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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

  • Advisory Board Member

    2010

  • 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

  • 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.

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