Eric Chin
General Partner at Crosslink Capital
Santa Cruz, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2010 - Current
Focused on Internet, Software and Technology startups. Investing in early stage and later stage companies with exceptional founders. Portfolio Companies include: Datastax, Aizon, Step, Aescape, Kinetic, Roofr, Phil, Telegraph, Sond and Yardstik. Select Prior Investments: ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Coupa (COUP), Comparably (acquired by ZoomInfo), Verodin (FEYE), True & Co. (acquired by Calvin Klein/PVH), 500friends (acquired by Merkle), Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone), Marin Software (MRIN), Visual.ly (acquired by ScribbleLive), BuildingConnected (ADSK), Flo (acquired by FBHS), Opsource (NTT)*, Invensense (INVN)*, Dropcam (GOOG)*, Mulesoft (MULE)* echin@crosslinkcapital.com
Crosslink Capital partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage.
Advisory Board Member
2010
ALPHA is a private network for tech leaders, focusing on mobile crypto mining.
General Partner
2005 - 2010
Early stage software and internet investor at Bay Partners. Investments include: Dropcam (acq. by GOOG), YAPTA (acq. by COUP), InterAct911 (acq. by CSU)
Partner
2002 - 2005
Early Stage technology investing. Investments include: OpSource (acq. by NTT), Invensense (IPO: INVN), Zyme Solutions
Artiman is an early-stage venture fund that seeks to invest in entrepreneurs that have the potential to disrupt multi-billion markets.
VP Corporate Development
2000 - 2002
Spunout Mixed-signal engineering team from Raytheon to create and co-found TelASIC (acq by MTI)
Co-Founder
1996 - 1997
Internet Server Software (acquired by Inktomi for $106MM).
Bus Dev
1996 - 1996
BD internship at Mainspring prior to Business School. Mainspring went public (MSPR) then was acquired by IBM.