Michael (Xuecheng) Jin

Managing Partner, Foothill Ventures
Michael Jin combines biomedical and electrical engineering with semiconductor entrepreneurship—co‑founder of Simple Silicon and former iWatt engineering lead through a $345M acquisition—building Tsinghua-linked bridges for U.S.–China biomedicine and semiconductor startups.
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About Michael (Xuecheng) Jin

Michael Jin is a venture capital investor at Foothill Ventures who combines deep cross-disciplinary training in biomedical and electrical engineering with serial semiconductor entrepreneurship experience, including co-founding Simple Silicon and leading engineering at iWatt through its $345M acquisition by Dialog Semiconductor. He founded TEEC Angel Fund's North America efforts in 2010 and serves as BioMed Group Lead, creating an institutionalized bridge between Tsinghua-linked networks that backs biomedicine and semiconductor startups across the U.S. and China.

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Foothill Ventures

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Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused fund that explicitly backs immigrant and cross-border founders across software, life sciences, and deep tech, with partners combining ex-Google and Palantir product leadership with deep scientific backgrounds to underwrite technically complex companies at the intersection of disciplines. The fund has built a track record with breakout companies like WeRide, MemVerge, and Metalenz while maintaining an unusually content-heavy blog and structured guidance approach that portfolio founders praise as "the most transparent VC group I know."

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