John Chen
Partner at Fika Ventures
Los Angeles, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
Principal
2020 - 2021
Fika Ventures is a LA-based boutique seed fund focused on b2b software, fintech, and healthcare IT. While we live in and love LA, we invest all over the country!
Fika Ventures is a pre-Series A stage venture fund that invests in vertical SaaS, fintech, commerce enablement, healthcare, and marketplaces
Columnist
2018
Covering the future of work and culture. https://techcrunch.com/author/john-chen/
Investor
2014 - 2018
Emergence Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on the enterprise cloud. Notable investments include Zoom, Salesforce, Box, Yammer, Veeva, and Gusto. I worked on our investments in CrunchBase, SimpleLegal, LogDNA, Project44, Guru, DroneDeploy and Blend Labs.
Emergence supported a few carefully selected CEOs who shared our vision that corporate software would migrate to the cloud.
Board Observer & Series A Investor
2015 - 2018
CrunchBase is the leading platform to discover innovative companies and the people behind them. Founded in 2007, CrunchBase began as a simple database to track startups covered on TechCrunch. Today, CrunchBase delivers market insights to millions of users and businesses around the world. The CrunchBase Dataset is constantly expanding through contributions from our community of users, investment firms, and network of global partners.
Crunchbase provides intelligent prospecting software powered by live company data for salespeople, CEOs, and VCs to find and close deals.
Raised $106,500,000.00 from Alignment Growth, Mayfield Fund, OMERS Ventures and Emergence.
Chief of Staff to the CEO
2012 - 2014
Since 2005, Box has made it easier for people to securely share ideas, collaborate and get work done faster. Today, more than 41 million users and 85,000 businesses—including 69% of the Fortune 500—trust Box to manage content in the cloud.
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls.
Raised $1,458,950,000.00 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Fellow
2012 - 2012
Built products to help citizens understand elections data in the US and abroad.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Domestic Policy
2011 - 2011
Council on Environmental Quality works in the development of environmental policies.