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Bill Tai

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Bill is chairman of Maxthon, board member of Glyde and Scribd, and seed investor in Ark.com, ContextLogic, Schematic Labs, Sensr.net and StackMob, representing CRV as a partner in several funds. He is an angel investor in Tweetdeck, Tango, Voxer, Zoom.us and other fun startups out to change the world.

Bill has served on the board of seven publicly listed companies he funded as startups, including one he founded. He is experienced in the earliest stages as founding CEO of iAsiaWorks (NASD: IAWK), chairman of IPinfusion (Tokyo: 4817) and founder of Tradebeam (NASD: CDCS).

He holds a BSEE, with Honors, from University of Illinois and an a MBA from Harvard. Bill is an adjunct professor of innovation at Curtin University in Australia, an Olympic Ambassador for the IKA and co-creator of MaiTaiGlobal.org.

Legendary venture capitalist Bill Tai joined CRV in 2002.

• 8x8, Inc. - IPO 1997
• Avvenu - Acq. by Nokia 2007
• Award Software - IPO 1996
• Centrum, Inc. - acq. by 3Com 1994
• Creative Technology - IPO 1992
• iAsiaWorks Inc. - IPO 2000
• ICWorks, Inc. - Acq. by Cypress 1999
• ImGo - IPO 2001 via reverse merger
• IPinfusion Inc. - Acq. by Access 2006
• Microchip - IPO 1993
• Microtune - IPO 2000
• NCompass - Acq. by Microsoft 2001
• Network Peripherals - IPO 1994
• Premisys, Inc. - IPO 1995
• Rastergraphics - IPO 1996
• RLX Technologies - Acq. by HP 2005
• Silicon Clocks - Acq., Silicon Labs 2010
• SlimDevices - Acq. by Logitech 2006
• Terayon - IPO 1998
• Transmeta, Inc. - IPO 2000

Recent Milestones

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  Bill Tai invested in Canva. (3/19/13)
  Posted 5/20/13 at 3:53am via techcrunch.com
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  Bill Tai invested in Lulu. (2/5/13)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 8:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  Bill Tai invested in Treasure Data. (9/28/12)
  Posted 9/28/12 at 6:42pm via techcrunch.com
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  Bill Tai — Angel investor in www.zoom.us (8/23/12)
  Posted 8/17/12 at 12:35pm
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  Bill Tai invested in Shoes of Prey. (6/6/12)
  Posted 6/6/12 at 7:05pm via techcrunch.com
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  Bill Tai added a position as Investor at Ark. (4/18/12)
  Posted 4/26/12 at 12:51pm
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  Bill Tai — Angel and Board Member at Miselu inc. (1/1/12)
  Posted 8/12/12 at 7:59am via linkedin.com
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  Bill Tai invested in ContextLogic. (3/3/11)
  Posted 3/3/11 at 6:28pm via techcrunch.com
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  Bill Tai invested in Tango. (9/1/10)
  Posted 11/1/10 at 4:11pm
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  Bill Tai — First investor to commit to Tango Video (formerly known as Sgiggle) (8/30/10)
  Posted 7/2/11 at 7:39am via tango.me
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  Bill Tai invested in Schematic Labs. (8/1/10)
  Posted 3/11/11 at 10:16am via techcrunch.com
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  Bill Tai invested in TweetDeck. (1/1/09)
  Posted 1/16/09 at 1:27pm via techcrunch.com
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  Bill Tai added a position as Partner at Charles River Ventures.
  Posted 12/19/08 at 12:52am
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  Bill Tai added a position as Board of Directors at Scribd.
  Posted 12/19/08 at 12:51am

Investments

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TANGO HITS ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS IN 10 DAYS (tango.me) [edit]
Bill Tai's LinkedIn Profile (linkedin.com) [edit]
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1. Canva Raises $3 Million To Make Design Accessible To Everyone (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Lulu Raises Another $2.5M From Yuri Milner And Angels For Its Girls-Only App To Rate Guys (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Treasure Data Launches Cloud-Based Data Warehouse With Investment From Ruby Creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Shoes Of Prey Lands $3 Million Funding For Custom Footwear Design Site (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. ContextLogic Gets $1.7M From Conway, Rabois And Others To Better Target Ads, Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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7. techcrunch.com [edit]
8. Twitter Me This: TweetDeck Secures Angel Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]