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Eastlink Capital

Menlo Park, California · Invests in US; Asia · Website

Thesis

The most valuable companies are built on modern infrastructure and data platforms that serve as foundational layers for the broader technology ecosystem. We seek mission-driven, technical founders solving critical problems in massive markets with unique technology approaches.

Likely not a fit for

Consumer-focused applications, business models without clear enterprise value, teams lacking technical depth in their domain

How they invest

Lead or follow
Leads or follows
Typical decision
~1 month
Warm intro
Not required
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

5 contacts on file

SX

Steven Xi

General PartnerFounding Managing Partner · Primary contact

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s•••@ea•••.com

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Eric Ye

PartnerPartner

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e•••@ea•••.com

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BS

Bob Sun

Venture PartnerVenture Partner

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SW

Stephanie Wang

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CZ

Candice Zihan Xie

InvestorInvestor

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Portfolio

DatabricksDeveloper Tools Infra

Databricks is a leading Data and AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and scale data and AI applications, analytics, and agents. With a unified Data Intelligence Platform, it serves over 20,000 organizations globally, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500.

Modal LabsEnterprise Software

Modal Labs provides high-performance AI infrastructure designed to facilitate the development and deployment of applications for data, AI, and machine learning. Their platform allows developers to run inference, training, and batch processing with instant autoscaling and a seamless developer experience.

MotherduckEnterprise Software

MotherDuck is a serverless data warehouse built on DuckDB, designed to provide analytics solutions for data teams, software engineers, and data scientists, enabling them to query data easily using SQL or natural language.

StreamNativeEnterprise Software

StreamNative provides a fully managed Apache Pulsar service that enables organizations to build and manage data streaming applications with reduced costs and improved scalability.

VellumEnterprise Software

Vellum is a no-code AI agent builder that allows users to create, debug, and deploy AI agents for various operational tasks across industries such as healthcare, retail, supply chain, and insurance.

OmnistrateEnterprise Software

Omnistrate is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling SaaS products. It offers global deployments, SaaS billing, and AI-native infrastructure.

GenmoMedia Entertainment

Genmo is a research lab dedicated to unlocking the right brain of artificial general intelligence through state-of-the-art video generation models. Their models act as world simulators, enabling infinite explorations in synthetic realities.

ExostellarDeveloper Tools Infra

Exostellar is a platform for managing AI infrastructure across multiple clusters and tenants, offering self-managed, heterogeneous AI solutions.

IometeEnterprise Software

IOMETE is a state-of-the-art, fast, scalable, user-friendly Data Lakehouse Platform for AI and Analytics. It offers flexibility and can be deployed anywhere – on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment.

BenchFlowEnterprise Software

BenchFlow provides a platform for benchmarking and evaluating machine learning models, facilitating the comparison and improvement of algorithms through a structured approach.

CloudanixSecurity Cyber

Cloudanix provides a unified cloud-native security platform (CNAPP) that focuses on identity access management, data security, and workload protection for cloud environments.

Secure3Security Cyber

Secure3 is a Web3 Security Audit platform headquartered in Silicon Valley, leveraging a decentralized approach to protect smart contracts, blockchain protocols, dApps, cross-chain bridges, codebases, and the wider Web3 ecosystem against bugs and technical threats.

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Eastlink Capital Research Investment Thesis Eastlink Capital is a specialized early-stage venture capital firm focused on identifying and backing bold founders building the next generation of data and AI infrastructure. Founded in 2013 and led by Steven Xi, a veteran investor with 20+ years of experience in enterprise technology, the firm differentiates itself through deep technical expertise, dom

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