Henry Huang

Investment Director

Investment Areas:

Computing, Connectivity, Industrial, Mobility

Henry Huang is an Investment Director with TDK Ventures, covering computing, connectivity, industrial and mobility.

Prior to joining TDK Ventures, he had extensive experience in the telecommunication industry, including various roles with AT&T, NextG Networks (acquired by Crown Castle), Tarana Wireless, 3TEN8, and TTS Wireless (acquired by AMDOC). His responsibilities covered R&D, engineering, product management, customer success, technical sales, marketing, and investment.

He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), both in Electrical Engineering and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In his free time, he loves to travel around the world with his wife and three children. He has backpacked in Tibet, hiked in Peru, and ran a marathon in Switzerland.

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Current & Upcoming Deep Explorations

Category: Industrial

Industrial Software for Factory Operation

Industrial software has a huge market size, but it has been traditionally hard for startups. If a company can crack it by creating a middle layer of factory Operating System and dominate the space, we believe it could generate venture type of returns.

Portfolio Companies Served

Analog Inference is building the most advanced line of AI inference accelerators ever seen using their novel in-memory compute technology.
Silicon Box is an advanced semiconductor integration startup, specializing in cutting-edge semiconductor integration services.
Board Observer
Verana Networks is building an innovative 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) solution for service providers that have licensed millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum.
XCOM exclusively licensed its wireless systems business, and transitioned several team members to GlobalStar.

Previous Deep Explorations

Category: Connectivity & Computing

Space-tech for IoT applications

Satellite connectivity has the potential to enable massive IoT applications that would otherwise be challenged to reach with the terrestrial networks. As the world becomes more connected, the demand for real time data is everywhere.
Category: Connectivity & Computing

Quantum Computing

Development of quantum computers marks a leap forward in computing capability, we are exploring the potential quantum computing to drive massive performance gains.
Category: Connectivity & Computing
Explorer: Henry Huang

Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Power Electronics

We are exploring the key for the next essential step towards an energy-efficient world lies in the use of these new wide bandgap power electronics materials that allow for greater power efficiency, smaller size, lighter weight, lower overall cost – or all of these together.
Category: Connectivity & Computing
Explorer: Henry Huang

AI Accelerator

This exploration provides learnings about the technology and market trend of AI accelerator in both cloud and edge applications.
Category: Connectivity & Computing
Explorer: Henry Huang

Open Radio Access Network

This exploration provides learnings over Open RAN which shows tremendous market potential and moves towards massive deployment, as it can reduce cost, improve performance and accelerate innovations.
Category: Mobility

Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Communication

This exploration provides learnings about Vehicle to Everything communication as it can improve driving safety, reduce air pollution, and increase traffic efficiency.
Category: Connectivity & Computing
Explorer: Henry Huang

5G mmWave RAN

This exploration provides learnings about 5G radio access network technologies and startup opportunities at millimeter wave band.
Category: Connectivity & Computing
Explorer: Henry Huang

Silicon-Photonic IC for Communication

This exploration provides learnings about photonic integrated circuits that use silicon as an optical medium for communication applications.
Category: Energy & Cleantech
Explorer: Henry Huang

AgTech Weeding Robotics

This exploration provides learnings about robotic technologies that aim to automate weeding in agriculture.
Category: Connectivity & Computing
Explorer: Henry Huang

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

This exploration provides learnings about the technology trend and search startup opportunity in Field-Programmable Gate Array.
Category: Industrial
Explorers: Henry Huang, Starry Wang

Blockchain in Supply Chain

This exploration provides learnings about the technology foundation of blockchain and search for its potential applications in the supply chain.
Category: Mobility
Explorers: Henry Huang, Starry Wang

Vehicular Cybersecurity

This exploration provides a high-level overview of startups developing vehicular cybersecurity technology or solutions.

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