WELCOME TO SILICON VALLEY

We’re not just consultants, we’re your second office

Poppyseed is a Silicon Valley-style consulting firm.

We are here to complement your team with a combined 40+ years of Silicon Valley and Asia entrepreneurial experience.

Albert Chu
Managing Partner
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Albert’s Silicon Valley career includes management positions at Apple, AT&T, PalmSource and ACCESS, where he launched dozens of products and services.

Albert is a key advisor at UC Berkeley's SkyDeck accelerator and for NEDO Silicon Valley office, a Fellow at Singapore University of Social Sciences, and regularly is invited as a speaker on innovation leadership. He is an active advisor, investor and board member for a portfolio of U.S. and Asia-based startups.

Kevin Flannery
Managing Partner
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Kevin is an entrepreneur, millennial, and surfer. He excels in cross-cultural business development activities where he translates strategy into implementation.

After spending 2+ years in Shanghai, China, Kevin moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Since arriving in Silicon Valley, Albert and Kevin have worked together to lead business strategy in the U.S. for multiple Asian startups, corporations, and government institutions.

Poppyseed partners with startups, corporations and government institutions from Asia.

We work very closely with your team to create opportunity in the United States.

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STARTUP

Consider Poppyseed to be your U.S. team. Together, we tackle business & market development, industry partnerships, fundraising, customer discovery, pilot opportunities, user experience & design, and go-to-market messaging — in Silicon Valley and beyond.

CorporatE + Government

We work together to build your custom Silicon Valley ecosystem. Poppyseed takes a hands-on approach with our corporate and government partners. We incorporate startup culture into your innovation efforts, as we team up to fully participate in the diverse business and academic landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Contact

Poppyseed typically signs on new partners via referral. However, we are always happy to make a new friend. Please feel free to email us at: hello@poppyseed.co