Where does Dannie Chu work?

Dannie Chu is Founder of Foodoro and Sr Director, Head of Growth Engineering at Bison Trails and Founder at Makersplace.

What companies did Dannie Chu found?

Dannie Chu founded Foodoro, Makersplace.

Where did Dannie Chu go to school?

Dannie Chu studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Software Engineering).

Dannie Chu

InvestorFounder

Sr Director, Head of Growth Engineering at Bison Trails · Founder at Makersplace · Founder at Foodoro

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedFoodoro · YC Makersplace

Find your path to Dannie

414 people in our graph share verified history with Dannie — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Simon CantunlockedDannie: together at Coinbase (2025–2026)

×2Dannie: together at University of Waterloo

×3Dannie: together at Pinterest

×6Dannie: together at Coinbase

About

Dannie Chu founded Foodoro (part of Y Combinator's 2009 class) and previously worked at Pinterest. He is currently founder and chairman of MakersPlace.

Founder at Makersplace

Intro paths

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In turn, Dannie can intro founders to Makersplace's investors below.

Makersplace's investors · 5

Bessemer Venture PartnersRedwood City · $5M – $100M checks Coinbase VenturesStamford · $100K – $10M checks Draft Ventures LlcSan Francisco Justin “3LAU” Blau Pantera CapitalSan Francisco · $5M – $100M checks

Founder at Foodoro YC W09

Intro paths

Dannie went through Y Combinator (Winter 2009) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Dannie can intro founders to Foodoro's investors below.

Foodoro's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2009

Experience

CoinbaseSr Director, Head of Growth Engineeringcurrent2025 — present
MakersPlaceExecutive Chairman, Co-Founder2022 — 2025
MakersPlaceCEO and Co-Founder2018 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
PinterestHead of Activation Engineering (Growth)2015 — 2018
PinterestHead of Growth Engineering2013 — 2015
PinterestEngineering Lead2012 — 2013
Foodoro, IncCo-Founder2008 — 2012San Francisco, CA
Barclays Global InvestorsSoftware Development Engineer2007 — 2009
Microsoft CorporationSoftware Development Engineer / Test (Intern)2006
SybaseJava Software Developer (Intern)2005 — 2006

Skills & more

Java5Python7Django2PHP5JavaScript2CSS2MySQL3PostgreSQLLinux1ApacheMemcached

From Dannie's professional profile.

Colleagues at Bison Trails

Aklil Ibssa

Investor at Coinbase Ventures

Alesia Haas

CFO at Coinbase Ventures

Alfonso Bauzá de Mirabó Vidal

Co-Founder & COO at Vega

Antonio Garcia-Martinez

Founder/CEO at AdGrok

Brandon Myint

Investor at Coinbase Ventures

Brian Armstrong

Co-founder & CEO of Coinbase

Brian Foster

Director, Coinbase Prime & Coinbase Ventures at Coinbase Ventures

Catherine Ferdon

Angel at First Round Capital

Frequently asked questions

Who is Dannie Chu?: Dannie Chu founded Foodoro (part of Y Combinator's 2009 class) and previously worked at Pinterest. He is currently founder and chairman of MakersPlace.
Where does Dannie Chu work?: Dannie Chu is Founder of Foodoro and Sr Director, Head of Growth Engineering at Bison Trails and Founder at Makersplace.
What companies did Dannie Chu found?: Dannie Chu founded Foodoro, Makersplace.
Where did Dannie Chu go to school?: Dannie Chu studied at University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Software Engineering).