About
Caleb Chan was Head of Product and Founding Engineer at Silicon Valley Commerce, which achieved a nine-figure exit. He previously held product roles at Google and Salesforce, focusing on voice and AI agent technology.
Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published
- c•••@lance.livereveal75% confident
Founder at LanceYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Caleb went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Lance's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Caleb can intro founders to Lance's investors below.
Lance's investors · 3
Co-founders at Lance
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Gavin BrennenFounder
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Gatik TrivediFounder
Experience
- Lance (YC W26)CEO & Co-Foundercurrent2026 — present
- Silicon Valley CommerceHead of Product2023 — 2025San Francisco, CA
- Silicon Valley CommerceFounding Engineer2023
- SalesforceProduct2025
- GoogleProduct2024
- UC Santa BarbaraResearcher, PSTAT Lab2022Santa Barbara, CA
- Amazon FBA and FBMFBA2021 — 2022
- Amazon Publishing Network®Author2019 — 2021Orange County, California, United States
- Priya Bhat-Patel for City CouncilFull Stack Engineer2020 — 2021
- UC IrvineData Science Researcher2020 — 2021Irvine, California, United States
Skills & more
Product Management25MySQL21Python (Programming Language)13Microsoft Excel9Microsoft PowerPoint10Search Engine Optimization (SEO)11
From Caleb's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Caleb Chan?
- Caleb Chan was Head of Product and Founding Engineer at Silicon Valley Commerce, which achieved a nine-figure exit. He previously held product roles at Google and Salesforce, focusing on voice and AI agent technology.
- Where does Caleb Chan work?
- Caleb Chan is Founder of Lance.
- What companies did Caleb Chan found?
- Caleb Chan founded Lance.
- Where did Caleb Chan go to school?
- Caleb Chan studied at University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science ~ Dropped Out); University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business (Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management); Y Combinator.
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University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business mafia117
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Shared employers
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Also worked at UC Santa Barbara37
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