Tony Huang

Tony is a cross border investment professional with nearly two decades of experience in Silicon Valley and Asia’s venture capital industry. Extensive knowledge of venture lending, direct investment, venture fund investment, and corporate development, with emphasis on US and Asia cross-border transactions. Since 1995, Tony has been an active participant in Silicon Valley and Asia’s venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystems, serving as an investment professional, angel investor, trusted advisor, and a catalyst to facilitate entrepreneurial value creation and capital formation. Completed over $300 million in venture debt financing to over 200 companies, invested in 35 privately-held technology startups, sponsored over 25 venture capital fund investments, and established an extensive network of relationships with venture capital firms, limited partners, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and service providers on both sides of the Pacific. Tony has financed and invested in many market leading companies during early stages of the companies’ development, including Fortinet (FTNT), PayPal (Acquired by eBay), Marvell (MRVL), PowerSet, (acquired by Microsoft), Silicon Motion (SIMO), SMIC (SMI), TransMedia (acquired by Cisco), BCDsemi (BCDS), Carbonite (CARB), among others. Tony was most recently an investment professional at NXT Capital Venture Finance, a Chicago-based specialty finance company with over $3 billion under management. Tony was responsible for establishing the Silicon Valley operation for NXT in 2008 and was responsible for sourcing and executing senior and subordinated venture debt transactions ranging from $1 million to $20 million to venture-backed, growth stage companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. Prior to NXT Capital, Tony served as a Vice President of United Commercial Bank’s Technology Banking Group where he focused on leveraging the bank’s unique cross-border commercial banking capabilities to provide working capital financing to later stage technology companies in Silicon Valley and Greater China. Tony started his venture finance career in 1995 with Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). From 1995 to 2004, Tony assumed a wide variety of roles within SVB, initially as a venture lending relationship manger, and most recently as Director of Asia Pacific Business Development, where he was the sole dedicated business development professional responsible for marketing SVB to the Asia-Pacific technology, life-science and venture capita