Investing Profile

Laura Chau(98)

VCInvestor

General Partner at Canaan Partners

canaan.com/team/laura-chauNew York, New York

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Laura Chau's investing connections

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NewCo Network

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NewCo Network

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Stanford University Network

1222 CONNECTIONS

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Network

519 CONNECTIONS

Deloitte Network

425 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Canaan Partners General Partner

Investment Range

$250K - $20.0M

Sweet Spot

$10.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$800M

Laura Chau is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Consumer Internet (Series B)New York City Consumer Internet (Seed)

Laura Chau's Investments On Record (8)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Rylo	Series UnknownJun 2026$85M Series AJul 2024$11M	$130M
Co-investors: Bryan Schreier (Sequoia Capital), KJ Singh (Techstars), Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners)
Arcade	Series AMar 2025$25M	$91M
Co-investors: Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Lauren Stephanian (Pantera Capital), Jay Po (Bessemer Venture Partners), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Aditi Maliwal (Upfront Ventures), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Richard Ma (Quantstamp, Inc.), Chris Sang (CP Ventures), David Matthews (RevTech Ventures), Chris Shonk (R360), Adrian Stone (AngelCube), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Karlie Kloss (Oath), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brit Morin (Offline Ventures), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Jonathan Keidan (Torch Capital), April Underwood (Adverb Ventures), Marissa Mayer, Mathilde Collin, Jonathan Widawski, Jeffrey Wilke
Solvely.ai	SeedMay 2024
Sidechat	SeedJan 2023
Mosey	Series AAug 2022$18M	$18M
Clutch	Series BNov 2021$80M Series AMar 2021$16M	$250M
Co-investors: Stephen Chau (Sequoia Capital), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Chad Byers (Susa Ventures), Jeff Weinstein (FJ Labs), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Christian Bach (Intigral), Mark McLaughlin (Alkeon Capital), Janet Bannister (Staircase Ventures), Alex McIsaac (Northside Ventures), Andrew Black (BrandProject), Thiago Olson (EVE Atlas), Jason Finger (The Finger Group), Parker Treacy (Cobli), Neal Sáles-Griffin (Techstars), Heini Zachariassen (Vivino), David Helgason (Nordic Makers), Jacob Kerzner
Coterie	SeedMay 2021 Pre SeedFeb 2019$3M	$34M
Co-investors: Karlie Kloss (Oath), Alex Gurevich (Javelin Venture Partners), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), Yahya Mokhtarzada (500 Global), Jonathan Neman, Abe Burns
Ollie	SeedOct 2016$4M	$57M
Co-investors: David Shapiro (Alumni Ventures ), Chris Sklarin (Castor Ventures), Benjamin Sun (Primary Venture Partners), Brian Sack (TLV Partners), Dan Ciporin, Justin Mateen, Rich Miner

Laura Chau's Media (1)

The next great consumer companies won’t be exclusive clubs. They will be inclusive cults.

www.medium.com

most interested in

consumer tech

Laura Chau's Experience

Board Member Office of US Senator Daniel Patrick MoynihanPresent

Board Member Stealth Company (Vsevolod Leonov)Present

Channel Sales branchPresent

Board Member Stanford Center for Design ResearchPresent

Summer Researcher Robyn FrankelPresent

Board Member Robyn FrankelPresent

Board Member iCiDIGITALPresent

Summer Researcher NewCoPresent

Board Observer CargomaticPresent

Board Observer Beckon, Inc.Present

Board Observer CuyanaPresent

Board Member CoteriePresent

Board Member NewCoPresent

Board Member MoseyPresent

Board Member NagishPresent

Board Member Solvely.aiPresent

Consultant Deloitte ConsultingPresent

Channel Sales Branch MetricsPresent

Board Member ArcadePresent

Business Analyst DeloittePresent

Board Observer Cargomatic, Inc.Present

Board Observer ClusterHQPresent

Board Member Oakes Children's CenterPresent

Board Member Ollie PetsPresent

General Partner Canaan PartnersPresent

Board Member OlliePresent

Investor PartifulPresent

Board Member OpenArt AIPresent

Board Member UndisclosedPresent

Board Member ClutchPresent

Board Member Ollie Pets Full-timePresent

Board Member nate Full-timePresent

Principal Canaan PartnersPresent

Partner Canaan PartnersPresent

General Partner CanaanPresent

Business Strategy KonMari Media, Inc.2017 - 2018

Product Marketing Greenhouse Software2017 - 2017

Channel Sales Branch2017 - 2017

Consultant Deloitte2013 - 2014

Business Analyst Deloitte Consulting2011 - 2013

Summer Researcher Stanford Center for Design Research2009 - 2009

Marketing Intern Kabam2008 - 2008

Laura Chau's Education

Stanford University Bachelor of Science (BS) Management Science and Engineering

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Master of Business Administration - MBA

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