Simon Wu

Investing Profile

Sweet spot: $20M Range: $10M–$40M Fund: $500M

Cathay Innovation thesis

× Denis' Story Denis Barrier’s journey came to a point when he, a French venture capitalist and technologist living in Silicon Valley, met Mingpo Cai, a Chinese serial entrepreneur living in New York who had founded Cathay Capital in Paris. It was in this environment that they discovered a shared vision: a global platform that unifies investment to push forward digital revolution and help entrepreneurs scale technologies that will fundamentally change the world. Denis holds a Ph.D. in solid state physics and started his career in the laboratories of Orange Telecom researching quantum dots. Dri

Sector and stage focus

  • Series A: TransportationTech, Developer Tools, Payments, Travel, Retail, SMB Software, Logistics, Marketplaces, Enterprise, SaaS, FinTech
  • general: Seattle / Portland, Los Angeles / Southern California, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado / Utah, Austin, Midwest, Boston / New England
  • Series B: TransportationTech, Logistics, Travel, Payments, Retail, Marketplaces, SMB Software, SaaS, Enterprise, FinTech, Developer Tools

Recent investments by Simon Wu

Simon Wu has 2 named past investments in the public record. The most recent:

Company Stage Date Round size
Glovo Series B Oct 2017 $30M
Peek Series B Jun 2018 $23M

Frequent co-investors

Simon Wu has co-invested with: Jeff Fluhr, Raj Sandhu.

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