Hans Tung
Hans Tung is a Managing Partner at GGV Capital, focusing on early-stage investments across the global digital economy ecosystem. He is consistently recognized among the top venture capital investors in the world, having been named to the Forbes Midas list 10 consecutive years from 2013-2022, most recently ranking #6. He has also been named to the New York Times/CB Insights Top 100 Venture Capitalists list four times from 2016-2019, most recently at #18, and recognized among the Top 100 Asian Americans by Gold House in 2018-2020. Hans oversees the GGV’s DE&I initiatives, and he is also the co-host of the popular podcast, “Evolving for the Next Billion” on entrepreneurship in the U.S., China, India, SE Asia, and Latin America.
His portfolio includes 18 unicorns, many of them invested at an early stage, now valued at more than $1 billion. The public portfolio includes Affirm, Airbnb, Coinbase, Peloton, Poshmark, Slack, Wish and Xiaomi, and the private unicorn portfolio includes ByteDance, Bowery Farming, Divvy Homes, Frubana, Function of Beauty, Ibotta, Loggi, OfferUp, Rupeek, StockX, Udaan, Vedantu, and Xiaohongshu.
Hans’ global portfolio at GGV spans six cities across the U.S. as well as three continents:
Foodtech: Bowery Farming, Frubana, Gro Intelligence, Grubmarket, Loggi, Odeko, Shelf Engine
Communication/Social: Chief, Fishbowl, Minerva, musical.ly/ByteDance, Otter.ai, Slack, Snappy, TheMighty, Valence, Xiaohongshu
Fintech: Affirm, Divvy Homes, IDwall, Karat, Rupeek, Stori, Turtlemint
Fitness & Digital Health: K Health, Peloton
Edtech: Labster, Vedantu
B2B2C/SMBTech: Khatabook, Udaan
E-commerce: Airbnb, Function of Beauty, Lively, OfferUp, Poshmark, StockX, Winky Lux, Wish, Yami
Hans was an early investor and former board member of Xiaomi—most recently valued at $78 billion—and musical.ly, which was acquired by ByteDance for around $900 million in 2017. He has actively worked with Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk on Airbnb’s China strategy, and helped broker Uber co-founder Garrett Camp’s first meeting with Didi Chuxing in 2013.
Born in Taiwan, Hans grew up in Los Angeles and attended Stanford University, graduating with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. In 2005, as an Asian American, he was among the first Silicon Valley VCs to move to China full time, spending eight years investing in the fastest-changing tech landscape in the world before returning to Silicon Valley in 2013 to join GGV Capital to focus on globally-minded founders in the Americas and Asia.