# HYPER Ventures

> HYPER Ventures is a San Francisco venture investor founded in 2018 and led by founder and managing partner Kai Sun. Sun describes it as an angel syndicate focused on early-stage AI, infrastructure and B2B software; it announced 13 investments in Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch, including companies serving legal, logistics and infrastructure workflows.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Kai Sun (Founder and Managing Partner)
- **Products:** Early-stage startup investing, Portfolio introductions, Investor deal-sharing community
- **Notable:** Announced investments in 13 companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch., Portfolio founders Thomas Laporte and Ingo Boegemann publicly acknowledged HYPER’s backing in comments on Sun’s announcement.

## Products & services

- **Early-stage startup investing** — Founder-described angel syndicate investing in pre-seed and seed AI, tooling, infrastructure and SaaS startups.
- **Portfolio introductions** — Sun publicly solicited introductions to potential customers, partners and investors for the announced YC S23 portfolio.
- **Investor deal-sharing community** — Sun described an invitation-only Slack group for institutional VC investors sharing AI and enterprise B2B SaaS deals in which they had invested.

## Achievements

- Announced investments in 13 companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch.
- Portfolio founders Thomas Laporte and Ingo Boegemann publicly acknowledged HYPER’s backing in comments on Sun’s announcement.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Research check: the firm’s website continues to present its broad AI investment mission; this is an observation date, not a dated company announcement.
- **2026-07** — Portfolio context: YC’s Dili profile lists a July 2026 financing news item and currently describes construction compliance; HYPER’s participation in that later round is not established.
- **2025-02** — Portfolio context: Reworkd’s website carries a notice stating that its product would sunset on February 6, 2025; the reason and investment outcome are not established.

## Links

- Website: https://www.hyperventures.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hypervc/

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Last updated: 2026-10-27