Ching-yu Hu
Founder + Investor
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Operating Officer
2025 - Current
SGNL is the enterprise platform purpose-built for Continuous Identity—trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide to eliminate standing access in cloud environments, code, and critical applications.
Modern enterprise authorization with human-readable policies and an understanding of business context to deliver just-in-time authorization
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Cisco Investments, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Resolute Ventures, Fika Ventures, Cisco Investments, Costanoa Ventures and Moonshots Capital.
Venture Advisor / EIR
2024 - 2025
Costanoa Ventures leads Formation, Seed, and Series A stage investments in companies that change the way the world does business
Series A Board Director
2022 - 2024
Stealth enterprise software company in the sales tech space started by Tracy Young and Ralph Gootee (ex-founders of Plangrid which they scaled from 0-$100M in ARR in 8 years, then acquired by Autodesk for $875M).
TigerEye is a SAAS company that offers AI powered business simulation engine for strategic sales planning and execution.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Initialized Capital, Next47, Pioneer Fund and Y Combinator.
Series B Investor
2020 - 2024
Observe.AI is a leader in the Contact Center AI space that is bringing the power of agent assistance, automatic speech recognition, and NLP to modern contact centers.
Observe.AI is a conversational intelligence platform for contact centers.
Raised $214,020,000.00 from Next47, Emergent Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, Scale Venture Partners, Steadview Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Zoom, NGP Capital and Carya Venture Partners.
Observer, Board of Directors
2020 - 2024
15Five is an end-to-end performance management and engagement platform that helps employees achieve their fully potential.
15Five is the strategic performance management platform that drives action and impact, helping businesses and their people thrive.
Raised $94,100,000.00 from ServiceNow.
Series C Investor
2020 - 2024
Skydio is the leading U.S. drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight.
Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Raised $740,000,000.00 from KDDI, Axon, Linse Capital, Linse Capital, Hercules Capital, Axon, Andreessen Horowitz, DoCoMo Capital, Next47 and UP Partners.
Observer, Board of Directors
2019 - 2024
Avidbots designs, builds, and deploys a fleet of autonomous floor-cleaning robots and a software management layer for airports, hospitals, industrial warehouses, and schools.
Series B Investor
2018 - 2024
Verkada builds cloud-connected enterprise security camera systems to keep businesses, cities, and schools safe.
Verkada is a cloud-based physical security platform provider helping enterprises operate safer, smarter buildings.
Raised $444,299,996.00 from Felicis, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alkeon Capital, Section Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Friends & Family Capital, Quiet Capital, Sequoia Capital, Linse Capital and Felicis.
Series B Investor
2018 - 2024
Yellowbrick builds high-performance data warehouse platforms for hybrid cloud that are 30x smaller and up to 140x faster than legacy solutions.
Yellowbrick Data empowers companies to make faster decisions with all of their data.
Raised $248,000,000.00 from Citadel, Threshold, DFJ Growth, Next47, Third Point Ventures, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, Third Point Ventures and BMW i Ventures.
Series D Investor
2018 - 2024
Sila is pioneering high energy density silicon-based battery materials to enable lighter, safer, longer-lasting batteries for portable electronics and mass adoption of electric vehicles.