AME Cloud Ventures

AME Cloud Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in investments in seed to later-stage companies that are heavily focused on technology and are involved in building infrastructure and value chains around data. AME Cloud Ventures targets sectors such as artificial intelligence, robotics, aerospace, genomics, new-generation medical devices, big data, computing, mobility, sensors, and cloud ecosystems. Under the leadership of Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, the firm aims to discover and support innovative entrepreneurs, offering a blend of operational expertise and access to a robust network of mentors and international partners, particularly in China.

Wretch Chien

Principal

Jeff Chung

Managing Director

Chih-Yuan Yang

Founding Partner

Past deals in Big Data

AnthologyAI

Series A in 2023
AnthologyAI is the breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Consumer Insights & Predictions Platform with billions of real-time data sourced directly and ethically from consumers. Access previously unavailable levels of intelligence about retail spending, geolocation, media consumption, travel, ride sharing and more — in realtime, at scale.

Coactive AI

Seed Round in 2023
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform focused on transforming unstructured image and video data into actionable insights. By providing an application programming interface, the company empowers data practitioners and teams to effectively utilize visual data alongside conventional big data tools. Coactive AI employs advanced techniques in data-centric artificial intelligence to enhance the usability of visual data, allowing analysts to derive meaningful insights quickly and efficiently. The platform aims to simplify the challenges associated with managing unstructured data, making it accessible and valuable for data-driven decision-making.

AnthologyAI

Seed Round in 2022
AnthologyAI is the breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Consumer Insights & Predictions Platform with billions of real-time data sourced directly and ethically from consumers. Access previously unavailable levels of intelligence about retail spending, geolocation, media consumption, travel, ride sharing and more — in realtime, at scale.

Single Origin

Seed Round in 2022
Single Origin is a developer of a cloud platform designed to enhance metrics and machine learning features as a service. The company addresses the challenges faced by data-driven organizations, such as the complexity of infrastructure and rising computing costs, by providing a unique query optimization platform. This platform operates between data warehouses and various data tools, automatically analyzing queries to identify inefficiencies and optimize them, resulting in queries that are significantly simpler, faster, and more cost-effective. Single Origin's solution also standardizes data definitions across multi-cloud environments and manages semantic data to identify duplicate data pipelines, facilitating collaboration among cross-functional teams. The founders have extensive experience in data infrastructure, having previously built and scaled tools for major companies like Uber, Snap, Reddit, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Metrist

Seed Round in 2021
Metrist is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that focuses on monitoring the performance and availability of cloud applications and APIs. Its platform provides real-time visibility and actionable data, allowing businesses to understand the impact of external services on their operations. Metrist's software includes features such as service level agreement (SLA) reporting and embedded analytics, which support businesses in optimizing customer experiences. By delivering critical insights into application functionality, Metrist enables developers and users to make informed decisions without uncertainty regarding external service performance.

Global Predictions

Seed Round in 2021
Global Predictions is a financial technology company founded by a team with extensive experience at Bridgewater, leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver investment insights and financial advice. The company has developed a proprietary Economic Insights Engine that powers its fintech solutions, making them accessible to millions through their API and tailored insights. Their flagship product, PortfolioPilot.com, serves as a personal AI financial advisor for individuals, managing over $30 billion in assets. The platform is designed to offer personalized recommendations and guidance for investment portfolio management, helping users navigate economic shifts effectively.

Molecule.one

Seed Round in 2021
Molecule One is a biotechnology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven software for chemical synthesis. Its m1 platform enhances the preclinical pipeline by providing tools that assist bench chemists, data scientists, and computational chemists in their work. The software is designed to predict the likelihood of synthesizing novel small molecules, streamlining the synthesis design process by automating significant portions of manual tasks. By leveraging vast amounts of data that exceed human processing capabilities, Molecule One enables clients to concentrate on drug candidates with lower synthesis costs and a higher probability of success.

AnthologyAI

Seed Round in 2021
AnthologyAI is the breakthrough Artificial Intelligence Consumer Insights & Predictions Platform with billions of real-time data sourced directly and ethically from consumers. Access previously unavailable levels of intelligence about retail spending, geolocation, media consumption, travel, ride sharing and more — in realtime, at scale.

DataFleets

Seed Round in 2020
DataFleets Ltd. is a data analytics software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2018. It specializes in developing a privacy-preserving data engine that unifies distributed data for efficient access and agile analytics. The platform enables data scientists and developers to create analytics, machine learning models, and applications on sensitive data sets without direct access to the data itself. This is achieved through a "data fleet," which incorporates advanced techniques such as federated computation, transfer learning, encryption, and differential privacy to ensure data protection. DataFleets aims to help organizations navigate the balance between data privacy and innovation, allowing them to comply with data protection standards while advancing their data science initiatives. The company also offers a web-based notebook editor for hypothesis testing, further enhancing its analytics capabilities.

Nautilus Biotechnology

Series B in 2020
Born from the founders’ recognition that their diverse but complementary skills and experiences would enable them to successfully address challenges that others had not, the company set about solving a vexing problem: how to bring true proteomics to the world in a way that accelerates therapeutic development, dramatically improves medical diagnostics, and makes personalized and predictive medicine a reality. The extraordinary team at Nautilus represents a wide spectrum of disciplines and expertise, including protein chemists, chip designers, molecular biologists, data scientists, material scientists, biophysicists, optical engineers, microfluidics engineers, bioinformaticists, software engineers, and more. Nautilus is positioned to revolutionize proteomics, transform the way drugs are developed, and significantly improve the way human health is managed.

MayaData

Venture Round in 2020
MayaData, Inc. specializes in developing virtualized file and block storage software solutions aimed at enhancing data management and performance for private cloud environments. The company offers ElastiStor 2.0, a ZFS-based storage solution tailored for cloud and virtualized applications, as well as OpenEBS.io, an open-source project that provides containerized storage specifically designed for Kubernetes. MayaData's MDAP commercial offering supports the adoption of stateful workloads in agile Kubernetes settings, integrating tools like the Litmus chaos engineering project and MayaOnline for visualization and control. Additionally, the company produces a range of appliances, such as ElastiStor FX-2 and FX-4, which facilitate seamless cloud integration across various virtualization environments. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Jose, California, MayaData also maintains offices in Reading, UK, and Bengaluru, India.

Flieber

Seed Round in 2019
Flieber is a supply-chain technology startup headquartered in New York, founded in 2019. The company addresses the significant issue of stockouts and overstock in global retail, which results in annual losses exceeding $1.8 trillion. Flieber offers a multichannel inventory planning platform that enhances data visibility and improves inventory decision-making for modern commerce brands. Utilizing advanced data analytics and machine learning, Flieber's system integrates real-time sales forecasts, inventory availability, and delivery decisions, thereby helping online retailers minimize stock-outs. The startup has successfully raised $20 million in funding from notable investors, including GGV, Monashees, Cherubic, and AME, among others.

Lacework

Series C in 2019
Lacework, Inc. is a cloud security company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2015. The company provides a comprehensive security platform that automates threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its flagship solution, Polygraph, secures customer accounts, workloads, and data by integrating with cloud providers' security measures. Lacework's platform continuously monitors all cloud components, including workloads, applications, processes, containers, and user accounts, offering features such as configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly detection, and incident investigation. This enables security teams to effectively protect data and maintain compliance while allowing businesses to innovate rapidly and safely in the cloud.

Aibee

Series A in 2018
Aibee is an artificial intelligence startup founded in November 2017 by Dr. Yuanqing Lin, specializing in developing advanced technologies such as speech recognition, natural language processing, computer vision, and big data analytics. As a leading AI provider in China, Aibee focuses on delivering comprehensive AI solutions tailored to enhance and transform various vertical industries, particularly in the retail sector. The company's platform integrates multiple AI technologies to address industry-specific challenges, improve operational efficiency, and create new business opportunities for clients. By understanding the unique needs of its customers, Aibee aims to empower traditional industries with innovative tools and insights, thereby upgrading their capabilities and driving business value.

Lacework

Series B in 2018
Lacework, Inc. is a cloud security company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2015. The company provides a comprehensive security platform that automates threat defense and intrusion detection for cloud workloads. Its flagship solution, Polygraph, secures customer accounts, workloads, and data by integrating with cloud providers' security measures. Lacework's platform continuously monitors all cloud components, including workloads, applications, processes, containers, and user accounts, offering features such as configuration assessment, behavior monitoring, anomaly detection, and incident investigation. This enables security teams to effectively protect data and maintain compliance while allowing businesses to innovate rapidly and safely in the cloud.

Dor

Series A in 2018
Dor Technologies, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in foot traffic counting solutions for retailers. The company offers a wireless, thermal-sensing sensor and an analytics platform designed to measure store performance and track customer traffic. This technology provides real-time insights through a web and mobile application, allowing retailers to make informed decisions regarding staffing and marketing strategies. By democratizing access to big data, Dor enables businesses to enhance revenue, improve operational efficiency, and optimize their marketing return on investment.

Citrine Informatics

Series A in 2017
Citrine Informatics, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance materials development. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an additional office in Pittsburgh, the company operates a platform that aggregates and analyzes extensive datasets related to materials, chemicals, and devices. This platform aims to streamline research and development, manufacturing, and supply chain processes for organizations involved in producing physical products. By employing data science and machine learning, Citrine Informatics accelerates the discovery of new materials and helps identify defects early in the research process, thereby improving product design and development efficiency across various sectors, including energy, aerospace, and electronics.

Treasure Data

Series C in 2016
Treasure Data, Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based data analytics and management services. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan, Treasure Data provides a platform that allows businesses to collect, store, and analyze data from diverse sources, including web, application, mobile, and sensor data. The platform is designed to enhance data accessibility and understanding, enabling organizations to break down data silos and gain insights into customer behavior across various channels. Additionally, the company offers the Enterprise Fluentd Manager, which enhances its data analytics capabilities with features such as data pipeline monitoring and anomaly detection. Treasure Data serves clients across multiple industries, including digital gaming, advertising technology, media, mobile, retail, and telecommunications, in regions such as Asia, North America, and Europe. As of August 2018, it operates as a subsidiary of ARM Holdings plc.

OpsClarity

Series A in 2015
OpsClarity is a performance monitoring solution for modern applications and data infrastructure that helps DevOps and engineering teams to continuously visualize, understand and troubleshoot their complex and distributed business-critical applications and infrastructure. Built by alumni from Yahoo, eBay, Facebook, Twitter and Google, OpsClarity is the only solution that can dynamically adapt to and learn every component of a company’s modern fast data application and infrastructure and extract key insights needed to maximize performance and agility..

DataTorrent

Series B in 2015
DataTorrent Inc. is a real-time Big Data analytics company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2012. The company offers a stream processing platform that enables businesses to ingest, transform, and analyze data in real-time, facilitating informed decision-making. Its flagship product, DataTorrent RTS, allows users to build and deploy production applications efficiently, catering to a variety of industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, and energy. Additionally, DataTorrent provides a suite of applications such as the Omni-channel Payment Fraud Prevention Application, which helps clients combat fraud through advanced data pipelines and visualization tools. The company also features DataTorrent AppFactory, a marketplace for streaming analytics use cases and solutions. Overall, DataTorrent's offerings encompass data ingestion, transformation, risk management, and real-time customer intelligence, supported by services such as design, development, deployment, and ongoing optimization.

Treasure Data

Series B in 2015
Treasure Data, Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based data analytics and management services. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan, Treasure Data provides a platform that allows businesses to collect, store, and analyze data from diverse sources, including web, application, mobile, and sensor data. The platform is designed to enhance data accessibility and understanding, enabling organizations to break down data silos and gain insights into customer behavior across various channels. Additionally, the company offers the Enterprise Fluentd Manager, which enhances its data analytics capabilities with features such as data pipeline monitoring and anomaly detection. Treasure Data serves clients across multiple industries, including digital gaming, advertising technology, media, mobile, retail, and telecommunications, in regions such as Asia, North America, and Europe. As of August 2018, it operates as a subsidiary of ARM Holdings plc.

Altiscale

Series B in 2014
Altiscale, Inc. is a cloud service provider specializing in Apache Hadoop operations, offering a platform designed specifically for Big Data applications. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company aims to make complex Hadoop projects more accessible to organizations by providing both the infrastructure and operational expertise needed for successful implementation. With a focus on monitoring infrastructure and job performance, Altiscale ensures high levels of service for its clients. The company's team has extensive experience with Apache Hadoop, having operated over 40,000 nodes and contributed to the technology's development from its early days at Yahoo. Altiscale operates as a subsidiary of SAP SE, reflecting its commitment to delivering reliable and scalable cloud solutions for Big Data.

Citrine Informatics

Seed Round in 2014
Citrine Informatics, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance materials development. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an additional office in Pittsburgh, the company operates a platform that aggregates and analyzes extensive datasets related to materials, chemicals, and devices. This platform aims to streamline research and development, manufacturing, and supply chain processes for organizations involved in producing physical products. By employing data science and machine learning, Citrine Informatics accelerates the discovery of new materials and helps identify defects early in the research process, thereby improving product design and development efficiency across various sectors, including energy, aerospace, and electronics.

Quantifind

Venture Round in 2014
Quantifind, Inc. is a data science company that specializes in creating on-demand insights platforms aimed at enhancing marketing effectiveness and detecting financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud. Founded in 2008 by two Ph.D. graduates in atomic physics, the company offers several key products, including signum Analysis, which helps users assess performance drivers for brands and competitors; signum Voice, which focuses on revenue drivers; and signum Impact, which measures the effects of sponsorships on brand awareness and sales. Additionally, Quantifind's platform integrates internal financial institution data with public domain data to identify risks, thereby assisting financial crime analysts in minimizing false positive alerts and managing risk. The company serves various sectors, including automotive, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, financial services, pharmaceuticals, retail, and telecommunications, and has established a strategic partnership with Oracle Financial Services. Quantifind is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, D.C.

ContextLogic

Series C in 2014
ContextLogic Inc., formerly known for its Wish ecommerce platform, is a technology-driven company specializing in the online retail sector. The company previously offered a global marketplace connecting consumers with merchants through a mobile shopping experience. Following a recent transaction, ContextLogic has sold its operating assets to Qoo10 and now focuses on leveraging its substantial net operating losses (NOLs) for future financial opportunities. ContextLogic continues to explore ways to maximize the value of these tax attributes while managing reduced operational expenses.

Pepperdata

Series A in 2014
Pepperdata, Inc. is a software company based in Sunnyvale, California, specializing in big data performance optimization. Founded in 2012, it offers a comprehensive software solution designed to enhance the efficiency of existing clusters running multiple applications. The platform provides real-time tracking of CPU, memory, network, local disk, and HDFS usage across users, jobs, tasks, and processes. This capability enables organizations to maximize resource utilization and run more jobs on their current infrastructure. Additionally, Pepperdata features Query Spotlight, a big data analytics performance suite that allows clients to analyze cluster resource usage and identify limitations. The company's technology is particularly effective for Internet and software-as-a-service companies managing large-scale Hadoop clusters and is recognized for its dynamic cost optimization capabilities on cloud services like Amazon EMR and EKS. Pepperdata's solutions are utilized by top enterprises, including Citibank and T-Mobile, to enhance data management and operational efficiency in complex environments.

ContextLogic

Series B in 2013
ContextLogic Inc., formerly known for its Wish ecommerce platform, is a technology-driven company specializing in the online retail sector. The company previously offered a global marketplace connecting consumers with merchants through a mobile shopping experience. Following a recent transaction, ContextLogic has sold its operating assets to Qoo10 and now focuses on leveraging its substantial net operating losses (NOLs) for future financial opportunities. ContextLogic continues to explore ways to maximize the value of these tax attributes while managing reduced operational expenses.

Bina Technologies

Series B in 2013
Bina Technologies focuses on advancing personalized, data-driven healthcare through its innovative platform designed for scalable genomic analytics. The company develops high-performance data analysis solutions that streamline the management and processing of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. Targeting academic and translational research markets, Bina Technologies enables researchers and clinicians to efficiently extract insights from complex genomic datasets, effectively reducing the time, cost, and complexity associated with data analysis in the field of medicine.

Treasure Data

Series A in 2013
Treasure Data, Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based data analytics and management services. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan, Treasure Data provides a platform that allows businesses to collect, store, and analyze data from diverse sources, including web, application, mobile, and sensor data. The platform is designed to enhance data accessibility and understanding, enabling organizations to break down data silos and gain insights into customer behavior across various channels. Additionally, the company offers the Enterprise Fluentd Manager, which enhances its data analytics capabilities with features such as data pipeline monitoring and anomaly detection. Treasure Data serves clients across multiple industries, including digital gaming, advertising technology, media, mobile, retail, and telecommunications, in regions such as Asia, North America, and Europe. As of August 2018, it operates as a subsidiary of ARM Holdings plc.

Altiscale

Series A in 2013
Altiscale, Inc. is a cloud service provider specializing in Apache Hadoop operations, offering a platform designed specifically for Big Data applications. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, the company aims to make complex Hadoop projects more accessible to organizations by providing both the infrastructure and operational expertise needed for successful implementation. With a focus on monitoring infrastructure and job performance, Altiscale ensures high levels of service for its clients. The company's team has extensive experience with Apache Hadoop, having operated over 40,000 nodes and contributed to the technology's development from its early days at Yahoo. Altiscale operates as a subsidiary of SAP SE, reflecting its commitment to delivering reliable and scalable cloud solutions for Big Data.

Edge Intelligence Software

Seed Round in 2013
Edge Intelligence has developed the industry’s first distributed analytics platform built for both edge computing and hybrid cloud environments. It provides enterprises, communication service providers and government entities with the fastest, easiest way to analyze vast amounts of geographically distributed data. Our intelligent edge software enables near real-time insight from data whether it is seconds or years old. Customers gain the intelligence required to be successful with their digital transformation efforts today and into the future. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with research & development in Bristol, England, we are committed to solving the most difficult challenges at the cornerstone of big data, fog/edge computing, distributed machine learning and data warehousing. Customers benefit from our proven production platform and patented technology by achieving desired business outcomes for Internet of Things (IoT), customer/supplier analytics, network alerting, cybersecurity and surveillance initiatives.

Treasure Data

Seed Round in 2012
Treasure Data, Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based data analytics and management services. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan, Treasure Data provides a platform that allows businesses to collect, store, and analyze data from diverse sources, including web, application, mobile, and sensor data. The platform is designed to enhance data accessibility and understanding, enabling organizations to break down data silos and gain insights into customer behavior across various channels. Additionally, the company offers the Enterprise Fluentd Manager, which enhances its data analytics capabilities with features such as data pipeline monitoring and anomaly detection. Treasure Data serves clients across multiple industries, including digital gaming, advertising technology, media, mobile, retail, and telecommunications, in regions such as Asia, North America, and Europe. As of August 2018, it operates as a subsidiary of ARM Holdings plc.

ContextLogic

Series A in 2012
ContextLogic Inc., formerly known for its Wish ecommerce platform, is a technology-driven company specializing in the online retail sector. The company previously offered a global marketplace connecting consumers with merchants through a mobile shopping experience. Following a recent transaction, ContextLogic has sold its operating assets to Qoo10 and now focuses on leveraging its substantial net operating losses (NOLs) for future financial opportunities. ContextLogic continues to explore ways to maximize the value of these tax attributes while managing reduced operational expenses.

DataTorrent

Seed Round in 2012
DataTorrent Inc. is a real-time Big Data analytics company based in San Jose, California, founded in 2012. The company offers a stream processing platform that enables businesses to ingest, transform, and analyze data in real-time, facilitating informed decision-making. Its flagship product, DataTorrent RTS, allows users to build and deploy production applications efficiently, catering to a variety of industries, including finance, healthcare, retail, and energy. Additionally, DataTorrent provides a suite of applications such as the Omni-channel Payment Fraud Prevention Application, which helps clients combat fraud through advanced data pipelines and visualization tools. The company also features DataTorrent AppFactory, a marketplace for streaming analytics use cases and solutions. Overall, DataTorrent's offerings encompass data ingestion, transformation, risk management, and real-time customer intelligence, supported by services such as design, development, deployment, and ongoing optimization.

Edge Intelligence Software

Seed Round in 2012
Edge Intelligence has developed the industry’s first distributed analytics platform built for both edge computing and hybrid cloud environments. It provides enterprises, communication service providers and government entities with the fastest, easiest way to analyze vast amounts of geographically distributed data. Our intelligent edge software enables near real-time insight from data whether it is seconds or years old. Customers gain the intelligence required to be successful with their digital transformation efforts today and into the future. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with research & development in Bristol, England, we are committed to solving the most difficult challenges at the cornerstone of big data, fog/edge computing, distributed machine learning and data warehousing. Customers benefit from our proven production platform and patented technology by achieving desired business outcomes for Internet of Things (IoT), customer/supplier analytics, network alerting, cybersecurity and surveillance initiatives.
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