Tony Huang

Tony is a cross border investment professional with over 30 years 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 40+ 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 PayPal, Fortinet, Marvell, PowerSet, Silicon Motion, SMIC, TransMedia, BCDsemi, Carbonite, Splashtop, iWatt, among others. Tony currently serves as Manging Partner of K2 Venture Finance, a private debt fund. Previously, Tony was a venture partner at WI Harper Group, an early stage venture capital fund with $1B under management where he led investments in Quixey, Cloudless, Synthego, Coffee Meets Bagel, Wallaby, Percolata, and held board director roles at Ooma, Quixey, and Penske Media. Before WI Harper, Tony was an investment professional at NXT Capital Venture Finance, the venture debt arm of Chicago-based NXT Capital, a specialty finance company with over $5 billion under management. Tony was responsible for establishing the Silicon Valley operation for NXT in 2008 and was primarily 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. 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 professional, and lastly as Director of International Venture Capital, where he was the sole dedicated business development professional responsible for all Asia related businesses for SVB, including venture fund investments, direct investments, and various strategic initiatives including JV in China with Shanghai Pudon Development Bank, JV in Japan with Aozora Bank, and JV in Korea with KTB, among others.