John Fan
InvestorPartner at Inception Capital
San Francisco, California
Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M
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About
John Fan is Head of Strategy at a stealth startup focused on post-LLM technology. He has a background in engineering and venture capital.
Experience
- Stealth Post-LLM StartupHead of Strategycurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Inception CapitalPartnercurrent2021 — present
- Blumberg CapitalAssociate2017 — 2021San Francisco, California, United States
- Foundation CapitalSummer Associate2016 — 2017Menlo Park, California, United States
- GoogleEngineer, Google Cloud Platform2015 — 2016Mountain View, California, USA
Skills & more
Microsoft Office11Matlab11Java12HTML8Editing4Analysis4Project Management6SQL4Cloud Computing2Data Analysis3Microsoft Excel2Research3
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- Who is John Fan?
- John Fan is Head of Strategy at a stealth startup focused on post-LLM technology. He has a background in engineering and venture capital.
- Where does John Fan work?
- John Fan is Partner at Inception Capital.
- What check size does John Fan write?
- John Fan typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
- Where did John Fan go to school?
- John Fan studied at The Wharton School (MBA); Duke University (Electrical Engineering, Economics).
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Also attended Duke University820
Marc AndreessenCo-founder & General Partner at Andreessen HorowitzFred EhrsamCo-founder and Senior Advisor at Paradigm; founder of NudgeJeremy LevinePartner at Bessemer Venture PartnersZach PerretCo-founder & CEO of Plaid; co-founder of MischiefJulie YangVice President at InvestcorpAyaan PatelInvestor at Lightbank
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Shared employers
Also worked at Inception Capital3
Also worked at Blumberg Capital38
David J. BlumbergFounder and Managing Partner of Blumberg CapitalBruce TaraginManaging Director at Blumberg CapitalJared KatzenSenior Associate at Blumberg CapitalAnkur JainManaging Partner at EMERGENT VENTURESJaime FelixCFO at AudaciousAndrewInvestor at Exceptional Capital
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Also worked at Foundation Capital73
Steve VassalloInvestor at Foundation CapitalJoanne ChenInvestor at Foundation CapitalLeo LuInvestor at Foundation CapitalJaya GuptaInvestor at Foundation CapitalAshu GargInvestor at Foundation CapitalZack GrimmerInvestor at IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)
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Also worked at Google2,000
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