Stella Liu

An 18-month accelerator program and VC fund for pre-seed/seed stage startups with a portfolio of 220+ that have raised $3B. Alumni include TS Conductor, Banyan Infrastructure, and Antora Energy. • Manage a portfolio of 110+ early stage startup investments: assess term sheets, review cap tables to track dilution, analyze legal documents for critical issues, and develop investment memos on key investment decisions. • Support ~60 portfolio companies annually on their fundraising process, making ~600 introductions to an ecosystem of 1,500+ investors, and refining their pitch deck and fundraising strategy. • Conduct diligence on the market, competition, technology, unit economics, scale up risks, and team to develop ~100 memos from a pool of ~1,000 startups with the technical team, selecting the top 20+ startups per cohort. • Lead portfolio review strategy to track the performance of ~220+ portfolio companies and model fund performance.

•Stanford Impact Fund: Led the investment process from sourcing, diligence, and final memo for Matriark Foods; startup received $50K of seed investment (top 3 out of 100+ sourced startups) from the investment committee • Favorite Classes: Touchy Feely, Investments, Financial Modeling, and Negotiations

Conducted market, competitive, and financial model analyses for a Series C lead investment in AMP Robotics, a robotics company using computer vision to detect recyclable materials. Looked at hundreds of digital companies in agriculture and manufacturing and developed investment theses.

Sourced three new deals from the Stanford network, screened and prioritized 40+ startups, and supported technical diligence on a Series A lead investment into Perch Energy, a vertical software startup for community solar.

Product: Combines physics based models and machine learning to reduce sampling costs by 90% for a new carbon credit program in agriculture Led the development and launch of the software, data pipeline, and machine learning algorithms for the agriculture carbon credit program, growing users to 1,200+ and acreage submitted to 18 million acres in the first year. This "first of a kind" sampling and modeling approach was approved by Verra.

Owned the portfolio's first AI strategy to extend a developer tools portfolio with AI. Let the first AI product that analyzed the quality of requirements with natural language processing from concept to launch: validating tech requirements, forecasting resources and finances, conducting market research, and executing the product’s go-to-market strategy. - Researched and pitched the strategy to extend the developer tool portfolio with AI, earning $MM commitment from 14 executives. - Championed my product as a keynote speaker and session leader at THINK, an IBM conference that convenes ~40,000 executives. - Innovated first-of-its-kind beta program that crowdsourced customer data from eight enterprise clients, working with tech executives to build the product’s natural language processing model, while managing five data scientists. *Received an educational leave of absence from March 2017 to Sep 2017 to pursue the Fulbright Program (please see details under education)

First associate product manager to be hired by IBM.

Founded a "smart" Internet of Things (IoT) agricultural startup (one of five accepted by UC Irvine’s incubator) that detected the optimal levels of water, sunlight, nitrogen and potassium levels for plant growth. Contributed to the White House Office of Science and Technology workshop that brought together 70+ cross-sector stakeholders to devise a National Call to Action around using data and analytics to better track natural resources.

Founder of the Gigaton: Grew newsletter to ~6,000 subscribers across all the top seven MBA programs and established chapters at Stanford, Yale, Harvard, and Berkeley; Featured in the New York Times and Poets and Quant.

Based on a high performance review, I was granted a leave of absence from my job to pursue the Fulbright. I was selected by the U.S. Department of State to become an U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at NTU.

I also gained international experiences in Cambodia, Laos, Korea, Vietnam, Costa Rica and Thailand.

During my undergrad, I was entrepreneurial and brought my ideas for a new startup and 3 student organizations from concept to full execution. Profiled in the: ► The Huffington Post ► The World Journal, the largest Chinese newspaper in the US ► The University of California's Office of the President's Publication on Technology Commercialization Awards: ► Junior Phi Beta Kappa Awardee: Awarded to ~ 70 students out of 7,000 total students ► Chancellor’s Distinction for Leadership, Research and Service: Given to 48 out of 6,700 graduating seniors ► Order of Merit for Top 2% of Social Science Graduates ► Campus-Wide Honors for the top 3% of total undergraduate population of 29,307 students