Kelly Chen
Founding Team at NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)
Kelly Chen
Founding Team at NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Team
2023 - Current
Inaugural €1B deep tech VC backing ambitious founders in both public and private sectors to secure the future for the Alliance's 1B citizens. Our focus areas include energy, AI, defence, climate, industrials, space, health, and biotechnology. NIF is the first multi-sovereign-backed fund and operates as a standalone VC, leading both early stage investments and fund-of-funds. NIF brings together a founding team with over 6 decades of deep tech investing, alongside a Board of Directors and Limited Partners at the highest levels of government, venture capital, innovation and defence.
Investor + Board Observer
2024
Lightest high-performance advanced composite structures for aerospace, automotive, and defense - at unprecedented scale and efficiency.
Partner
2017 - 2023
With $4B AUM, DCVC backs early stage entrepreneurs applying deep tech to transform giant industries. Our portfolio spans geospatial infrastructure, risk transformation, computational care, robotics, and AI, with a focus on pushing the global frontier of technology. I enjoy working on problems arising from fundamental population and labor driven shifts. I am especially excited about teams building revolutionary tech in AI, robotics, manufacturing, logistics, sustainability, and future of work.
Investor + Board Member
2023 - 2023
Groundbreaking computer vision + robotics to reinvent the economics of recycling, tackling the 2 billion tons of municipal waste annually.
Investor + Board Member
2020 - 2023
Advanced robotics and autonomy to revolutionize online grocery
Investor + Board Observer
2020 - 2023
Purpose-built advanced mobility, perception, autonomous navigation, and manipulation in logistics
Investor + Board Member
2017 - 2023
Computer vision technology that tackles the number one concern in eldercare, resulting in 70% fewer ER visits and 40% fewer falls
Board Member
2021 - 2022
Transforms clinical wound care management, resulting in 48% less nurse time and 300% faster healing rate
Investor + Board Observer
2020 - 2022
Uniquely creates 100% process-emissions-free regulated cement (OPC), which traditionally accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions
Investor + Board Observer
2019 - 2022
Computer vision platform tackles the $30B+ of annual textile manufacturing waste, allowing remediation of textile defects at production, 100% traceability and near 0% defect