Xuhui Shao brings a rare engineer-to-CTO-to-VC background with a PhD in Computer Science and senior roles like VP at Yahoo and CTO at Turn, allowing him to evaluate startups from the perspective of someone who has actually built and scaled complex technical systems. He's an early investor in companies like WeRide, Otter.ai, and d-Matrix, and is known for his transparent investment writing on Medium where he explains his technical decision-making process and what he looks for in deep tech teams.
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AI, Deeptech / Hardware, Health, Energy, Robotics
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Pre-Seed - Series A
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$100K - $10M
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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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