We are a community of founders, operators, and investors with deep domain expertise, diverse networks, and a desire to help innovative companies grow.
We look for massive markets that are well-timed and companies with high growth, reasonable valuations, and impact. We will focus on investments from ACTAI Global and Extreme Tech Challenge but not be limited to those communities.
Digitization and data science are remaking many industries because they lower friction and usage cost and enable replicability and scalability. Digitization allows for the virtualization of physical assets and more efficient asset utilization. Some of these concepts are eloquently articulated by Bill Tai in a Medium post on “Currency in the 4th Industrial Revolution” from 2018.
We also believe technology innovation is borderless, which means great companies can come from anywhere! One of the first companies coming out of the Extreme Tech Challenge was Canva in 2015, which was seeded from the ACTAI Global community.
The need for unified and coordinated initiatives to support (primarily digital) innovation as a catalyst for growth within an overarching framework of sustainability has accelerated as economies shift from being based on oil to electrons.
We are excited to partner with founders who are making a huge impact and provide them with the social and financial capital they need!
Amanda has 20 years in digital media sales and business development leadership experience from Twitter, NBC, Zagat (acquired by Google), 5min (acquired by AOL), TARGUSinfo (acquired by Neustar,) and Acxiom (acquired by IPG.) She been co-investing with Bill for the past 3 years in more than 10 companies.
She is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer for Nfinita, an NFT for social good platform, with the mission to make giving more sustainable and scalable through NFTs and enable every NFT to have a charitable component. She helps run community for ACTAI Global, a 501(c)3 uniting Athletes, Conservationists, Technologists, Artists & Innovators supporting ‘active conservation’ of our environment as partners to 2030Vision, Ocean Elders and Mission Blue, and economic empowerment via entrepreneurship through projects such as the Extreme Tech Challenge.
She advises and is on the board of The Blue Alliance, a 501c3 which she co-founded to accelerate the growth of companies that create a more sustainable planet and healthy society via mentorship and capital. She has a BA from Princeton and MBA from Wharton.
Bill Tai has been funding companies as a Venture Capitalist since 1991 and has had 22 companies he backed at the early stage grow to become listed companies. He has served on 8 public company boards from his portfolio. He is Founding Chairman of Treasure Data (acq by ARM / Softbank), Founding Chairman of IPInfusion (Tokyo:48130) and is a lead seed investor in Canva, Wish and Zoom Video where he was 1st to commit as a backer.
He was founding CEO of Internet Data Center company iAsiaWorks (IPO via Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley) and Founder of Tradebeam, a leader in SaaS based Global Trade Management. After earning a BSEE with Honors from University of Illinois, he joined LSI Logic, a startup formed by the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor. He then earned an MBA at Harvard Business School and did a project for the government of Taiwan where he was given a Badge #A001 to what would become TSMC which has grown to become one of the ten most valuable tech companies now worth $270 Billion.
He then established the semiconductor practice for Alex.Brown & Sons, driving IPOs of Atmel, Adaptec, Cirrus Logic, Dallas Semi, Exar, and Zilog before becoming a venture capitalist. He was granted a PhD from Curtin University where he is an Adjunct Professor focused on “Innovation and Economic Development” and Chairman of ACTAI Global which catalyzed gatherings including the Necker Blockchain Summit and West Tech Fest.
Liven is Australia’s leading community rewards app for the hospitality sector where consumers earn rewards from 5% to 50% back each time they dine.
With more than 1M diners and 1,000 restaurants, Liven has created a digital loyalty program for diners to collect points across restaurants and provided a platform for businesses to launch and issue their own loyalty currencies in Australia and they are expanding to the US market.
Nfinita is an NFT for Social Good platform whose mission is to make giving more sustainable and scalable through NFTs and to enable every NFT to have a charitable component. They are launching NFT collections in partnership with charities around climate change, animal conservation, and youth empowerment to start.
OneOf is an NFT green platform for musicians to connect with their fans supporting nonprofits in the sustainability space. This platform is being developed on proof-of-stake Tezos and has the backing of 3 major record labels. They will be able to release collectible music, art, and “experiences” through the platform and have a number of drops lined up with artists like John Legend and Doja Cat.
Pledge.to is a modern fundraising platform for brands and non-profits with an easy plug-in to Zoom webinars. Since their launch in 2015, Pledge has processed millions of donations to 2+ million nonprofits in 90+ countries and powered fundraisers for 5,000+ mission-oriented brands, nonprofits and individuals, including Zoom, Shopify, Box, Discovery and Evite. They were featured as a Top 5 App at Zoomtopia 2020 and will be featured in Zoom’s App Marketplace.
Named one of the 10 most innovative gaming companies of 2021 by Fast Company, Dapper Labs is the world’s first blockchain entertainment company. Dapper Labs are the creators of CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, as well as the original developers behind Flow, a new decentralized blockchain designed from the ground up for scalability and ease of use.
MicroGen targets the global problem of reducing heavy metal toxins in foods. They have created a microbiome (bacteria) which seeds are dipped in before planting which prevents the uptake of cadmium and arsenic into the plants, which become food. Their products are in application in China cleansing soil from heavy metals and increasing crop yields and they are expanding in the US and EU.