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 Series A 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 has over 20 years in digital media sales and business development leadership experience from Twitter, NBC, Zagat (acquired by Google), 5min (acquired by AOL), TARGUSinfo (acquired by Neustar), and Acxiom (acquired by IPG). She has been personally co-investing with Bill since 2018.
Amanda is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Metagood with Chairman Bill Tai and CEO Danny Yang. Metagood strives to make the world better through Web3. Through their NFT collection OnChainMonkey, she has created a strong community that believes in doing well and doing good. Metagood was awarded Fast Company’s 2022 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
She also drives community for ACTAI Global, a 501(c)3 uniting athletes, conservationists, technologists, artists, and innovators. ACTAI Global is supporting the ‘active conservation’ of our environment through partnerships with 2030Vision, Ocean Elders, and Mission Blue, and economic empowerment via entrepreneurship through projects such as the Extreme Tech Challenge.
She has a BA from Princeton University in Public Policy and an MBA from the Wharton School at the 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.comOneOf, 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.
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%
Archipelo is creating the “Google page rank” for open source code. This team is creating a master graph of the world’s code, combined with the developers’ contributions to the open source ecosystem. Jure Leskovec PhD, Chief Scientist at Pinterest, said “an optimal version 1.0 of the Archipelo code discovery engine should deliver a ‘perfect Stackoverflow answer’ when a developer performs a search, linking the most relevant code library with the best information on its use and implementation.”
San Francisco
Ballet is a U.S. company that provides simple and secure cryptocurrency storage solutions for the global mainstream market. Ballet is the team behind the world’s first multi-currency, non-electronic, physical crypto wallet. The company was founded in 2019 by Bobby Lee and an international team of cryptocurrency industry veterans. Ballet is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States, and has an office in Shanghai, China.
LAS VEGAS,NV
Blaze is the smarter no-code platform that improves organization's operations. Whether it's sales automation tools, custom reports, or complex workflows, Blaze gives non-technical people he superpower to become an entrepreneurial product builder. The founding team founded Enplug, the #1 open digital signage software acquired by Spectrio, and are working together on Blaze.
Los Angeles
CARIUMA is a B-Corp Certified sustainable fashion brand, starting with footwear, which works exclusively with ethical factories and sources only natural and recycled premium materials. All shipping impact is offset to become carbon neutral and their single-box shipping method is crafted with recycled and 100% recyclable materials. For every pair of sneakers sold, the brand plants a pair of trees in the Brazilian rainforest (over 1.2 million trees planted) to directly aid reforestation and endangered species habitats.
Singapore
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.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
Named one of the 10 most innovative gaming companies of 2021 by Fast Company, Dapper Labs is the world’s first blockchain entertainment company. Dapper Labs are the creators of CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, as well as the original developers behind Flow, a new decentralized blockchain designed from the ground up for scalability and ease of use.
VANCOUVER, CANADA
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 Energy Intelligence Platform is an AI and cloud-based PaaS data analytics solution for commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and renewable energy plants. Collecting data from thousands of buildings, facilities and plants in 10 different countries, the data science-centric Faradai Energy Intelligence Platform employs machine learning algorithms and big data analytics in order to provide energy saving, operational efficiency, energy procurement optimization, predictive maintenance, solar energy and sustainability management for its customers.
London, England
Hillridge’s mission is to help farmers mitigate the financial impact of poor weather on their crops or livestock, in a way that goes well beyond existing crop or livestock insurance. They take weather data, machine learning and mass-personalisation based on what, where, and when the farmer is producing to create parametric insurance and self-executing contracts to offer farmers greater peace of mind about the one big thing they can’t control: bad weather. They were one of 2 Global Winners of the 2021 Extreme Tech Challenge.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
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.
Buffalo, New York
Liven is Australia’s leading community rewards app for the hospitality sector where consumers earn rewards from 5% to 50% back each time they dine.
With more than 1M diners and 1,000 restaurants, Liven has created a digital loyalty program for diners to collect points across restaurants and provided a platform for businesses to launch and issue their own loyalty currencies in Australia and they are expanding to the US market.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Metagood's mission is to empower communities to be catalysts for positive collective action. They launched OnChainMonkey, the historic first profile picture collection all on chain in a single transaction, which has created value for its community and done real world good. They have launched a DAO and a Missions framework which incentivizes their community to take online and offline actions through NFT and fungible token rewards.
REDMOND, WASHINGTON
MicroTau is a developer and manufacturer of direct contactless microfabrication technology designed to print microscopic patterns with light and is scalable to large surfaces. The company focuses on reducing the fuel consumption of the commercial airline industry and commercializing its technology to print microscopic patterns found in nature, allowing potential applications in aviation to reduce fuel consumption and furniture manufacturing for matte or antibacterial finishes. They were the Advanced Materials Category Runner Up of the 2022 Extreme Tech Challenge
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
OneOf is an NFT green platform for musicians to connect with their fans supporting nonprofits in the sustainability space. This platform is being developed on proof-of-stake Tezos and has the backing of 3 major record labels. They will be able to release collectible music, art, and “experiences” through the platform and have a number of drops lined up with artists like John Legend and Doja Cat.
MIAMI, FLORIDA
Pledge.to is a modern fundraising platform for brands and non-profits with an easy plug-in to Zoom webinars. Since their launch in 2015, Pledge has processed millions of donations to 2+ million nonprofits in 90+ countries and powered fundraisers for 5,000+ mission-oriented brands, nonprofits and individuals, including Zoom, Shopify, Box, Discovery and Evite. They were featured as a Top 5 App at Zoomtopia 2020 and will be featured in Zoom’s App Marketplace.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
Tract is the world's first peer-to-peer learning community. Founded by CEO Ari Memar with his former high school teacher, Esther Wojcicki, Tract was inspired by Ari’s time working as a camp counselor and by Esther Wojcicki’s nourishing, project based style of teaching, to create a platform that would inspire kids to develop a love for learning. Ari had a vision for a curated, safe learning community where kids explored what they actually enjoyed learning. When you join Tract.app, you will find videos your kids will actually want to watch. Since everything is created by kids for kids, the content really appeals to kids ages 8-13
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
TX 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.
BROOKLYN, NY