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Zay Chance

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Founder at Chanceapp

Los Angeles, California, United States

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About

Zay Chance is co-founder of Chance, a social discovery application that combines live voice and video infrastructure, privacy-preserving identity systems, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. He has co-founded six startups, including Gas (acquired by Discord), Poparazzi, NGL, and Monkey (acquired by Holla), and works as a full-stack engineer across these products. At Chance, he has contributed 52% of over 1,650 commits made across 14 months.

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Chanceapp's investors · 1

Abstract VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $750K checks

Experience

  1. Chance AppCo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentLos Angeles, CA
  2. IntroExpert Advisorcurrent2023 — present
  3. DiscordStaff Software Engineer2023 — 2024Florida, United States
  4. GasCo-Founder, CTO2022 — 2024Los Angeles, California, United States
  5. NGLFounding Team, Advisor2022 — 2023Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
  6. PoparazziCo-Founder, CTO2021 — 2022
  7. Monkey AppCo-Founder and CTO2016 — 2018
  8. SIMULATEFounding Team2016 — 2018
  9. Self-employedSoftware Engineer2013 — 2016

Skills & more

Pet Care1iOS Development2Amazon Web Services (AWS)1Node.js1Amazon DynamodbTerraformPython (Programming Language)Rust (Programming Language)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)ScyllaDevOpsSoftware Development
+5 moreFirebaseSwiftHTML5JavaScriptReact.js

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Who is Zay Chance?
Zay Chance is co-founder of Chance, a social discovery application that combines live voice and video infrastructure, privacy-preserving identity systems, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. He has co-founded six startups, including Gas (acquired by Discord), Poparazzi, NGL, and Monkey (acquired by Holla), and works as a full-stack engineer across these products. At Chance, he has contributed 52% of over 1,650 commits made across 14 months.
Where does Zay Chance work?
Zay Chance is Founder of Chanceapp.
What companies did Zay Chance found?
Zay Chance founded Chanceapp.
Where did Zay Chance go to school?
Zay Chance studied at St. Mary's Ryken High School (High School Dropout).

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