Personal Venture Portfolio
A Treasure Trove of Seeding Trinkets.
April Swando Hu's portfolio of ventures across Asia and beyond — each one small enough to carry in a pocket, each one quietly growing.
April Swando Hu — founder, connector, and Chair of the Yale International Alliance — moves between Asia, Europe, and the Americas, guided by two inherited threads: a family legacy of education and human development, and a lineage of engineers who solve hard problems. This is her 10-year sprint toward 2027.
Act Now
Where help is needed most urgently
- 不忘初心 Film — fundraise for mother's 88th
- Swando Energy — commercial partners & investors
- Treasures Bowl — heritage finance & elder wellbeing
Running Ventures
Operational, open for collaboration
- Yale International Alliance
- NINEby9 — women's leadership
- Crazy Chicks — global gatherings
Legacy & Moonshots
The long game — seeds for the next decade
- Zigen Fund 滋根 — the origin
- theACE — Chinese IB curriculum
- + more seeds forming
Join the Sprint
Looking for co-founders & collaborators
I am ten years into a 2027 sprint. The goal: clear teams under each trinket, going beyond Asia. If any of these ventures resonate — as a co-founder, operator, partner, or investor — reach out.
Clean Energy Partners
Film Fundraising
Elder Wellbeing MVP
Chinese Curriculum Builders
Yale Alumni Network
Community Connectors
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