AME Cloud Ventures

AME Cloud Ventures is a venture fund led by Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!. The firm invests from seed through later stages in technology-heavy companies building infrastructure and value chains around data. Its investment interests span the data stack, including infrastructure, applications, mobile, and sensors, with a focus on companies that gather or create unique data.

AME Cloud Ventures backs entrepreneurs and provides founding teams with operational and business experience, access to mentors, and connections to international partners, particularly in China. The firm’s name, ‘AME’, is pronounced ‘ah-may’ and means ‘rain’ in Japanese. That name reflects the firm’s belief that accurate, actionable data will play a central role in the future economy.