Clint Chao
General Partner at Moment Ventures
Clint Chao
General Partner at Moment Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and General Partner
2013 - Current
Early stage IT venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA investing in B2B tech companies focused on transforming the Future of Industries in and across industry verticals including logistics, food, healthcare, creator, travel and more. Current active investments include Flowspace, Ambient, Tendrel, Pod Foods, Rafay, Swing Education, Validere, AltoIRA and other unannounced investments. http://www.momentventures.com
Member Board of Directors
2023
Founded by the original graduates of the University of California in 1872, the Cal Alumni Association today represents more than half a million alumni living throughout the world. Go Bears! https://alumni.berkeley.edu/
Investor and Board Member
2017
Flowspace is one of the largest technology-based on-demand warehouse and logistics platforms for fulfillment and storage. Moment Ventures led the seed round and have since co-invested alongside Canvas, the Build Group and Industrious Ventures. http://www.flow.space
Investor and Board Member
2019
Pod Foods is a full-service digital B2B distribution and logistics platform for food and beverage brands to connect with store and enterprise buyers around the country. Moment led the seed round and have welcomed additional investors M12 Ventures and Industrious Ventures. http://www.podfoods.co
Investor and Board Observer
2023
Tendrel is a workforce quality and optimization platform built for frontline industries. Moment co-led the Company's seed round with Zenda VC, and joined by co-investors Bread & Butter Ventures, Everywhere VC, Supply Change Cpital and Chingona Ventures. http://www.tendrel.io
Investor
2016
Swing Education's innovative workforce infrastructure platform connects schools with substitute teachers and families with remote learning resources. Moment Ventures led the company's seed round and has since welcomed investors Apax, Reach Capital, GV and Owl Ventures. http://www.swingeducation.com
Investor
2019
AltoIRA is a digital fintech platform enabling investments into alternative assets (PE, VC, Real Estate, Crypto, direct, etc) using retirement accounts (IRAs). Moment led the seed round and have since welcomed additional investors Unusual Ventures and Advanced Venture Partners. http://www.altoira.com
Investor
2017
Rafay enables developers to automate the distribution, operations, cross-region scaling and lifecycle management of containerized microservices across public and private clouds, and service provider networks. Moment Ventures invested in Rafay's Series A and seed rounds, which include Ridge Ventures, Costanoa and ForgePoint Capital. http://www.rafay.co
Investor
2020
Pantastic is an AI infrastructure company that federates independent e-commerce brands. The Company's investors include Moment Ventures, B Capital, Slow Ventures, Upside Partnership and Precursor Ventures. http://www.pantastic.com
Investor
2016
Validere's AI & IoT platform is empowering oil & gas organizations to optimize critical blending, logistics, and trading decisions. Moment Ventures invested in Validere's Series A and Seed rounds, which include WingVC, Greylock and Sallyport Ventures. http://www.validere.com
Education
B.S.
1980 - 1984