Sunflower Capital

Sunflower Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Liu Jiang, a former partner at Sequoia Capital, and headquartered in West Hollywood, California. The firm writes first checks to founders at the pre-seed and seed stages — often before a product exists — targeting B2B companies building foundational infrastructure for modern enterprises, critical industries, and the physical world. Investment themes span enterprise infrastructure, AI-native software, B2B SaaS, defense and hardware, and vertical-specific tooling. Sunflower takes a high-conviction, low-volume approach, deploying 100% of each fund as initial checks with no capital held in reserve for follow-ons. Typical check sizes are reported at $1M–$3M. The firm's second fund (Fund II) closed in April 2025 at $150 million, raised in approximately one month from roughly 20 institutional LPs including CalSTRS (via Sapphire Partners), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Industry Ventures, bringing combined fund size to approximately $250 million. The three-person team (Liu Jiang, Max Wang, Mo Punjwani) is reachable via the contact form on the firm's website.