The University of San Francisco Center for Business Studies & Innovation in Asia-Pacific (CBSI) & the venture capital firm Amino Capital invite you to the USF-Amino Venture Capital Summit on April 12th, an engaging discussion & exploration of technology trends, venture capital, & career opportunities related to generative artificial intelligence innovations such as ChatGPT.

The USF-Amino Venture Capital Summit is co-sponsored & hosted by Amino Capital, the USF Center for Business Studies & Innovation in Asia-Pacific Global Student Ambassador Program (GSAP), the University of San Francisco MBA & Executive MBA programs, & the USF Startup Club.

Speakers:

Dr. Huican Zhu - Managing Partner, Amino Capital

Dr. Huican Zhu is a Founder & Managing Partner at Amino Capital. He joined Google in 2000, where he was responsible for many significant Google research projects, a pioneer of Google's image search, & the first Senior Chinese Engineer & Senior Manager. From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Zhu was the Chief Architect & General Manager of Infrastructure at Tencent. He is an investor & technology leader who consistently receives high praise for his vision & research capabilities.

Samanyou Garg - Founder & CEO, WriteSonic

Samanyou Garg is an entrepreneur with a passion for solving complex real-world problems using AI. He built & launched several profit & non-profit projects that have been featured on the websites of Wired, International Business Times, Lifehacker, Entrepreneur, TNW, & others, & are actively used by thousands of people all over the world. Mr. Garg received the 2019 Global Undergraduate Awards (often referred to as the junior Nobel Prize) for his research on Group Emotion Recognition using Machine Learning.

Larry Li - Managing Partner, Amino Capital

Larry Li is a Founder & Managing Partner at Amino Capital, where he leads investments in companies primarily in the early seed & Series A stages. He has an excellent track record of investing in high growth companies with successful exits, among them Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Mobike (acquired by Meituan/Tencent), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (Acquired by Kuaishou/Tencent), Voyage, AIFI.io, Vicarious, Paperspace, Skycatch, Webflow, & Chime Bank (Invested in 2013, & $14.5B valuation in 2020). Mr. Li also co-founded TAF (invested in ZOOM in 2011), & is featured on the TechCrunch List for first check & lead VCs in 2020.