Ryan Chan
Partner at FJOR
Ryan Chan
Partner at FJOR
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2016 - Current
Since 2016, UpKeep’s mission has been to empower essential maintenance workers to be more productive through the adoption of modern, cloud-based technology. Today, we have developed an innovative software solution that is simplifying facility, equipment, and inventory management for 400,000+ users in over 60 countries. Our mobile-first application gives teams the ability to create, schedule, and track work orders and manage assets more efficiently than ever before. UpKeep serves critical frontline industries such as manufacturing, food production, healthcare, property management, hospitality, and transportation. We outrank our competitors on all major software review sites including Capterra, Gartner, GetApp, G2 Crowd, and Software Advice. We're focused on being the smartest and easiest-to-use Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) by constantly improving our SaaS product and always putting our customers first! We also really value our employees and have been named a "Best Place to Work" by Inc. Magazine and Built in LA. After graduating from Y Combinator, and following a recent Series B round, UpKeep has now raised $50 million in VC funding from Insight Partners, Emergence Capital, Mucker, Battery, and FundersClub. Only 1% of venture capital is funneled towards the deskless workforce, yet 80% of the global workforce is in the field and on the frontlines, not sitting at a desk. We’re investing in the future of undervalued maintenance work and the underserved deskless technician. UpKeep has proudly taken the hard work out of 10 million work orders, and we're just getting started! Visit our website to learn more: www.upkeep.com
Partner
2024
I invest in early stage (Pre-seed / Seed Stage) B2B SaaS business that are looking to change the world
Angel Investor
2019
I write small angel-sized checks in products that I can use, UpKeep can use, or support the deskless workforce technology movement. Invested in Pipe, Census, Embrace, Actiondesk, Reflect, Evergreen, Colab, Routine, Quadrant Eye, Rutter, Spokn, Paragon, Macro, and several others.
iOS Developer
2014 - 2016
My core responsibilities included working on Play-Fi iOS applications under the DTS, Klipsch, Polk, Paradign, Pioneer, Dish, and Arcam brands. Xperi’s solutions are licensed by hundreds of leading global partners and have shipped in billions of products in areas including premium audio, broadcast, automotive, computational imaging, computer vision, mobile computing and communications, memory, data storage, and 3D semiconductor interconnect and packaging.
Process Development Engineer
2013 - 2014
Process development engineer with a specialization in thin film application of reverse osmosis membranes <200 nm thick. Developed an image-processing program to quantify SEM images for pore sizes, pore size distributions, and defects. At Trisep, I was the lead project manager for improving our membrane coating process to improve efficiency and consistency across 4 separate manufacturing lines.