Joshua Sum - CPO @ Solayer - Crunchbase Person Profile

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Overview

Number of Portfolio Companies

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Primary Job Title CPO
Primary Organization
Solayer

Location San Francisco, California, United States
Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

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Website joshuasum.com
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Personal Investments

Number of Investments

has made

investments. Their latest investment was

Seed Round - HydraDB

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	HydraDB	—	Seed Round - HydraDB	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Colare	—	Pre Seed Round - Colare	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Hyperspell	—	Seed Round - Hyperspell	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Nad.fun	—	Seed Round - Nad.fun	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	SylphAI	—	Pre Seed Round - SylphAI	obfuscated obfuscation

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs

Number of Past Jobs

has

current jobs including

Co-founder

at

,

CPO

at

, and

Co-Founder

at

. Additionally,

has had

past jobs including

Co-founder, CEO

at

.

AI+ Co-founder2025
Solayer CPOJun 2024
College DAO Co-FounderSep 2022

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
BeatNami	Co-founder, CEO	Apr 2022	May 2023
Treehouse	Product Manager	Jun 2021	Dec 2022
Treehouse Labs	Founding Quant/Product Manager	Jun 2021	Dec 2022
GrowthFunnels	Founder and Managing Partner	Jun 2020	Dec 2022
Zendesk	Product Management Intern	Jun 2022	Aug 2022

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Salt Lake Community College Alumni Founded Companies	93,003
University of Canterbury Alumni Founded Companies	73,316
Fashion Institute of Technology Alumni Founded Companies	69,330

Education

studied at

Raffles Institution

and

University of Michigan

.

Raffles Institution Raffles DiplomaHigh SchoolJan 1, 2016Dec 31, 2017
University of Michigan BSEComputer ScienceAug 30, 2020Dec 31, 2023

Events

Number of Events

has participated in

event,

AI+ Renaissance Conference

on

Mar 15, 2026

.

AI+ Renaissance Conference OrganizerMar 15, 2026

Recent News and Activity

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News•

Mar 20, 2026

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Funding Round•

Mar 12, 2026

HydraDB raised

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from Ashish Kakran and 5 other investors

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Mar 9, 2026

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Jan 29, 2026

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Funding Round•

Jan 5, 2026

Colare raised

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from Acadian Ventures and 4 other investors

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Dec 19, 2025

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Funding Round•

Dec 17, 2025

Hyperspell raised

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from Afore Capital and 9 other investors

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Funding Round•

Nov 11, 2025

Nad.fun raised

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from Joshua Sum and Neoclassic Capital

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Jul 17, 2025

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Funding Round•

Mar 2, 2025

SylphAI raised

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from Joshua Sum and 2 other investors

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