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Michael Jin serves as Managing Partner at Foothill Ventures (formerly Tsingyuan Ventures), with investment interests spanning semiconductors, medical devices, and deep tech applications, typically investing between $100K and $10.0M across various stages. His verified work background includes founding his first startup in China in 1988 while still a college student and launching his first American startup in 1999 during his PhD studies at Stanford, eventually achieving exits through three M&As and one Nasdaq IPO filing. Jin began his venture investment career in 2010 when he initiated the TEEC Angel Fund as North American chairman of the TEEC organization, later founding Tsingyuan Ventures with a focus on bridging multi-disciplinary expertise for breakthrough opportunities, especially in life science applications.