About Us
Co-founded by Bill Tai and Amanda Terry, ACTAI Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by an international community of entrepreneurs and investors with deep domain expertise and desire to support innovative founders.
Our Criteria
We invest primarily in pre-seed to seed stage companies and believe innovation can happen anywhere.
We are interested in startups that:
Apply digitization and data science to lower friction and make industries more efficient and processes more scalable and replicable
Disrupt massive markets and are well-timed in their technology wave with high growth, reasonable valuations, and positive impact
Solve challenges aligned with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals in an ESG-driven framework to use technology as a force for good
Connect with us
Amanda Terry is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the ACTAI Unicorn Fund II. Amanda Terry is an innovative entrepreneur, community builder, and angel investor with over 20 years of digital media sales and business development leadership experience. She has been personally angel investing with Bill Tai since 2018.
She is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer for Metagood, a pioneering Web3 company building on Bitcoin. They made history with the launch of their NFT collection, OnChainMonkey. The collection was the first 10K PFP collection all on-chain in a single Ethereum transaction in September 2021. They made history again becoming the first 10K NFT collection on Bitcoin in February 2023.
Prior to Metagood, she led direct response ad product sales at Twitter. She was also part of the early TARGUSinfo (acq by Neustar) digital team running Publisher Development and Identity. She has held leadership roles at NBC in Corporate Development for their Local Media division when they acquired the Weather Channel, was one of the first US employees at video syndication platform 5Min Media (acq by AOL), and was part of a 2-person partnerships team running Zagat (acq by Google).
She is deeply committed to driving community engagement and social impact through her volunteer work with 501c3 ACTAI Global. Amanda has a BA from Princeton University in Public Policy and East Asian Studies, and an MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance.
Bill has been funding companies as a Venture Capitalist since 1991 and has had 22 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 the Founding Chairman of Treasure Data (acquired by ARM / Softbank), Founding Chairman of IPInfusion (Tokyo:48130), Chairman of NASDAQ (HUT) listed HUT8 Mining, and is a lead seed investor in Canva, Dapper Labs, Safety Culture, and Zoom Video where he was 1st to commit as a backer. He was the founding CEO of Internet Data Center company iAsiaWorks (IPO via Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley) and founder of Tradebeam, a leader in SaaS-based Global Trade Management.
He has been involved in the digital asset ecosystem since 2010 and has been involved as a catalyst in the creation of Bitfury, Fluidity.io, Gigaverse.com, OneOf, Metagood (Chairman), and Powerledger.
After earning a BSEE with honors from the University of Illinois, he joined LSI Logic, a startup formed by the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor. He then earned an MBA at Harvard Business School. Returning to Taiwan, he was issued Badge #A001 just after the formation of TSMC. Afterward, he 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 and economic empowerment via entrepreneurship through projects such as the Extreme Tech Challenge, Necker Blockchain Summit, and West Tech Fest.
ACTAI Ventures was created in 2021 to address global challenges through technology. Founders Amanda Terry & Bill Tai bring decades of operational experience & investing in companies. Their vision is to leverage both financial and social capital to support and grow impactful companies.
We carefully choose who we invest in and who we partner with to ensure our vision for the future is aligned.
Our values personally and as a venture capital firm are:
Always Act With
Integrity
Stand For Something Greater Than Yourself
Contribute More Value Than You Take
Human Capital Is More Precious Than Financial Capital
Empower People To Solve Problems At Scale
For The Truly Engaged, Work And Play Are One
Investors US 73%
Non-US 27%
Professional
investors 25%
CFO of 5+ publicly
traded companies 1
Worked at the United Nations for 10+ years 1
Competed in Extreme Tech Challenge 15%
Over 50 investments in crypto 1
Published
books 2
Kiteboarders/
Have tried kiting 37%
Our Limited Partners have founded, and work at, some of the top technology and investment companies in the world, including:
San Francisco
Archipelo will be the underlying system of record for code provenance in every enterprise. Archipelo generates a historical record of all coding events for every commit and release, allowing organizations to:
Archipelo has the ability to detect all instances of AI generated code from the start of the software development lifecycle— which has implications for security and also intellectual property.
LAS VEGAS,NV
Ballet is a US-based cryptocurrency company that provides simple and secure cold storage solutions for the global mainstream market. Ballet is the team behind the world’s first multi-currency, non-electronic, physical cold storage card, which can hold Bitcoin and over 1,000 other cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The company was founded in 2019 by Bobby Lee and an international team of cryptocurrency industry veterans. Ballet is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, and also has a R&D office in Shanghai, China.
Los Angeles
Blaze.tech is the smarter no-code platform that’s revolutionizing the way teams build web apps and tools. Blaze’s AI-powered platform improves operations and productivity by enabling non-technical people to build and launch custom HIPAA-compliant software in minutes, without writing any code! From dashboards and workflows to portals and more, Blaze’s all-in-one-builder has pre-built integrations, security and reliability. The founders, Nanxi Liu and Tina Denuit-Wojcik, previously founded Enplug, a leading digital signage software, which was acquired in 2021.
Singapore
Tempo Livre with its trademark CARIUMA is a B-Corp certified sustainable fashion brand, with deep roots in skateboarding and surfing. The brand is among the highest scoring B-Corporations in the world in its segment, and plants a pair of trees in the Brazilian rainforest (over 2 million trees planted) to directly aid reforestation and endangered species habitats. Through its roster of professional athletes, Cariuma has gotten gold, silver and bronze medals in Tokyo 2020 Olympics and has dominated the main skateboarding and surfing global stages, paving the way for its global expansion. The brand can be found online and in the world’s leading fashion retailers such as Selfridges, Lane Crawford, Philip Browne among others.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
Backing the team that created Fluent Bit who Bill worked with from Treasure Data where Bill was Founding Chairman, Calyptia is a DevOps platform that provides developers deep insight into their data pipelines and unlocks value and understanding of how data is flowing. Calyptia calls it "first mile observability". Calyptia Fluent Bit Enterprise will support cloud native environments, including on-premises and cloud-based Kubernetes. Calyptia’s acquisition by Chronosphere in December 2023 marked the first exit of our ACTAI Unicorn Fund II LP’s investments.
LONDON, ENGLAND
Dyad is building a semantic layer for healthcare to power a suite of value-added applications, and enable coordination between payers, providers and patients. They provide an AI-powered knowledge graph that integrates with EHRs and data lakes, and powers a range of solutions including risk adjustment, clinical documentation improvement and optimisation of value-based care incentives.
London, England
Faradai is a London based Net Zero Intelligence company, supercharging net zero journey of enterprises with AI. Faradai targets the problems of enterprises to collect carbon footprint, ESG and energy performance related data automatically, granular and verified way, and then obtain AI powered clarity to reduce their emissions, get recommendations and guidance on how to decarbonize.
Faradai has a set of cloud based software offerings running on top of the Net Zero Intelligence Platform including, Carbon Accounting, Energy Decarbonization, DecarbonAI - AI powered Net Zero Co-pilot, ESG reporting, Environmental Compliance, Trace4Zero – 24/7 Energy Purchase Analytics, and Utility Bill Management. The AI platform helps facility & energy & sustainability managers who have challenges to manage large number of facilities, to gather and analyze real time energy consumption & operational & ESG data across their building portfolio & supply chain in real time.
Currently Faradai serves to more than 19000 facilities in 40 countries, including Europe, UK, Middle East and APAC regions. Among current clients, there are companies like CBRE, ISS, Atalian, Shell, Vodafone, DHL, Zara, Tristone, IKEA, Allianze, Turkish Airlines, Heineken, Pepsico, Socar, Media Markt, M&S, BNP Paribas, BBVA, EON Energy and big metropolitan municipalities like İstanbul.
San Francisco, CA
Fathom is an app using AI that records, transcribes, highlights, and summarizes your Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams calls so users can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes. Fathom uses all that information to auto-generate call notes and syncs them to Salesforce, Hubspot, or Close CRM.
San Francisco, CA
Gigaverse is a live interactive video platform with simple AI tools to enhance engagement, moderation, and monetization capabilities.
At Gigaverse we believe that people deserve better, meaningful ways to authentically interact with their communities in real-time video.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Hillridge helps agriculture and other climate-exposed businesses assess their climate risks and buy affordable weather insurance. While many farmers struggle to protect themselves from drought and other major weather risks, they also miss out on weather derivatives and insurance that larger businesses can access. Because of this, we have made it our mission to help farmers mitigate the financial impact of poor weather on their crops or livestock.
Our online platform connects farmers to global insurers and large food & fibre corporations who can facilitate cover that protects against the weather risks that most affect their farming operation.
Hillridge build Australia’s first automated weather insurance platform for agriculture, and now also operates across southeast Asia. In 2021, Hillridge was global co-winner of the Extreme Tech Challenge, beating 3700 startups addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Jamaica
JACANA, Jamaica’s leading wellness brand, brings high-quality botanical solutions from the mountains of St. Ann to holistic healthcare and wellbeing practices around the world. Founded in 2018, JACANA harnesses the full-spectrum power of medicinal plants, like cannabis, to produce therapeutic products for the body and mind. With USDA-organic farm certification and a purpose-built EU-GMP manufacturing facility, JACANA is dedicated to meeting internationally-recognized standards for quality, sustainability and equity. JACANA products are available in 4 countries across 70+ distribution partners. Bill Tai is an early investor and on the board.
Rochester, New York
Kickfurther.com is the premier inventory funding platform that helps growing brands fund faster growth by enabling larger, more cost-effective inventory production. They connect brands to a private marketplace of funders who finance new inventory production while also allowing brands the flexibility to pay their funded inventory only once it begins selling. Our private marketplace features best-in-market pricing and lowers SME funding costs.
Berg, Germany
Liquidium is a peer-to-peer lending protocol operating exclusively on the Bitcoin blockchain. This innovative solution allows users to lend and borrow native Bitcoin using native Ordinals as collateral, eliminating the need for intermediaries or custodians. Liquidium has already launched an NFT lending protocol on Stacks as an MVP and is the first Ordinal lending platform on native Bitcoin.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Liven is a leading global data, technology and customer experience provider to the hospitality industry. They provide the critical infrastructure for brands to create micro-economies at scale with its Brandollar platform launched in 2020. Today Liven serves over 6,000 customers across Australia, Sth East Asia and the USA with solutions from the front-of-house to the kitchen and back-office. Liven enables any brand, franchisee, or venue to harness the power of Al and best-of-breed technologies delivered as one to leapfrog digital transformation to a fully digitised state - from self-driving currency to Al-enriched data insights and automated process management.
San Francisco, CA
Magic Hour is an all-in-one AI video creation platform that simplifies the entire content production process, from ideation to final output. It enables users to effortlessly create engaging videos that is currently being used by several NBA teams.
REDMOND, WASHINGTON
Metagood is the leader in digital artifacts, shaping the future through technology, art, and community. They launched OnChainMonkey, one of the most iconic, innovative and impactful NFT collections on Ethereum and Bitcoin and created a strong community around web3 making a positive world impact. Metagood also launched Osura, a leading marketplace and curated destination for high value digital artifacts (NFTs) on Bitcoin.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
MicroTau prints nature’s functional surfaces by bringing scalable microfabrication to industries including aerospace, shipping and health care.
We leverage millions of years of evolutionary design to produce drag-reducing, self-cleaning and anti-fouling properties to any surface.
Miami, FL
Ola GG is the home for the Hispanic web3 gaming community. Ola's platform empowers its community economically. The Ola community participates in the web3 gaming economy by creating content, undertaking quests, scholarship programs and participating in esports tournaments.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Pledge is the world's most trusted and innovative fundraising partner that has raised over $100,000,000 for charities, making it easy for nonprofits, companies, and individuals to make a difference in their communities and around the globe. Pledge powers donations through leading online brands, such as Zoom, CNN, Evite, Shopify, Legacy, and Warner Bros Discovery, as well as democratizes fundraising through free fundraising pages, cryptocurrency, text-to-donate, virtual events, and more. Pledge processes donations to 2+ million verified nonprofits and charitable organizations of all sizes and is a proud member of the UN Global Compact, Pledge 1%, Conscious Capitalism, and PledgeLA.
Charleston, South Carolina
Positional is building a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search. Positional is backed by a leading group of investors including Y Combinator, Lachy Groom Fund, Pioneer Fund, Lorimer Ventures, and an incredible group of angel investors.
San Francisco, CA
Robin is the world's first AI-powered wellness companion, founded by a Harvard physician. Leveraging powerful AI technology and decades of clinical research, Robin provides personalized mental health support that is affordable and accessible, serving as your personal, on-demand wellness buddy.
MIAMI, FLORIDA
Superlogic (formerly OneOf) powers the biggest customer loyalty and connected commerce programs worldwide. Our enterprise software platform turbocharges revenue and consumer engagement, captures up to 80% more data, and better manages liabilities that cost brands billions.
Austin, Texas
Tribute makes it easy to create group video gifts. They were selected to the INC500 (#256) for 2021, closed 2021 at $4.3M revenue and sent 3M+ videos through their platform in the last 12 months. They also recently created new partnerships with 1-800-Flowers and the AARP. Their average customer invites 30 people to participate in their Tribute and 82% of Tribute recipients cry "tears of joy" watching their video.
San Francisco
TrueVault makes software for privacy-conscious businesses. They believe if businesses have access to tools that make getting and staying compliant simple and straightforward, respecting consumers' data privacy becomes the sensible default. Designed by attorneys, TrueVault covers all US state-level data privacy laws- including CCPA (California), VCDPA (Virginia), CPA (Colorado), and CTDPA (Connecticut) as well as GDPR. They provide a step-by-step workflow to help consumer businesses map their data practices and be confident in the accuracy of your Privacy Policy.
San Leandro, CA
Vantage specializes in developing and manufacturing cutting-edge flying cameras, leveraging over two centuries of combined experience from premier design consultancies and founding seventeen companies. Supported by investors with a track record in pioneering drone companies and guiding high-tech firms to acquisition or IPO, Vantage has spent the last seven years perfecting the safest and most powerful flying camera in the world.