Sue Xu

Dr. Sue Xu is Managing Partner at Amino Capital, having joined the firm in 2012. She was the founding CEO of CandyHouse and CyteSi, both Stanford lab spin-offs. Since 2012, Sue has been actively involved in seed and Series A funding rounds, contributing to the success of around 20 unicorns and over 45 companies valued at more than $100 million. These include Chime, Rippling, Grail (acquired by Illumina), Webflow, Weee, DFINITY, Replit, Oasis Labs, OmiseGo, Turing, Wyze, GetAccept, Guesty, Instawork, Wetravel, StarRocks, Karbon Card, Unbabel, and WriteSonic.

Sue has also addressed the United Nations during UNGA in 2024 on the role of AI in combating human trafficking and promoting the welfare of women and children. Her entrepreneurial journey began as the founding scientist of GlycoMira, and she has been involved in multiple lab spin-offs during her undergraduate and Ph.D. studies. Sue holds three patents, has authored over 20 journal articles, and was previously a medical researcher at Stanford University.

Her investment focus spans data moats, network effects, and domain-agnostic opportunities. She has successfully guided startups from inception to unicorn status across sectors such as Generative AI, Consumer, SaaS, and Frontier tech.

Sue has been featured on the Harvard HBS Women in VC Podcast and has guest lectured at Cornell’s MBA program on “Demystifying Big Data and FinTech.” She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong for “Global Wealth Management” and has lectured at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business MBA program.