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.
Founder at Chanceapp
Intro paths
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Experience
- Chance AppCo-Foundercurrent2024 — presentLos Angeles, CA
- IntroExpert Advisorcurrent2023 — present
- DiscordStaff Software Engineer2023 — 2024Florida, United States
- GasCo-Founder, CTO2022 — 2024Los Angeles, California, United States
- NGLFounding Team, Advisor2022 — 2023Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
- PoparazziCo-Founder, CTO2021 — 2022
- Monkey AppCo-Founder and CTO2016 — 2018
- SIMULATEFounding Team2016 — 2018
- 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
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Frequently asked questions
- 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).
Founder mafias
Discord mafia8
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SIMULATE mafia2
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Shared employers
Also worked at Intro13
Jacob MullinsVenture Partner at Copper Sky CapitalPaulina SzyzdekPrincipal at E12 Venture Capital, LlcLaurent GrillPartner at JLL Spark Global VenturesJosh PayneCo-Founder & General Partner at OpenSky VenturesNuno Goncalves PedroManaging Partner at ChamaeleonJorden WoodsManaging Partner at StarChain Ventures
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Also worked at Discord25
Danny RimerPartner at Index VenturesDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockJason CitronCo-founder of DiscordNiko BonatsosVerdict Capital founder and pre-consensus investor formerly at General CatalystWill ReedInvestor at Spark CapitalAlex LimInvestor at IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)
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