Sonny Vu

Chief Builder for Liminal, a Temasek-founded group based in Singapore and Boston, that works with and invests in unicorn and repeat founders to build their next venture.Have been an investor / advisor / director for 50+ early stage companies (pre-seed to Series A). Focused on hardtech (themes in advance materials, industrial biotech, semiconductors), enterprise AI, and healthtech. Previously co-founded:* Impact Biosystems (2019)- novel muscle fitness sensing devices (acquired)* Elemental Machines (2014) - hardware and analytics for lab operations (Series B)* Misfit (2011) - fashion-centric wearables and smart home devices (acquired by Fossil for $260m; served as President and CTO for Fossil Group afterward)* AgaMatrix (2001) - blood glucose monitors and digital health for diabetes (acquired by i-SENS)* FireSpout (1998) - ML / NLP for autosummarization (acquired by Ask Jeeves)Select boards:AmalgamRX - enterprise digital medicine AI (Director, 2021 - present)Cyabra - misinformation cybersecurity AI (Director, 2021 - present)Neteera - private, contact-free patient monitoring (Director, 2017 - present)Perfect Day - industrial biotech for animal-free dairy (Chairman, 2016 - 2019)VI - enterprise health AI (Director, 2017 - present)Raised $257m in 22 rounds (Pre-Seed to Series C) for companies I’ve founded; helped portfolio companies raise a lot more. Before startups, I worked at Microsoft Research in NLP, worked on PhD in linguistics @MIT (Noam Chomsky, Ken Hale), studied math @UIUC. When Im not doing startup stuff, Im either playing with my two kids or wondering about things I don’t understand. If you have cool dreams of the future, Id love to chat!