Tess Hau

Active Investor

Investor in one of the Hottest NFT Blockchain Startup at Pareto.AI

Palo Alto, California

Tess Hau, Investor in one of the Hottest NFT Blockchain Startup at Pareto.AI is an active investor based in Palo Alto, California. This profile covers what Tess Hau backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Ms. Tess Hau is the Founder of Tess Ventures. Ms. Hau is an Angel Investor. She serves as Advisor at Ultrade. She is an investor and advisor to high performing startups, deep tech companies and extraordinary founders across the world. A respected leader and subject matter expert, she is a sought-after speaker, lecturer, and advisor on venture capital, startups, entrepreneurship, strategy, Southeast Asia expansion and growth. She has been both speaker and moderator on numerous prominent VC and entrepreneurship panels. She was featured on Thrive Global's list of "Top Women to Watch 2019". Among her many roles: Founder of venture fund Tess Ventures; Venture Partner at Spike Ventures, a venture capital fund for alumni of Stanford University; Co-founder of a stealth startup; and as a previous advisor to the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing, she was COO of GCBC Stanford Graduate School of Business. She was also appointed as Chief Ambassador by the Dean of Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She is a Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She had multiple successful investments and exits through various entities before founding Tess Ventures. Examples include fintech, virtual reality, personalized medicine, construction tech, marketing automation, blockchain technology and others. She is an internationally recognized champion of health issues, women's leadership, and diversity initiatives relating to gender and race. She is passionate about education, mentoring and developing women leaders, and connecting entrepreneurs across cultures. She served as Advisor at Saakuru.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage VentureSeed
Invests in: Artificial IntelligenceHealthcare & BiotechSaaS & EnterpriseEdTechMedia & ContentMarketing & AdTech
Location: Palo Alto, California
Typical check: $375K
Past investments: 2

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