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Sonny Vu

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Managing Partner at Alabaster · Director at Elemental Machines

Salem, New Hampshire, United States

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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.

Director at Elemental Machines

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Elemental Machines's investors · 9

Digitalis VenturesNew York · $100K – $10M checks · since 2018Founders FundSan Francisco · $500K – $5M checksGutbrain VenturesBoston · since 2022Hemisphere Ventures LLCMckinneyJoint EffectsBostonOmega Venture PartnersSilicon Valley · since 2022Sageview CapitalPalo Alto · $20M – $100M checksTau VenturesPalo Alto · $500K checksTenOneTen VenturesLos Angeles · $500K – $5M checks

Co-founders at Elemental Machines

SISridhar Iyengar
Sridhar IyengarExecutive Officer, Director

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

Skills & more

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

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

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Colleagues at Alabaster

Christy Le
Founder at Alabaster
Tuan-Anh Tran
Venture Partner at Alabaster

Frequently asked questions

Who is Sonny Vu?
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.
Where does Sonny Vu work?
Sonny Vu is Managing Partner at Alabaster.
What companies has Sonny Vu invested in?
Investments tracked here include Butlr, Cradlewise, OROS, The Desire Company, zGlue 极戈科技.
Where did Sonny Vu go to school?
Sonny Vu studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD (ABD), Linguistics); Beijing Normal University (Mandarin); Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Mathematics, Hungarian).

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