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John Fan

Investor

Partner at Inception Capital

San Francisco, California

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

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

  1. Stealth Post-LLM StartupHead of Strategycurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Inception CapitalPartnercurrent2021 — present
  3. Blumberg CapitalAssociate2017 — 2021San Francisco, California, United States
  4. Foundation CapitalSummer Associate2016 — 2017Menlo Park, California, United States
  5. GoogleEngineer, Google Cloud Platform2015 — 2016Mountain View, California, USA

Education

  1. The Wharton SchoolMBA
  2. Duke UniversityElectrical Engineering, Economics

Skills & more

Microsoft Office11Matlab11Java12HTML8Editing4Analysis4Project Management6SQL4Cloud Computing2Data Analysis3Microsoft Excel2Research3

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Colleagues at Inception Capital

Udhav Goenka
Investor at Inception Capital

Frequently asked questions

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.

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