Eric Chen
InvestorPartner at OVO Fund Β· Venture Advisor, Member of Investment Advisory Committee at Think+ Ventures Management, Llc
San Francisco Bay Area
About
Founding partner of Ovo Fund, an early seed investor in companies like Wish, Addepar, PayJoy, and Signifyd. Previously a partner at WI Harper and co-founder of TinyPrints (acquired by Shutterfly).
Experience
- OVO FundPartnercurrent2014 β presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Equilibrium Real Estate InvestmentSpecial Limited Partnercurrent2009 β presentWashington D.C. Metro Area
- WI HarperVenture Partner2010 β 2014
- WI HarperPartner2005 β 2010San Francisco
- Uj VenturesFounder2011 β 2013Palo Alto
- Tiny PrintsCo-Founder / Head Cheerleader2004 β 2006Menlo Park, CA
- E2openDirector, Asia Business Development2000 β 2004
- Level 3 CommunicationsSummer Intern, New Ventures1999
- Salomon BrothersAnalyst1995 β 1998
Education
- Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMBA, Business Administration1998 β 2000
- Stanford UniversityBS, Industrial Engineering1991 β 1995
Skills & more
Strategy18Management9Start-ups43Venture Capital99Business Development62Entrepreneurship76Strategic Partnerships6Business Strategy23E-commerce17Investments26Mergers & Acquisitions11Corporate Development6
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Angel InvestingCorporate FinanceLanguages English Β· Mandarin
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Same school
Also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business1,147
Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberPeter FentonGeneral Partner at BenchmarkSteve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockKatherine BoyleGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (American Dynamism)Hunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at Homebrew
+ 1,141 more
Also attended Stanford University1,575
Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockDavid SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia Capital
+ 1,569 more
Shared employers
Also worked at WI Harper14
Jason LinCo-founder and General Partner at Lifelike CapitalPeter LiuChairman at WI Harper GroupCharles WuSenior Partner at WI Harper GroupSean PengSenior Partner at WI Harper GroupWinnie HsuPartner at WI Harper GroupWilson WuManaging Partner at WI Harper Group
+ 8 more
Also worked at Tiny Prints2
Also worked at E2open4
Also worked at Level 3 Communications12
Karim FarisInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Marcie VuPartner at GreycroftJonathan HeiligerGeneral Partner at Vertex VenturesAnshu AgarwalGeneral Partner at ConvergeJody ShepherdCo-Founder and Managing Director at Service Provider CapitalKaiti DelaneyPrincipal at Ten Eleven
+ 6 more
Colleagues at OVO Fund
Adam Kaufman
Senior Advisor at OVO Fund
Beyang Liu
B2B SaaS / Dev Tooling at OVO Fund
Dr. Rene Caissie
Healthcare at OVO Fund
Dr. Zhengyuan Zhou
Applied AI at OVO Fund
Gianfranco Filice
Partner at OVO Fund
Ilse Calderon
Fintech / Consumer at OVO Fund
Jeff Davis
Generalist at OVO Fund
Jiggs Davis
Partner Emeritus at OVO Fund
Network7
Alex MooreScout
Investment Team at 8VC
Jeff BonforteScout
Venture Partner at Parade Ventures
Wesley BarrowScout
Partner at Correlation Ventures
Ali Yahya
General Partner at a16z crypto
Guy Wuollet
General Partner at a16z crypto
Ilse Calderon
Fintech / Consumer at OVO Fund
Kartik Talwar
General Partner at A.Capital Ventures
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