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Ellen Chisa
Partner at boldstart ventures
Somerville, Massachusetts
Overview
Ellen Chisa is currently a Partner at boldstart ventures, specializing in investing in cybersecurity, developer tools, and SaaS sectors in the Boston/New England and San Francisco Bay Area regions. With a background in product management and software development, she has made significant investments in companies like Zuplo, Stellate, Liveblocks, and HumanFirst, showcasing her expertise in identifying and supporting promising startups. Ellen's career highlights include serving as CEO & Co-Founder of Dark and VP Product at Lola, demonstrating her leadership and strategic vision in the tech industry.
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.
Build amazing real-time collaborative products in minutes
Raised $6,400,000.00 from boldstart ventures, Seedcamp, Atlassian, Banana Capital and Kima Ventures.
Investor/Board Member
2021
Stellate scales, protects, and optimizes your GraphQL API with edge caching, full observability, and advanced security for top performance.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management.
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.
Dark is holistic programming language, editor, and hosted infrastructure.
Raised $3,500,000.00 from Correlation Ventures, DCVC, XFactor Ventures, Cervin Ventures, NextView Ventures, Nitesh Banta, Script Capital, Backstage Capital, boldstart ventures and Promus Ventures.
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
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