Ernestine Fu

Ernestine Fu is an American venture capital investor and author. Fu is a venture partner at Alsop Louie Partners. She closed her first deal in her first two months at the firm, and then was featured on the cover of Forbes in August 2011.[1][2][3][4] In 2011, she was the youngest entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.[5] She sold her first startup for over $1 million in 2014.[6] She also co-founded a mobile technology firm focused on bring apps to users outside of the app stores in 2016, Blackstorm Labs, which has raised $33.5 million in investment.[7][8][9][10][11][12] Blackstorm is known for their hit game EverWing, a 2016 Facebook Game of the Year on Facebook's Instant Games platform.[13][14][15][16]

Fu authored the book Civic Work, Civic Lessons with former Stanford Law School Dean Thomas Ehrlich.[17][18]

Fu earned her bachelor’s and master’s of science degrees from Stanford University.[19] She is also a Mensan.[20]

References

  1. ↑ Adams, Susan (May 13, 2011). "Names You Need to Know: Ernestine Fu". Forbes.
  2. ↑ Adams, Susan (August 3, 2011). "All-Star Student Entrepreneurs: Coed Venture Capitalist". Forbes.
  3. ↑ "Our Covers, Our Message". Forbes. 2012.
  4. ↑ Woo, Jacqueline (December 15, 2014). "'Print it, wear it, that's the way customers want it'". The Straits Times.
  5. ↑ "Forbes Ranks America's Top Colleges - Williams College Tops the List". Entertainment Close-Up. 8 August 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2017 – via HighBeam Research. (Subscription required (help)).
  6. ↑ Kosoff, Maya (22 October 2014). "It Only Took 2 Months For Silicon Valley's 'Youngest VC' To Sell Her Startup For More Than $1 Million". Business Insider. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  7. ↑ Lee, Wendy. "Move over, App Store: Startup looks for new way to distribute apps". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  8. ↑ "Are we heading for a post-app store future?". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  9. ↑ Lynley, Matthew. "Blackstorm raises $33.5M to help developers get their apps everywhere beyond the App Store". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  10. ↑ "Blackstorm Labs seizes the HTML5 instant games opportunity". VentureBeat. 2017-03-18. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  11. ↑ Lynley, Matthew. "Post-App Store developer platform Blackstorm launches a games studio". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  12. ↑ "GBR Interview: Blackstorm Labs’ Ernestine Fu Discusses Upgrades to EverWing with Gamebot and AI Chatbot on Facebook Messenger – Gaming Business Review". gamingbusinessreview.com. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  13. ↑ Lynley, Matthew. "Blackstorm Labs looks to bring the co-op experience to a Facebook Messenger game". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  14. ↑ "Blackstorm Labs on how game bots and rich gameplay features are evolving Facebook Instant Games". pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  15. ↑ "Facebook's 2016 Games of the Year - Facebook for Developers". Facebook for Developers. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  16. ↑ Lynley, Matthew. "Post-App Store developer platform Blackstorm’s first showcase instant games launch on Facebook". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  17. ↑ Musil, Caryn (Spring 2014). "Civic Work, Civic Lessons Intergenerational Reflections: An Interview with Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu". Change.
  18. ↑ "Civic Work, Civic Lessons: Two Generations Reflect on Public Service (SSIR)". ssir.org. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  19. ↑ http://www.alsop-louie.com/team/ernestine-fu/
  20. ↑ "Member spotlight on Ernestine Fu". Mensa.
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