Walter Liu
Biography
Walter Liu is a Principal at Applied Ventures. As a passionate investor and value creator for his entire career, Walter has led both strategic and financial venture investments for multi-international technology corporations since 2016. His venture capital investments have spanned across AI, semiconductors, cloud, mobile, automotive, IoT and enterprise software. Before joining Applied Ventures, Walter was the Head of US investment at MediaTek Capital. Prior to transitioning into venture capital, Walter was a senior strategic marketing manager at Qualcomm and a wireless product manager at Huawei and Nokia. He also has seven years of ASIC application and system engineering experience at Qualcomm, Motorola and LCC International, where he designed AT&T’s 3G network in Los Angeles and supported base station OEMs to deploy 3G networks around the world. Walter has an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from Cornell University and an M.S. in electrical engineering from UCLA.
Company Profile
Applied Ventures
Applied Ventures, LLC, is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMAT). Applied Materials is the global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. For more than a decade, Applied Ventures has invested in startups that are pioneering innovations in smartphones, augmented and virtual reality, AI, driverless cars, big data, life sciences, 3D printing, robotics, cleantech, and advanced materials. Applied Ventures is stage agnostic and invests up to $100M per year globally. We have invested in over 90 companies across 18 countries.