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Sonny Vu

Investor

Managing Partner at Alabaster

Salem, New Hampshire, United States

About

Sonny Vu is Chief Builder at Liminal, a Singapore and Boston-based fund backed by Temasek that partners with experienced founders to build and scale new ventures. He has co-founded five companies across hardware, healthtech, and consumer devices—including Misfit (acquired by Fossil for $300M), Elemental Machines, AgaMatrix, Impact Biosystems, and FireSpout—and has served as investor, advisor, or director to over 50 early-stage companies in hardtech, robotics, semiconductors, and healthtech. His background includes research at Microsoft in natural language processing and doctoral work in linguistics at MIT.

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Experience

  1. LiminalChief Buildercurrent2025 — presentSingapore, Singapore
  2. AlabasterFoundercurrent2016 — presentUnited States
  3. BiolinqChief Architect2025San Diego, California, United States
  4. Elemental MachinesDirector (Founder)2014 — 2023Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  5. AREVOChief Executive Officer2020 — 2023Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  6. Impact BiosystemsDirector (Founder)2019 — 2022Greater Boston
  7. Fossil Group, Inc.President and CTO, Connected Devices2015 — 2018Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
  8. Misfit WearablesCEO, Chairman (Founder)2011 — 2015Salem, NH
  9. AgaMatrixCEO, Chairman (Founder)2001 — 2011
  10. FireSpoutCTO (Founder)1999 — 2001
  11. MicrosoftResearcher1999

Education

  1. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD (ABD), Linguistics1996 — 2000
  2. Beijing Normal UniversityMandarin1999
  3. Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsMathematics, Hungarian1995
  4. The Hebrew University of JerusalemHebrew1993 — 1994
  5. University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBS in Mathematics and BA in Linguistics with Distinction1991 — 1996

Skills & more

Product Design99Machine Learning99Design Strategy99User Experience99Software Engineering99Strategy99Start-ups99Semiconductors16Materials Science15Power Electronics15Language Teaching65Number Theory

Languages English · French · Hebrew · Hungarian · Mandarin · Russian · Spanish · Taoih · Vietnamese

From Sonny's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology849

Fred WilsonCo-founder & Partner at Union Square VenturesAileen LeeFounder & Managing Partner of Cowboy VenturesHemant TanejaCEO & Managing Director of General CatalystBrad FeldCo-founder of Foundry and TechstarsMatt HuangCo-founder and Managing Partner at ParadigmDelian AsparouhovPartner at Founders Fund and co-founder of Varda

+ 843 more

Also attended Beijing Normal University13

Sandy YuanAdvisor, AV & Robotics at Verissimo VenturesLisa LiSenior Investment Associate at Rocana VenturesAlasdair ThongFounding Partner at Selvedge VentureNoémie Bristol CourgeonInvestment Director at Axeleo CapitalEvan ThorpePrincipal, Asia Pacific at SixThirty VenturesJohn MonagleCo-Founder and Managing Partner at Benchstrength Partners

+ 7 more

Also attended Budapest University of Technology and Economics10

Sandor PalfyVenture Partner at F-Prime Capital PartnersIstvan SzandaInvestor at Sand Hill AngelsPeter MacherManaging Partner at Vespucci PartnersLevente ZsigmondInvestment Director at Vespucci PartnersDalma RiczuSenior Recruiting & Organizational Development Specialist at MaximonPatricia SilvaVenture Partner at Satgana

+ 4 more

Also attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign259

Sundeep PeechuGeneral Partner at Felicis VenturesDeep NisharInvestment Team at General CatalystPrashant ShahPartner at Monta Vista CapitalNoorPartner at Clear VenturesPaul BragielCo-founder at Golden Gate VenturesGreg RudinBoard Partner at Menlo Ventures

+ 253 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Biolinq6

Alexander HoffmannGeneral Partner at ForbionDaniel BradburyInvestor at BioBritRob ChaplinskyCo-Founder & Managing Director at Link VenturesDaniel FrankePrincipal at M VenturesPascal KroteeSenior Associate at RiverVest VentureKatie ElliasManaging Partner at JDRF T1D Fund

Also worked at Elemental Machines3

Robert DavoliFounder & General Partner at Gutbrain VenturesJeff KlemensPartner at Sageview CapitalSridhar IyengarVenture Partner at Breakout Ventures

Also worked at AREVO3

Mathieu CostesOperating Partner at Airbus VenturesTina TosukhowongInvestment Director at TDK VenturesBrian ShinManaging Partner, VitalStage Ventures at VitalStage Ventures

Also worked at Fossil Group, Inc.1

Abhijeeth NaikDirector, Finance and Administration at Amicus Capital Partners

Colleagues at Alabaster

Tuan-Anh Tran
Venture Partner at Alabaster