Bill Tai

Bill Tai has been funding companies as a Venture Capitalist since 1991 and has had more than 20 companies he backed at the early stage grow to become listed companies.  He has served on 8 public company boards from his portfolio.

He is Founding Chairman of Treasure Data (acq by ARM / Softbank), Founding Chairman of IPInfusion (Tokyo:48130) and Chairman of Hut8Mining, one of North America’s largest publicly listed (NASDAQ: HUT) Bitcoin miningcompanies. He is a lead seed investor in Canva, Color Genomics, Dapper Labs (NBA Topshot), Safety Culture,  Wish and Zoom Video where he was 1st to commit as a backer. He was founding CEO of Internet Data Center company iAsiaWorks (IPO via Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley) and Founding CEO of Tradebeam (acquired by Avolin) a leader in SaaS based Global Trade Management.

After earning a BSEE with Honors from University of Illinois, he joined LSI Logic, a startup formed by the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor. After earning an MBA at Harvard Business School, he worked briefly at the inception of TSMC (Badge #A001) which has grown to become the 10 most valuable companies in the world today, then established the semiconductor practice for Alex.Brown & Sons, driving IPOs of Atmel, Adaptec, Cirrus Logic, Dallas Semi, Exar, and Zilog before becoming a venture capitalist. He was granted a PhD from Curtin University where he is an Adjunct Professor focused on “Innovation and Economic Development” and Chairman of ACTAI Global – a 501(c)3 uniting Athletes, Conservationists, Technologists, Artists & Innovators supporting ‘active conservation’ of our environment as partners to Ocean Elders , Mission Blue, and Sea Shepard and economic empowerment via entrepreneurship through projects such as the Extreme Tech Challenge.

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