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Irving Hsu

Investor

Principal at Mayfield Fund

Menlo Park, California

Writes $1M – $15M checks · typically $7.8M

About

Irving Hsu invests in early-stage AI and enterprise companies at Mayfield Fund, and has worked on the firm's investments in Inception Labs, Numeral, and Supio, as well as the Mayfield AI Garage. Before joining the firm, he held roles as an ML engineering lead, data scientist, and product manager at Facebook/Instagram, Slack, Airbnb, and Ethos. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and an MBA from Stanford, where he was a Terman Award recipient and an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software

Experience

  1. Mayfield FundPrincipalcurrent2023 — presentMenlo Park, CA
  2. InceptionPre-Seed Investorcurrent2024 — present
  3. EthosProduct and Data Lead, ML/Growth2021 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
  4. SlackSenior Data Scientist, Growth2018 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
  5. InstagramMachine Learning Engineer2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  6. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ByersEngineering Fellow2016San Francisco Bay Area
  7. AirbnbMachine Learning Engineer | Kleiner Perkins Fellow2016San Francisco Bay Area
  8. Stanford UniversityArtificial Intelligence (CS 221) Teaching Assistant2015 — 2016Stanford, CA
  9. Stanford UniversityProbability and Statistics (CS 109) Teaching Assistant2015 — 2016Stanford, CA
  10. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)Graduate AI Researcher2015 — 2016
  11. GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2015San Francisco Bay Area
  12. FacebookSoftware Engineering Intern2015San Francisco Bay Area
  13. LinkedInSoftware Engineering Intern2014San Francisco Bay Area
  14. Sandia National LaboratoriesCybersecurity Research Intern2012Livermore, CA
  15. Stanford University School of MedicineBioinformatics Research Intern2011Stanford, CA

Education

  1. Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMaster of Business Administration - MBA
  2. Stanford UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) and Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science - AI Concentration
  3. Harvard UniversityMaster of Public Administration - MPA

Skills & more

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Investments

Investor

Inception LabsNumeralSupio

Per the firm's website.

Colleagues at Mayfield Fund

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Barak Turovsky
Investor at Mayfield Fund
Brandon Scott
Investor at Mayfield Fund
Chris Rowen
Investor at Mayfield Fund
Dileep George
Investor at Mayfield Fund

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Tejas Maniar
Investor at Mayfield Fund

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Irving Hsu work?
Irving Hsu is Principal at Mayfield Fund.
What does Irving Hsu invest in?
Irving Hsu invests in AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Software.
What check size does Irving Hsu write?
Irving Hsu typically writes checks of $1M – $15M.

Same school

Also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business1,291

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Also attended Stanford University2,000

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Also attended Harvard University1,457

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Shared employers

Also worked at Inception3

Navin ChaddhaManaging Partner at MayfieldMei Z.General Partner at Alloy FundTim TullyPartner at Menlo Ventures

Also worked at Ethos15

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Also worked at Slack51

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Also worked at Google1,560

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