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

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. 6x increase in valuation since investment.

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Dili (YC S23)

Investment due diligence automation platform by using generative AI.

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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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Overworld

Overworld is building world models - AI systems that understand and generate interactive environments.

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Antigen

AI adversary for the enterprise

Co-invested with Lightspeed

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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
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Joe Tai

(Strategic Partner)
  • Co-founder, advisor, executive, and board member at: (Eyezense Inc., Branes.Ai., Power8 Tech Inc. ...)
  • Attorney-at-Law (US)
  • Ph.D. (Chemistry) from UC Davis, J.D. from Golden Gate University, School of Law