Charles Hudson is a Partner with SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Internet and mobile startups. He focuses on identifying investment opportunities in mobile infrastructure, mobile applications, and marketplaces. He is on the Board of Tulip and Kahuna and works closely with a number of SoftTech investments, including SmartShoot, Vungle, Kato, TakeLessons, TopHat, 8tracks, and Soldsie.

Prior to joining SoftTech, he was also the Co-Founder and CEO of Bionic Panda Games, an Android-focused mobile games startup based in San Francisco, CA. Previous to Bionic Panda, he worked in product and business development roles at Serious Business (acquired by Zynga), Gaia Interactive, Google, and IronPort Systems. He also spent time working with In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital group. He holds a B.A in Economics and Spanish from Stanford and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.