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Andy Chen

General Partner at Coatue

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Andy Chen is a General Partner at Coatue, with a background that includes roles at Kleiner Perkins and the CIA. He has made notable investments in companies like Scale AI and Persona and has a strong track record in venture capital and entrepreneurship. Chen's career highlights include investing in successful companies like Scale AI at Series F and Tome at Series B, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting high-potential startups.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2024 - Current

    Mason is a smart device platform for mission-critical data collection touching 10s of thousands of lives each week.

Smarter from start to finish with Mason.™

Raised $25,120,000.00 from Notable Capital, Base10 Partners and Coatue.

  • General Partner

    2018

    My purpose is to help daring entrepreneurs build their early-stage companies into category-defining ventures. Primarily focused on investing in the first round of seed funding to Series B. Our past private investments include Figma, Chime, Airtable, Persona, DoorDash, Uber, Starburst, Snowflake, Calendly, Notion, Instacart, Spotify, Databricks, UIPath, Confluent, Hugging Face, Scale, Ramp, Deel, and Weights & Biases. At Coatue, I have invested in the following: Rick Song and Charles Yeh at Persona Dylan Field and Evan Wallace at Figma Alexandr Wang at Scale Keith Peiris and Henri Liriani at Tome Alexa Grabell and Isaac Pohl-Zaretsky at Pocus Sadi Khan, Collin Wikman and Murtada Shah at Aven Brian Camposano and Steve Singh at Stratify Technologies Desmond Lim, Lei Xu, and Max Wang at Workstream Gabriel Harper and Quentin Harper at Meticulous Daniel Loreto and Mike Landau at Jetpack Harpaul Sambhi, Rosie Chopra, Zach Piepmeyer, and Prashant Viswanathan at Magical Arjun Prakash and Derek Ho at Distyl

  • Investor

    2018

    A figment of your imagination.

Figma is a collaborative design tool that enables teams to create, prototype, and test digital products on one platform.

Raised $748,624,736.00 from Thrive Capital, XN, Andreessen Horowitz, Alkeon Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Goanna Capital, Eddy Cue, Sequoia Capital and SurgoCap.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Storytelling platform built for the age of the internet

Tome radically changes the way sales teams get deals done, with custom LLMs that assist reps throughout every stage of the sales process.

Raised $75,300,000.00 from Audacious Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Greylock, Bipul Sinha, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Eric Schmidt, Coatue, 8VC, David Luan and Emad Mostaque.

  • Investor

    2019

    Accelerating the development of AI applications.

Scale AI provides a data-oriented platform that assists in the development of AI applications.

Raised $2,602,620,000.00 from WCM Investment Management, Meta, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, NVIDIA, Nat Friedman, Thrive Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2018

    Identity infrastructure for the internet.

Persona is an identity platform that helps businesses verify customer identities.

Raised $217,518,750.00 from Coatue, Index Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Founders Fund and Bond.

  • Investor

    2023

    We are on a mission to elevate how every major institution adopts foundation models and prepares for AI readiness.

Distyl AI develops a generative artificial intelligence platform to increase AI readiness and develop comprehensive AI-based solutions.

Raised $27,000,000.00 from Coatue, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital and Nat Friedman.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Making it easy for organizations to buy and manage clean power.

  • Investor

    2022

    🔮 Turns data into revenue. Used by Asana, Canva, Miro, and many others.

Pocus is a revenue data platform for go-to-market teams to analyze and act on revenue data from prospects and customers.

Raised $23,000,000.00 from Tristan Handy, MKT1 Capital, Adam Blitzer, Barr Moses, Sri Viswanath, Allison Pickens, Scott Williamson, First Round Capital, Scott Belsky and K5 Global.

  • Investor

    2022

    Magical effortlessly moves data across all your websites.

Effortlessly move data across all your websites or web apps, so you can get your time back.

Raised $41,000,000.00 from SV Angel, Blank Ventures, Greylock, Coatue, Altman Capital, GTMfund, Bain Capital Ventures and Web Summit Ventures.

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