide our customers with a bridge from design to manufacturing. Our products undergo a robust design process, including extensive thermal modeling, fully integrated BMS, and standardized production processes that offer a customized solution for your needs.
Investor, Board Observer
2006
Investor, Board Observer
2005
Gracenote, a Nielsen company, is the world leader in entertainment data and services. Whether you know it or not, Gracenote plays a big role in your digital lifestyle, powering the most popular music, movie and TV, and sports services on the planet. At its core, Gracenote helps connect people with the digital entertainment they love. We do this by offering the largest database for music, sports, movies and TV shows, and creating best in class services and technologies, all on a highly scalable platform. Gracenote was acquired by Nielsen in 2017 and now has 1,800 employees working in more than 25 locations around the world including Los Angeles, Queensbury, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Munich, Mumbai, Sydney, Seoul and Tokyo. Our worldwide headquarters are in Emeryville, Calif. For more information, visit www.gracenote.com.
Investor, Board Observer
2002
Ikanos develops robust, high performance semiconductor and software products that enable network equipment manufacturers and service providers to deliver broadband to the digital home. We’re the world’s top supplier in the VDSL market with more than 80% market share, and a leader in ADSL, with more than 330 million ports shipped to date. We also develop and manufacture advanced network processors and other products that enable the cost-effective delivery of triple- and quadruple-play services. Headquartered in Fremont, Calif., we have offices around the world to service our global customer base. Our engineers are responsible for inventions captured in approximately 400 issued patents and applications. And we lead public standards development by actively participating and contributing to standards bodies such as HomeGrid™, ATIS, Broadband Forum, FSAN, IEEE 802.3, ITU-T, NIPP-NAI, and TTC (Japan).
Investor, Board Observer
2002
MontaVista Software is the leader in embedded Linux commercialization. We help you get the most of open source by providing commercial quality Linux and developer tools that significantly reduce the time and effort required to deliver commercial products to market. Combine that with our expert support, hardware enablement, and the resources of the MontaVista community and you can see why there are over 50 million devices in the market today running on MontaVista Linux. MontaVista Software provides market-leading Linux solutions such as Carrier Grade eXpress, MVShield for embedded the enterprise Linux applications with long-term support requirements.
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2022
Advisor
2022
We’re a new breed of philanthropic VC. Built from the ground up to return capital to Berkeley.
Investor
2022
Versus taps the power of proprietary AI to gamify content, making fandom fun & rewarding and increasing engagement, retention and revenue for our partners across entertainment, news, sports, social and search.
2021
Investor
2021
Founded in 2016 by Silicon Valley veteran John Tompane, Ely Tsern and Jonathan Farringdon, Bryte is the leading restorative sleep technology platform powered by AI and maker of the Bryte Balance smart mattress. Bryte’s turn-key hardware, software and services platform is available to select mattress manufacturing partners for licensing. Bryte Balance™ is available to consumers through Bryte.com and select hotel and resort partners. Brytes complete hospitality offering is available to luxury hotels and wellness resorts in the USA. For more information, visit Bryte.com.
Investor
2021
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. --- Databricks applicants Please apply through our official Careers page at databricks.com/company/careers. All official communication from Databricks will come from email addresses ending with @databricks.com or @goodtime.io (our meeting tool).
Limited Partner
2021
Race Capital invests, builds, and partners with exceptional founders building our future: https://www.race.capital/how-we-invest
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