Ellen Chisa
Partner at boldstart ventures
Ellen Chisa
Partner at boldstart ventures
Somerville, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Founder-in-Residence
2021 - 2022
Working with engineers before and while they start their companies, esp. on product and developer communities.
Investor/Board Member
2022
APIs for building multiplayer experiences.
Investor/Board Member
2021
Angel Investor
2017
HumanFirst, GraphCDN, Skydio, Drafted (Upwork), and Pinch (Chime), and many more unannounced.
CEO & Co-Founder
2017 - 2020
Co-founder and CEO of Dark, a programming language coupled to its editor and infrastructure. Launched first product and onboarded all original users, grew team to 10, raised $5.5M in capital.
Advisor
2016 - 2018
VP Product
2015 - 2017
Instructor
2015 - 2016
Fall 2016: Teaching Human Factors and Interface Design w/ Amon Miller. Spring 2015: Designed and taught an alumni seminar on Product Management. Full syllabus and curriculum available: http://blog.ellenchisa.com/2015/02/05/pmolin-syllabus/
#rev2 Participant
2016 - 2016
Instructor
2014 - 2016
Taught the 10 week Product Management course and periodically teach Product Management Bootcamp. https://generalassemb.ly/education/product-management https://generalassemb.ly/education/product-management-bootcamp
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
You should wireframe
Talks about wireframing, software development and usability studies
Get useful input -
Talks about VC meetings, customer introductions and cash management
Skip the line -
Talks about early stage sales consulting, VC introductions and ideal customer profile (ICP)
I built something!
Talks about working with engineers, venture capital and raising money