Shin Chen
Summer Associate at Race Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Summer Associate
2024 - Current
Race Capital invests and partners with pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies in the infrastructure spaces including collaboration, dev tools, API's, privacy, security, etc. If you're working on something cool send me a message and would love to chat! https://www.race.capital/
Race Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on all things infrastructure
Angel Investor
2024
The Council is a consortium of women who are active angel investors.
Angel Squad
2024
Venture Fellow
2023
SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for affiliated entrepreneurs.
Venture Fellow
2024 - 2024
Angel Investor
2024 - 2024
Unlocking prevention for 8 billion people. A full health check-up with your smartphone in <2 minutes.
YOUTH uses data collected from smartphone sensors and machine learning to make prevention easily accessible.
Raised $830,000.00 from Magnetic Capital, Moonstone, Jean Charles Samuelian, Antler, Konstantin Othmer, Patrick Andrae and Catalpa Ventures.
Co-Founder
2021 - 2023
Built interactive VR tours for clients in education and tourism (e.g., UCLA, UCI, Hilton Group), and pioneered a sustainable business model that recouped capital funds within six months.
PeekPeek provides an interactive Virtual Reality website for 24-hour telepresent.
Co-Founder
2018 - 2022
Spearheaded the franchise opportunity, raising $2M and leading a 30+ team to strategize Miniso’s entry into the Ghana market, achieving $1.8M in annual revenue and top 3 brand recognition within a year.
Area Trade Lane Manager - West Africa/China
2017 - 2018
Managed 90+ business accounts across 6 countries within the West Africa region, supporting logistics activities and freight-forwarding tasks for large-scale infrastructural projects across the region, with a total project valuation of USD 1.5B
Sales Executive
2015 - 2016
Increased company sales revenue by 300% by developing a sales strategy targeting higher profit margins from new client groups (automobiles of a larger size), breaking into an untapped market for a range of products
Maxxis International is an automotive company that manufactures tires.