Investment Stage

Focus Areas

About Investor

Charles Ling is Managing Director and Investment Director at Foothill Ventures (formerly Tsingyuan Ventures), a seed-stage firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area that backs immigrant and technical founders. His investing centers on pre-seed and seed through Series A in AI, energy tech, semiconductors and material science, with an investment range of $100K to $10.0M and a typical sweet spot around $1.0M. His prior experience includes serving as Finance Partner at Amino Capital, Associate Director at Standard Chartered Bank and analyst at JP Morgan First Capital Securities, giving him a deep background in finance and cross-border capital markets before moving full-time into early-stage venture.