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East Sunshine Ventures

East Sunshine Ventures (“ESV”) is a fintech/B2B SaaS, AI focused early stage (seed and pre-seed) venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. We are aiming to leverage our founders and accelerators network in Silicon Valley to source the most innovative AI and SaaS technology for global financial institutions.

Investment Highlights

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Openpipe (YC S23)

Train faster, cheaper models on production data. Raised $6.7MM seed round with co-investors from Open AI.

Acquired by Coreweave (Sep 2025)

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Mass Finance

Legal and financial operating system for corporations. Led by Stripe co-founder. Achieved 1mm ARR within a year. 6x increase in valuation since investment.

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OpenAI

Market leading large language models. 6x increase in valuation since investment.

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Dili (YC S23)

Investment due diligence automation platform by using generative AI. 1.5MM ARR and turned profitable within 2 years

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Generation Lab

Harvard medicine/UC Berkeley lab/professor and ex-unicorn founder founded Longevity startup. Scaled 10x in valuation within one year since investment was made.

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Wayfarer Labs

Open science world models that run on consumer hardware. From mobile phones to gaming PCs, experience state-of-the-art AI models at blazing speeds.

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Claybird

Claybird makes studio-quality video ads in under 72 hours for brands like Coca-Cola, Walmart, Eight Sleep, Delve, and Mercor.

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Our Team

Sunny Zhang

(Founder/ Managing Partner)
  • Cross border investor in AI and fintech/SaaS with track records
  • Ex-Goldman Sachs, Citi and HSBC in Japan and the US.
  • Master in Economics from top private university in Japan

Sanish Mondkar

(Strategic Partner)
  • Previous chief of product at Ariba Network/SAP (Ariba Network was sold $4bn to SAP in 2012.
  • CEO, founder for Legion Technologies
  • Board member at SirionLabs
  • Angel investor for multiple B2B SaaS startups with exits
  • Master in Computer Science from Cornell University

Michael Suswal

(Strategic Partner)
  • COO and Co-founder at Standard AI (YC S17, Unicorn)
  • Angel investor/LP for multiple startups and VC funds

Jordan Fisher

(Strategic Partner)
  • Leadership at Anthropic
  • CEO and Co-founder at Standard AI (YC S17, Unicorn)
  • PHD in Math from UC Santa Barbara

Steve Suarez

(Venture Partner)
  • Previously Head of global innovation group at HSBC
  • Advisor/Board Member for multiple Fintech startups, Bane Consulting and Mitsubishi Corporation

Raeez Lorgat

(Strategic Partner/Portfolio Company CEO)
  • Cofounded Stripe with Patrick and John Collison, which now has a $60 billion market cap
  • Founder and CEO of Mass, an AI-powered financial technology company
  • Sits on the board of an entrepreneurship community alongside Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix

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