About
Co-founder and CTO of Gridware, which develops real-time monitoring systems for electrical grids.
Co-Founder & CTO at GridwareYC W21
Intro paths
YC
Hall went through Y Combinator (Winter 2021) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Gridware's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Hall can intro founders to Gridware's investors below.
Gridware's investors · 15
AiSprouts VCSan Francisco · $500K checksAnorak VenturesLos Angeles · $25K – $400K checksConvective CapitalSan FranciscoFifty YearsSan Francisco · $250K – $2M checksGeneration Investment ManagementLondonHAWKTAILSan FranciscoLOWERCARBONJackson · $1M – $50M checksLowercarbon CapitalNew York · $100K – $5M checksSequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checksTiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checksTRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)San Francisco · $250K – $2M checksTrue VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $3M checksU.S. Air Forcesince 2021Wireframe VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $2M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2021
Co-founders at Gridware
TB
Tim BaratFounder
OB
Omar BFounder
Experience
- GridwareCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2020 — present
- AstranisRF Payload Design2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- Stanford University - Hansen Experimental Physics LaboratoryGP-B Research Intern2014Palo Alto, California, United States
Skills & more
Cadence Virtuoso2Agilent ADS4Altium Designer5Python15LTSpice1Matlab12Java14SPICE3RF Design3
From Hall's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Hall Chen?
- Co-founder and CTO of Gridware, which develops real-time monitoring systems for electrical grids.
- Where does Hall Chen work?
- Hall Chen is Co-Founder & CTO of Gridware.
- What companies did Hall Chen found?
- Hall Chen founded Gridware.
- Where did Hall Chen go to school?
- Hall Chen studied at University of California, Berkeley (B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences); Y Combinator (W21).
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