Peiyu Yu

PEIYU YU focuses her practice on providing strategic counseling to emerging and high-growth companies on matters spanning the entire corporate lifecycle, including formation, corporate governance, venture financings, and mergers and acquisitions. She also advises investors with diverse strategic goals, including venture capital funds, corporate venture capital arms of Fortune 100 companies, and sovereign wealth funds.

Peiyu works with companies and investors across all industries, including AI, energy tech, memory and storage, healthtech, biotech, fintech, property tech, industrial tech, consumer products, and SaaS.

Peiyu’s work has earned her recognition in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America for Mergers and Acquisitions Law in 2025 and 2026.

Investor Representations

• BMW i Ventures in several venture capital investments, including in Ampeco, the creator of an electric vehicle charging station software platform, and multiple investments in Our Next Energy, an energy storage and battery technology company.
• Khosla Ventures as the lead investor in several venture capital investments, including in:
  
  • Series A financing round of Rabbit Inc., an AI-native hardware company; and
  • Series Seed financing of Realta Fusion, Inc., a clean-tech and nuclear fusion energy startup.
• Jane Street in its investments in:
  
  • Antithesis, an autonomous software testing platform;
  • Etched, an AI hardware and semiconductor company;
  • X-Energy, an advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology company; and
  • Kraken, a leading global cryptocurrency platform.
• Roche in its investment in Freenome, a multiomics platform-based life sciences company, with aggregate proceeds from Roche and other investors in excess of US$840 million.
• GIC Pte. Ltd. in its investment in multi-day energy storage company Form Energy’s US$450 million Series E Preferred financing.
• United Airlines Ventures, as part of a consortium, in the US$25 million Series A financing for Viridos, Inc.
• Sequoia Capital Heritage Fund in connection with private fund investments and co-investment transactions.
• Ocean Avenue Capital Partners in connection with strategic co-investment transactions.
• Synchrony Financial in various strategic investments in emerging technology companies.

Company Representations

• Nous Research, an open-source artificial intelligence company, in its US$90 million Series B financing led by Robot Ventures at a US$1.5 billion valuation, with participation from NVIDIA, Microsoft, Samsung, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Menlo Ventures, and other investors.
• NuMat Technologies in various financing transactions.
• Prothena Corporation plc, a late-stage clinical biotechnology company, in its US$183.6 million follow-on equity offering.
• Outset Medical, a medical technology company, in its US$212 million secondary public offering.
• Radiant Biotherapeutics, a preclinical biotechnology company developing an antibody platform to deliver transformative therapies for patients facing life-changing disease, in its US$35 million Series A financing.
• Outbuild, a construction scheduling and planning software company, in its US$11 million Series A financing round.
• Salt Security, an API vulnerability and protection platform, in:
  
  • its US$140 million Series D financing, valuing the company at US$1.4 billion, led by Alphabet’s CapitalG and with participation from Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, S Capital VC, Advent International, Alkeon Capital, and DFJ Growth; and
  • its US$70 million Series C funding round, led by Advent, with participation from Alkeon Capital and DFJ Growth.
• ReCode Therapeutics in its US$50 million extension to its Series B financing, for a total of US$260 million in Series B funding.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Bluevine Inc., a fintech company providing digital banking solutions for small businesses, in its agreement to be acquired by Valley National Bancorp for approximately US$340 million.
• MIPS Holding, Inc., a leading designer, developer, and supplier of processor architectures for artificial intelligence applications, in its merger with an affiliate of GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS), a premier global semiconductor manufacturer.
• Life360 (Nasdaq: LIF) in its agreement to acquire Nativo, a leading advertising technology company that helps brands create and distribute engaging ad experiences across premium publisher sites.
• Tenyx, a Palo Alto-based startup and developer of AI-powered voice agents that create natural and engaging conversational experiences, in its sale to Salesforce.
• Shenzhen Longsys Electronics Co., Ltd., a semiconductor memory and storage enterprise, in its acquisition of the Brazilian subsidiaries of Penguin Solutions, Inc.
• WatchGuard Technologies in its buyout by Vector Capital.
• ServiceTitan, a leading software provider for the trades, in:
  
  • its acquisition of Aspire Software, a landscaping business management software provider; and
  • its acquisition of FieldRoutes, a cloud-based and mobile SaaS provider in the pest control and lawn care industry.
• Performance Investment Partners LLC in its acquisition, in partnership with Kingswood Capital Management LLC, of The Vitamin Shoppe from the bankrupt Franchise Group.

• Peiyu serves as the associate leader of the firm’s Inclusion Committee in the Palo Alto office.