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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
10

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David Chen's Investments On Record (6)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Contrario
SeedMay 2026$2M
$2.5M
Co-investors: Harj Taggar (Y Combinator)
Guardant Health
Series EMay 2017$360M
Series DJan 2016$100M
Series CFeb 2015$50M
$550M
Co-investors: Pejman Nozad (Pear VC), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Matthew Rizzo (OrbiMed), Ling Wong (Highbury Group), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Kyle Kurpinski (Tencent Holdings), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Bobby Yazdani (Cota Capital), Frank Malek, Farzad Nazem, Chris Schaepe, 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: Bryan Schreier (Sequoia Capital), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Mike Maples (Floodgate), Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital), Mitchell Kapor (Kapor Capital), Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), Clint Korver (Ulu Ventures), Miriam Rivera (Ulu Ventures), Deborah Quazzo (GSV Acceleration), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Ben Parr (Theory Forge Ventures), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), John Katzman (2U), Matt Macinnis (Various), Yuri Milner (DST Global), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Sam Altman, Aayush Phumbhra, Paul Graham
Acupera, Inc.
Series AAug 2014$4M
$4M
Elementum
Series BFeb 2014$50M
$67M
Co-investors: Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Mike McNamara (Eclipse Ventures), Dave Duffield (Workday), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Aaron Levie, Farzad Nazem, Chris Schaepe

David Chen's Experience

Founding Partner Protoscale Capital2017 - Present
Early stage investor Working on Something New2017 - Present
Engineering IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Co-founder, VP Product IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent
Engineering AdmobPresent
Early Stage Investor Working on Something NewPresent
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

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