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Wesley Chan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at FPV Ventures, a $450M early stage fund that backs and serves mission-driven founders. Named to the Forbes Midas List in 2024, Wesley is an early investor in five $10B+ "decacorns," his most notable being Canva where he is a member of the board of directors, led the Series A and C rounds, and is worth north of $40B. He founded Google Analytics and Google Voice and holds 18 US patents for his work in creating Google AdWords. Among Wesley's 20+ unicorn investments, he wrote the first or very early check into fintech API decacorn Plaid, logistics powerhouse Flexport, SMB payroll leader Gusto, enterprise software unicorn Lucid, and stock trading platform RobinHood (NASDAQ: HOOD)-- and led investments in Canva, AngelList, Carta, Guild Education, Sourcegraph, Dialpad, RocketLawyer, Orca Bio, Checkr, CultureAmp, HyperScience, Zipline, Astranis, TrialSpark, and Ring (acq. AMZN). Business Insider named Wesley to their Top 100 Seed Investors list for two consecutive years in 2022 & 2021.He was formerly a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures and one of the first General Partners at GV (Google Ventures). He led investments and/or held board seats in Xilis, AngelList, Opsera, Pendulum Therapeutics, ProteinQure, Okera, Ascend.io, Overture Life, TopFunnel, Spring Discovery, iPierian (acq. BMS), Transphorm (NASDAQ: TGAN) and Dialpad. Wesley also founded GV’s seed investing program and wrote first checks into RobinHood, Plaid, Gusto, RobinHood, Vungle ($750M exit to Blackstone), Lucid, Optimizely, DataPad (acq. Cloudera), Freshplum (acq. TWTR), Namo Media (acq. TWTR), and Parse (acq. to FB).Wesley is a recipient of Google’s Founders Award – the company’s most prestigious recognition – for leading the development of Google’s early client efforts, which led to the creation of Google Chrome. He also worked at HP Labs as a senior software engineer and at Microsoft Research as a research fellow. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT and completed his Masters degree at the MIT Media Lab.Technology Review magazine featured Wesley as a “Top 35 Under 35” innovator. Wesley’s accomplishments have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, and Fortune, and his story as a product founder is featured in Steven Levy’s best-selling Google book, “In The Plex.” As a fan of the arts, Wesley is also a board member of the Met Opera in New York City.
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Co-Founder And Managing PartnerFpv VenturesJackson, Wy, Us
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Co-Founder & Managing PartnerFpv Ventures Feb 2022 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, UsFPV Ventures is a $450M Fund that backs and serves mission-driven founders. FPV is an investor in Canva, Flexport, Guild Education, XOps, Enveda, Trialspark, and Manifold Bio. Most of our LPs are mission-driven endowments for charities, foundations, and universities doing amazing things for the world.I co-founded the fund with Pegah Ebrahimi in February 2022.
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Board Member & Lead Series A, Lead Series C InvestorCanva Oct 2015 - PresentSurry Hills, New South Wales, AuSince launching in August 2013, Canva has been changing the way in which we communicate. Today our design tool has attracted over 100 million+ happy users across 190 countries, who have collectively created more than 15 billion+ designs. Canva is one of the world's most iconic and valuable private internet startups. I led the Series A and Series C rounds and am a member of the Board of Directors. -
Board Member & Lead Series A InvestorCulture Amp Feb 2015 - PresentRichmond, Victoria, AuCultureAmp empowers teams and fuel positive change with employee engagement, performance, and development tools – all in one intuitive platform.I led the Series A round and am a member of the Board of Directors. -
Board Member & Lead Series Seed InvestorXilis Feb 2020 - PresentDurham, North Carolina, UsXilis is developing next-generation technologies to guide precision therapy for cancer patients and accelerate drug discovery and development.I led the Series Seed round and am a member of the Board of Directors. -
Board Member & Lead Series A InvestorOpsera Mar 2021 - PresentPalo Alto, Ca, UsOpsera automates any CI/CD toolchain, enables declarative pipelines, and provides unified insights across your entire software delivery process.I led the Series A round and am a member of the Board of Directors. -
Board MemberMetropolitan Opera Nov 2021 - PresentNew York, Ny, UsThe Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world. -
Advisor & InvestorFlexport Sep 2013 - PresentSan Francisco, California, UsI was one of the first checks and an early advisor to the top logistics and freight company in Silicon Valley. -
Advisor & InvestorZipline International Inc. Aug 2014 - PresentSouth San Francisco, California, UsZipline delivers urgently needed vaccines and medical supplies via fixed-wing autonomous drones. -
Board Observer & Lead Series A InvestorHyperscience Jun 2017 - PresentNew York, New York, UsHyperScience has best-in-class AI for automating the intake of unstructured documents. -
Board Observer & Series C InvestorDialpad Mar 2015 - PresentSan Ramon, California, UsDialpad is the market leading cloud phone and communications platform. They are the creators of UberConference (best conference calling product on the market). I helped to incubate Dialpad and led their Series A round while at Google Ventures and led an investment in their Series C round at Felicis Ventures. -
Board Member & Lead Series B InvestorX1 Card Jul 2022 - Aug 2023San Francisco, California, UsX1 Card (acq. by Robinhood) is one of the US's top credit cards smartest credit card with smart credit limits, an unparalleled rewards program, and automated features that make your life easier. The company was acquired by Robinhood in Aug. 2023I led the Series B round and was a member of the Board of Directors. -
Board Member & Lead Series Seed InvestorOkera (Acq. Databricks) Aug 2017 - May 2023Okera is building a next generation data governance platform for large enterprises. Okera was acquired by DataBricks in 2023.I led the Series Seed round and am a member of the Board of Directors
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Board Member & Lead Series A InvestorOverture Life Jul 2019 - Apr 2023New York, New York, UsOverture Life is redefining how IVF can be done safely and at a 10x lower cost than current alternatives.I led the Series A round and was a member of the Board of Directors. -
Board Member, People And Compensation Committee Member, & Lead Series C InvestorGuild Education Apr 2018 - Sep 2022Denver, Co, UsGuild Education provides a free (or nearly free) college education as an employee benefit to many of the 64M front line workers in America, including employees at Walmart, Disney, Discover Financial, Lowes Home Improvement, and Chipotle.I led the Series C round and am a member of the Board of Directors and the People & Compensation Committee. -
Managing DirectorFelicis Ventures Dec 2014 - Jan 2022Menlo Park, California, UsI've led investments in more than 36 companies and am a board member/observer at Canva, Guild Education, CultureAmp, Dialpad, Hyperscience, Opsera, Overture Life, Xilis, and Okera. I also invested in Ring ($1B+ exit to AMZN), Flexport, Gusto, Orca Bio, Trialspark, Sourcegraph, Pendulum Theraputics, Spring Discovery, Zipline, TopFunnel, Astranis, ProteinQure, Bright, Ascend.io, WorkBase, Quartz Robotics, PeerStreet, Skip the Dishes (exit to JustEats), YES (exit to TWTR) and Turvo. -
Board Member & Chair Of The Compensation CommitteeFocusvision Feb 2017 - Apr 2021New York, Ny, UsI chaired the compensation committee and was the independent member of the Board of Directors at FocusVision, the leading marketing and consumer insights solutions provider. (FocusVision was acq. by Forsta in 2022) -
Board Member & Lead Series Seed InvestorTurvo Inc. (Acq. Lineage) Apr 2015 - Oct 2020Turvo (acq. by Lineage) is building a new generation trucking and transportation management platform.I led the Series Seed round and was a member of the Board of Directors.
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Angel InvestorSelf-Employed 2014 - 2015My angel investments includes: Carta ($7B+), Flexport (first check, now worth $8B+), Checkr ($3B+), Zipline ($3B+), Dialpad ($2B+), and Squanda (exit to Credit Karma/Intuit).
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Board Member & Lead Series B InvestorApteligent (Acq. Vmw) 2013 - 2014San Francisco, Ca, UsI led the Series B round and was a member of the Board of Directors. -
Board Member & Lead Series B InvestorAngellist 2013 - 2014San Francisco, Ca, UsI led the Series B round and was a member of the Board of Directors. -
Board Observer & Series B InvestorIperian (Acq. Bms) 2011 - 2014Life science startup that had a stem cell drug discovery platform which exited to Bristol-Myers Squibb.I co-led the Series B round and was a board observer.
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Board Member & Lead Series A InvestorDialpad 2010 - 2014San Ramon, California, UsI led the Series A round and was a member of the Board of Directors.
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General PartnerGv 2009 - 2014San Francisco Bay Area, Ca , UsI founded and led the seed investing program and was the first institutional check into fintech unicorn Plaid ($13B+), HR platform Gusto ($10B+), stock trading platform RobinHood (NASDAQ: HOOD), and enterprise unicorn Lucid ($3B+).My other investments: DialPad ($1B+), Angelist ($1B+), Parse (exit to FB), Vungle (exit to Blackstone for $750m), iPierian (exit to BMS), HelloSign (exit to DBX), and Aptelligent (exit to VMWare).I sourced Climate Corp ($1B+ exit to MON), and Foundation Medicine (3B+ exit to Roche). -
Founder, Google VoiceGoogle 2006 - 2009Mountain View, Ca, UsLed the acquisition and integration for GrandCentral, Gizmo, & other telecom assets to build out and launch Google Voice. Led internal teams to build out and launch Google Voice. Negotiated and implemented carrier interconnects worldwide to provide a low-cost international termination. Assembled and coached a highly entrepreneurial and technical team to build a highly disruptive online voice services. Lobbied FCC, Congress, and state telecom authorities to ensure product could launch and grow. Google Voice is one of the largest voice services by minutes used in the US today. -
Group Product ManagerGoogle 2002 - 2009Mountain View, Ca, UsI built Google's early advertising products including AdWords and AdSense. Awarded 18 US patents and received Google's highest honor (Google Founders Award) for building many of Google's earliest and most impactful products (including Google Toolbar--which led to Google Chrome--and Google Analytics).
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Founder, Google AnalyticsGoogle 2002 - 2006Mountain View, Ca, UsLed the acquisition and integration of Urchin, MeasureMap, & other assets to build out Google Analytics. Assembled and led team for four years to launch Google’s largest (by QPS) service to date. Launched the product in 14 languages and 36 countries. Google Analytics is the largest web analytics service by market share today with millions of users.
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Chief Of Staff & Technical Advisor To Co-Founder Sergey BrinGoogle 2002 - 2006Mountain View, Ca, UsI was the first Chief of Staff and Technical Advisor to co-Founder Sergey Brin.
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Senior Software Engineer, Research Lead At Hp LabsHp 2001 - 2002Palo Alto, Ca, UsLed a research effort at HP Labs in building an early platform for connecting the physical (people, places, & things) with the virtual (web presence and online services). Published several HP Labs papers and awarded a US Patent for building out HP's early Internet of Things (IoT) efforts. -
Program ManagerMicrosoft 1999 - 2001Redmond, Washington, UsI helped to ship Microsoft Windows 2000 as part of the Release Management team. I also helped to build Microsoft’s .NET mobile developers framework. -
Research AssistantMit Media Lab 1998 - 2001Cambridge, Massachusetts, UsBuilt and hacked a lot of (cool) things.
Wesley Chan Education Details
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Massachusetts Institute Of TechnologyComputer Science & Electrical Engineering -
Massachusetts Institute Of TechnologyComputer Science
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