James Chan

Founder

2022 - Current

With 20 years’ experience across public accounting, Fortune 500, hypergrowth start-ups and corporate venture capital, JMC Strategic Advisory was created to partner with venture capital funds and operating companies to help fund managers and CEOs achieve financial objectives.

Chief Financial Officer

2024

Bow Capital – a University of California ecosystem fund. Bow is an early-stage venture fund founded in partnership with the University of California Board of Regents. Our UC partnership gives us broad access to the University’s massive talent pool for sourcing and evaluating opportunities.

Chief Financial Officer

2023

Our name says it all - we identify and invest in the leading bank technology companies, and are deeply entrenched in community banking to make sure the companies work effectively with our banks to deliver maximum value and impact. ‍ The ecosystem we’ve developed is our greatest strength and is why 100+ leading community banks have joined us, and also why leading technology entrepreneurs work with us.

Advisor

2023

Chief Financial Officer

2022 - 2023

Lineate helps companies go from myth to reality with custom technology. Handling billions of transactions and terabytes of data, Lineate's technology solutions have enabled companies like The New York Times, AppNexus, and NYU to achieve their goals for over a decade.

Chief Financial Officer

2022

Breakout Ventures is the home for creative bioscience entrepreneurs. We invest in early stage companies harnessing the power of cells to build solutions in human health and sustainability. Our team has spent the last decade supporting science-driven companies moving with urgency. We partner with bold founders throughout the entire life cycle, from seed to scale. We believe cells are the engine of the next decade as the tools, technologies and, most importantly, talent from across industries are brought to bear on biology and chemistry in surprising ways. Breakout Ventures, building the future powered by science.

Chief Financial Officer

2022

First Spark Ventures is a Deep Tech venture capital fund investing in breakthrough technologies that make the world healthier, safer, and more productive.

Founding Member

2022

We are an independent, invitation-only, peer community where CFOs share knowledge / best practices and support each other throughout our lives and careers.

Investor

2022

Finix is the smartest way for businesses to own, manage and monetize payments. Created by payments experts from First Data, PayPal, and Worldpay, Finix is trusted by companies like Clubessential and Lightspeed POS Inc. to build and scale their payments infrastructure. Headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Cincinnati, Ohio, Finix is a privately held company funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Homebrew, Insight Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, Visa, Precursor Ventures, Class 5 Global, and Village Capital.

Investor

2020

Sabio is one of the oldest and most respected coding bootcamps in the country, having been founded by tech industry innovators, and today taught exclusively by experts from companies like Fox, Gamefly, Stack Overflow, TMZ and UCLA. Unlike other bootcamps, Sabio’s instructors go through an intensive vetting process, and must be executive or C-level executives before teaching in a classroom.

Investor

2021

Didi Chuxing (“DiDi”) is the world’s leading mobile transportation and local services platform. The company offers a full range of app-based services to over 550 million users across Asia Pacific, Latin America, Russia and South Africa, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, P2P ridesharing, bus, bikes & e-bikes, designated driving, automobile solutions, delivery and logistics, community group-buying services and financial services. Tens of millions of car owners, drivers and delivery partners who find flexible work and income opportunities on DiDi’s platform complete over 10 billion orders a year.