Investing Profile

Laura Chau(97)

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General Partner at Canaan Partners
canaan.com/team/laura-chauNew York, New York
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20 Investors

Connected to Morgan Beller, Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), and 17 other investors on Signal.

Networks Laura is a member of
NewCo Network
1599 CONNECTIONS
NewCo Network
1599 CONNECTIONS
Stanford University Network
925 CONNECTIONS
Stanford University Graduate School of Business Network
423 CONNECTIONS
Robyn Frankel Network
351 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Canaan Partners General Partner
Investment Range
$250K - $20.0M
Sweet Spot
$10.0M
Investments On Record
11
Current Fund Size
$800M

Laura Chau is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Laura Chau's Investments On Record (8)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal 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), Lauren Stephanian (Pantera Capital), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), April Underwood (Obvious 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 (ATX Venture Partners), Adrian Stone (AngelCube), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Jay Po (Stage 2 Capital), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Karlie Kloss (Oath), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brit Morin (Offline Ventures), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Jonathan Keidan (Torch Capital), Marissa Mayer, Jonathan Widawski, Jeffrey Wilke, Mathilde Collin
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: Chad Byers (Susa Ventures), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Jeff Weinstein (FJ Labs), Stephen Chau (Sequoia Capital), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Neal Sáles-Griffin (Techstars), Heini Zachariassen (Vivino), David Helgason (foobar.vc), 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, Christian Bach, Jacob Kerzner
Coterie
SeedMay 2021
Pre SeedFeb 2019$3M
$34M
Co-investors: Karlie Kloss (Oath), Alex Gurevich (Javelin Venture Partners), Stephanie Palmeri (NextView Ventures), Abe Burns, Jonathan Neman, Yahya Mokhtarzada
Ollie
SeedOct 2016$4M
$57M
Co-investors: David Shapiro (Alumni Ventures ), Chris Sklarin (Castor Ventures), Benjamin Sun (Primary Venture Partners), Brian Sack (TLV Partners), Rich Miner, Dan Ciporin, Justin Mateen

most interested in

consumer tech

Laura Chau's Experience

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