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Xuhui Shao

Managing Partner, Foothill Ventures

About

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. 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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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Sectors
AI
Deeptech
Hardware
Health
Energy
Robotics

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $10M
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA