ACTAI Ventures

United States - New Castle, Delaware

• 10/11/2022
• Unknown
• $2,400,000

Co-founded by Bill Tai and Amanda Terry, ACTAI Unicorn Fund II invests primarily in pre-seed to series A stage, high growth companies that leverage purpose-driven technology to create societal benefit and digitization to bring efficiency and scale.

Bill Tai was the first investor in Zoom and early investor in Wish, Canva, Dapper Labs, and over 20 publicly traded companies. Amanda Terry has over 20 years experience in digital media business development (ex-Twitter) and co-invested with Bill for 3 years before starting this fund in 2021. Their LP base is a global community of founders, operators, and investors with deep domain expertise, diverse networks, and a desire to help innovative companies grow.

ACTAI Ventures focuses on companies in massive markets, with good market timing, and that are well-valued coming from the broader ACTAI Global (www.actai.global) community of Athletes, Conservationists, Technologists, Artists and Innovators, and the Extreme Tech Challenge (www.extremetechchallenge.com), the world's largest competition and ecosystem for tech for good aligned with the UN SDG goals, but not limited to investing in founders from those communities.

We are excited to partner with founders who are making a huge impact and provide them with the social and financial capital they need!

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Amanda TerryCo Founder

United States - ND

Amanda Terry is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer for Metagood which strives to build a better future for Web3 while doing good along the way. Through its first NFT project OnChainMonkey (www.onchainmonkey.com), Metagood has simultaneously created value for its community members and made real world impact. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.

She is Managing Partner of ACTAI Ventures, an early stage venture fund she co-founded with Bill Tai, for a global community of founders. She has been angel investing and co-investing with Bill since 2018 in over 10 companies before she started the fund.

Amanda has helped drive community for 501c3 ACTAI Global including producing and hosting their Fireside Chat Series and gathering their community during the World Economic Forum in partnership with Consensys and Nima Capital, after being a member of the community since 2013 on her first kite surfing trip in Cabarete!

She has over 20 years of digital media sales and business development leadership experience from Twitter, NBC, Zagat (acquired by Google), 5min (acquired by AOL), TARGUSinfo (acquired by Neustar,) and Acxiom (acquired by IPG.) She’s a frequent speaker at blockchain industry events including NFT NYC, NFT LA, Ethereal Summit, SXSW, and Vee Con. She has a BA from Princeton University in Public Policy and East Asian Studies and MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaterry/