Investing Profile

David Chao

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General Partner and Cofounder at DCM Ventures
dcm.com/en/team/David--ChaoMenlo Park, California
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University of California, Davis Network
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University of California, Davis Network
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Current Investing Position
DCM General Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $15.0M
Sweet Spot
$5.0M
Investments On Record
56
Current Fund Size
$4B

David Chao is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

David Chao's Investments On Record (31)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Eaze
Series DFeb 2020$35M
Series BSep 2017$27M
Series BOct 2016$13M
Series AApr 2015$10M
$87M
Co-investors: Kyle Lui (DCM), Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Fabrice Grinda (FJ Labs), Henry McNamara (Great Oaks Venture Capital), Karan Wadhera (Casa Verde Capital)
Grin Scooters
SeedSep 2018$20M
$27M
Co-investors: Ajay Chopra (Trinity Ventures), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Eric Reiner (Vine Ventures LP), Jordan Fudge (Sinai Ventures), Ariel Poler (Human Augmentation Syndicate), Martin Schrimpff
Zeuss Technologies
SeedAug 2018
Co-investors: Dave McClure (Practical Venture Capital), Kevin Lin
Stockwell
Series AFeb 2018$8M
$11M
Co-investors: Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Constance Freedman (Moderne Ventures)
Baletu
Series BSep 2017
TravelBank
Series BAug 2017$25M
$35M
Co-investors: Rich Wong (Accel), Patrick Kerins (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Kyle Lui (DCM)
Theta EdgeCloud
Series AAug 2017$10M
SeedAug 2016$6M
SeedMar 2016$4M
$36M
Co-investors: Ben Yu (Sierra Ventures), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Samuel Harrison (Blockchain.com Ventures), Dovey Wan (Primitive Ventures)
VeeR (Velocious)
Series AJun 2017$16M
SeedJun 2016$2M
$20M
Co-investors: Ben Yu (Sierra Ventures), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital)

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
Corporate Sales Rep RightWorks, now JDA Software2001 - 2001
Sr. Corporate Sales Rep TrueSAN2001 - 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