Investing Profile

David Chen(2)

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Early stage investor
San Francisco, California
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Harvard University Network
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Current Investing Position
Investor
Investment Range
$10K - $50K
Sweet Spot
$25K
Investments On Record
9

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David Chen's Investments On Record (5)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Guardant Health
Series EMay 2017$360M
Series DJan 2016$100M
Series CFeb 2015$50M
$550M
Co-investors: Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Pejman Nozad (Pear VC), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Matthew Rizzo (OrbiMed), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Ling Wong (Highbury Group), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Kyle Kurpinski (Tencent Holdings), Chris Schaepe, Farzad Nazem, Laszlo Bock
Evariant
Series CMay 2016
Series CNov 2015$42M
Series BMay 2014$18M
$60M
Co-investors: Chris Schaepe
Clever
Series BDec 2014$30M
$43M
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Mike Maples (Floodgate), Bryan Schreier (Sequoia Capital), Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Clint Korver (Ulu Ventures), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), Yuri Milner (DST Global), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Ben Parr (Theory Forge VC), Sam Altman
Acupera, Inc.
Series AAug 2014$4M
$4M
Elementum
Series BFeb 2014$50M
$67M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Dave Duffield (Workday), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Mike McNamara, Aaron Levie, Farzad Nazem, Chris Schaepe

David Chen's Experience

Founding Partner Protoscale Capital2017 - Present
Early stage investor Working on Something New2017 - Present
Early Stage Investor Working on Something NewPresent
Engineering AdmobPresent
Co-founder, VP Product IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Engineering IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Partner Lightspeed Venture Partners2012 - 2017
Product Manager Facebook2011 - 2012
Co-founder, VP Product AdMob2009 - 2011
Co-founder, VP Product Triangulate2009 - 2011
PhD Harvard University2003 - 2009
Summer Associate McKinsey & Company2008 - 2008
Engineering AdMob2007 - 2008
Product Management Digital Chocolate2006 - 2006

David Chen's Education

Harvard University PhD Science, Technology & Management
Harvard University doctorates, doctor of philosophy management
Harvard University BA/MS Computer Science
Harvard University master of science, masters, bachelors, bachelor of arts computer science