Investing Profile

David Chao

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General Partner and Cofounder at DCM Ventures

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Current Investing Position
DCM General Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $15.0M
Sweet Spot
$5.0M
Investments On Record
45
Current Fund Size
$4B

David Chao is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

David Chao's Investments On Record (25)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Eaze
Series DFeb 2020$35M
Series BSep 2017$27M
Series BOct 2016$13M
Series AApr 2015$10M
$87M
Co-investors: Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Kyle Lui (DCM), Henry McNamara (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Karan Wadhera (Casa Verde Capital), Stefano Bernardi (Atomico)
Grin Scooters
Seed RoundSep 2018$20M
$27M
Co-investors: Ajay Chopra (Trinity Ventures), John Lin (F-Prime Capital Partners), Ariel Poler (Human Augmentation Syndicate), Jordan Fudge (Sinai Ventures), Eric Reiner (Vine Ventures LP)
Zeuss Technologies
Seed RoundAug 2018
Co-investors: Dave McClure (Practical Venture Capital)
Stockwell
Series AFeb 2018$7.5M
$10M
Co-investors: Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures)
Baletu
Series BSep 2017
TravelBank
Series BAug 2017$25M
$35M
Co-investors: Rich Wong (Accel), Patrick Kerins (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), David Mort (Propel Venture Partners), Jay Reinemann (Propel Venture Partners)
THETA.tv
Series AAug 2017$9.8M
Seed RoundAug 2016$6.2M
$36M
Co-investors: Ben Yu (Sierra Ventures), Ajay Singh (01 Ventures), Samuel Harrison (Blockchain.com Ventures), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital)
VeeR (Velocious)
Series AJun 2017$16M
$18M
Co-investors: Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital), Ben Yu (Sierra Ventures)

David Chao's Experience

Sr. Director of Sales: US Mid-Market BirdEye2017 - Present
Sales Director: Americas Dimension Data2012 - 2017
Country Manager: Canada Sales Operation (CSG) WebEx2011 - 2012
Manager: US SLED Sales (Collaboration Software Group) WebEx2010 - 2011
Manager: North America Sales (Collaboration Software Group) WebEx2008 - 2010
Regional Manager (Collaboration Software Group) Cisco/WebEx2004 - 2008
Account Executive Silicon Energy, now Itron Inc2002 - 2004
Sr. Corporate Sales Rep TrueSAN2001 - 2001
Corporate Sales Rep RightWorks, now JDA Software2001 - 2001
Account Manager CyberSource, now VISA1999 - 2001

David Chao's Education

Cisco Advanced Management Series (CAMS) Leadership and Management
Cisco Management Series (CMS) Leadership and Management
University of California, Davis Executive Program (Executive Leadership)
University of California, Davis B.S. Biological Psychology
Mountain View High School