Charles (Chad) Depue Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Investing in startups and funds with Snap friends. We write checks from $100k up.Select investments include Speechify, Eraser, Captions, Poparazzi, BeReal, Gowalla, Hamul, PhotoRoom, Rainbow, Overtime Sports, Extra, Daze, Locket, Customuse, Muze, Stytch, Nate, Haystack, Here.fm, Uno, and many others. http://uncommon.fyi

New York, New York, US

Santa Monica, California, US

Santa Monica, California, US

Seed investor; Wrote the first line of code then hired a team of 27 engineers and data scientists, growing the company to > 10 billion impressions per month, with a global reach of more than 200 million users. I mentored one of the best tech teams in Los Angeles, and was instrumental in the culture and success of Whisper from day one.

US

Inaka makes high-performance server applications and popular iOS and Android applications. Clients include Whisper, TigerText, National CineMedia, MTV, VH1, Social Sentinel, MeetMe, Good, Sqor, and VISA USA. We use technologies such as Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, Python, Node.JS. We host our solutions for clients and have worked with major media brands and.

US

Responsible for Visto's most successful and award-winning product to-date – Visto Mobile 5.5. Worked with partners, vendors, and customers at Vodafone, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, Alltel, Softbank, Cisco, Openwave, Yahoo, IBM, Alcatel- Lucent, Apple, Comverse, and others.

US

Created a team focused on maturing the software development process at Visto acrossdevelopment teams on four continents. Led the technology side of a $29 million deal with Vodafone Global. Managed a team of 10 Product and Program Managers.

Managed merger between Visto and Viair from engineering perspective; Led team that developed Visto's ConstantSync architecture. Coordinated developers across development centers in London, Seattle, and Redwood Shores. Managed a team of 25 engineers directly.

Tested and shipped software for mobile devices in an ultra-fast paced startup environment. Built a team of 15. We shipped both mobile apps in Java and a Windows desktop app. Was in charge of both the testing of the code and shipping all code to production, so our team was almost like a modern day release engineering team. Helped with sales engineering.

Redmond, Washington, US

Released Visual Interdev 6.0, Visual Basic. Part of the early.NET team. Tested and contributed to the specifications of ASP.NET and ADO.NET. Designed the MAUI automation framework used by engineers at Microsoft across multiple divisions.