Investing Profile

Chi-Hua Chien

VCInvestorFounderAngel

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Goodwater Capital

goodwatercap.comPalo Alto, California

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Stanford University Network

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Current Investing Position

Goodwater Capital Managing Partner

Investment Range

$500K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$2.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$1B

Chi-Hua Chien is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Chi-Hua Chien's Investments On Record (27)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Stash	Series HMay 2025$150M Convertible NoteOct 2023$40M Series GFeb 2021$130M Series FApr 2020$110M Series EMar 2019$73M Series DFeb 2018$38M Series CJul 2017$40M Series BDec 2016$25M Series AAug 2016$9M SeedFeb 2016$3M	$610M
Co-investors: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures), Aviad Eyal (Entrée Capital Ventures), Edward Suh (Alpine Ventures), James Fitzgerald (Valar Ventures), Andrew McCormack (Valar Ventures), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund)
Yope	SeedFeb 2025$5M	$19M
Co-investors: Yury Mazanik (Zorachka Inc.), Ihar Mahaniok (Geek Ventures), Pär-Jörgen Pärson (Northzone), Vital Laptenok (Geek Ventures)
Howbout	Series AAug 2024$8M	$11M
Co-investors: Alvaro Alvarez del Rio (Initialized Capital), Sameer Singh (Speedinvest), Pablo Morenés (Boost Capital Partners), Timothy Mills (ACF Investors), Desigan Chinniah (Mozilla Ventures), Jag Singh (Singh Capital Partners), Alex Macdonald (Speedinvest), Sam Fennell (ACF Investors)
Stori	Series UnknownAug 2024$110M Series CNov 2021$130M	$320M
Co-investors: Alex Taussig (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Alex Tran (General Catalyst), Yi (Charlie) Cao (Source Code Capital), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), William (Penglan) Zhao (Bertelsmann Asia Investments (BAI)), Mercedes Bent (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout)
Monzo	Series HFeb 2022$580M Series GFeb 2021$69M Series GDec 2020$80M Series GJun 2020$82M Series FJun 2019$140M Series EOct 2018$110M Series DApr 2017$89M	$1.8B £2M
Co-investors: Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital), Alex Tran (General Catalyst), Tom Hulme (GV (Google Ventures)), Gene Frantz (CapitalG), Klaus Nyengaard (Nordic Makers), Sajid Sabir (Private Investments), Matteo Gamba (CallPad), David Mytton (Seedcamp), Reece Chowdhry (Concept Ventures), Kingsley Advani (Tribe-V Venture Capital), Henrik Wetter Sanchez (Playfair Capital), Siddharth Singhal (trilitech), Jeremy Yap (Xtripe Angels), Edward Suh (Alpine Ventures), Sonali De Rycker (Accel-KKR), John Locke (Accel-KKR), David Haywood Smith (SportPursuit)
Facily	Series DDec 2021$140M	$500M
Co-investors: Turner Novak (Banana Capital), Hans Tung (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Linda Guo (Glade Brook Capital Partners), Jonathan Whittle (Quona Capital), Rafa de la Guia (Quona Capital)
Jerry	Series CAug 2021$75M	$220M
Co-investors: Rafi Syed (Bowery Capital), Josh Buckley (Buckley Ventures), Joe Montana (Liquid 2 Ventures), Jon McNeill (Goodwater Capital), Jay Vijayan (Multiple startups and well known brands), Jonathan Weiner (Oak HC/FT), Larry Chu (Stealth Company (Omid E. Izadjou)), Michael Vaughan (Vera Equity), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Dan Bragiel (Bragiel Brothers), Paul Bragiel (Bragiel Brothers), David Shen (LaunchCapital), Alireza Masrour (Plug and Play Tech Center), Brandon Krieg
IRL	Series CJun 2021$170M Series BSep 2020$16M Series AJun 2019$8M	$200M
Co-investors: Mike Maples (Floodgate), Sunil Paul (SpringTime Ventures), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Mark Pincus

Chi-Hua Chien's Experience

Growth Stage Investor & Board Member Fever2022 - Present

Early Stage Investor & Board Advisor Monzo Bank2017 - Present

Early Stage Investor & Board Member Dosh2017 - Present

Early Stage Investor & Board Advisor Photomath2017 - Present

Early Stage Investor & Board Member Weee!2016 - Present

Early Stage Investor & Advisor TikTok2016 - Present

Early Stage Investor & Board Member Stash2016 - Present

Co-Founder & Managing Partner Goodwater Capital2014 - Present

Board Member charity: water2013 - Present

Venture Growth Stage Investor & Advisor Spotify2011 - Present

Venture Growth Stage Investor Twitter2010 - Present

Early Stage Investor & Board Advisor Chegg Inc.2008 - Present

Series A Investor Facebook2005 - Present

Venture Growth Stage Investor XPresent

Early Stage Investor & Board Advisor MonzoPresent

General Partner Kleiner PerkinsPresent

Director of Marketing, Interim CFO, Office of the President Top-PatentsPresent

Associate, Venture Advisor AccelPresent

Early Stage Investor & Board Advisor GooglePresent

Board of Trustees Castilleja SchoolPresent

Director of Marketing, Interim CFO, Office of the President Coremetrics, Inc.Present

General Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers2007 - 2014

Associate, Venture Advisor Accel Partners2002 - 2007

Corporate Development Google2005 - 2005

Director of Marketing, Interim CFO, Office of the President Coremetrics2001 - 2004

Chi-Hua Chien's Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA 2006

Stanford University MS Industrial Engineering

Stanford University BS Industrial Engineering

Stanford University AB Economics

Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA, 2006 2006

Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA 2006

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