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Siqi Chen
Chief Financial Officer at Runway
San Francisco, California
Overview
Siqi Chen is the CEO and CFO at Runway, a finance platform known for its innovative AI assistant. With a strong background in corporate finance and product management, he has held leadership roles at companies like Sandbox VR, Postmates, and Zynga. Chen has made significant investments in various startups across sectors like FinTech, AI, and SaaS, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and strategic decision-making.
Work Experience
Chief Financial Officer
2023 - Current
Using Runway at Runway for runway purposes
CEO
2020
Disrupting the $80 trillion dollar business industry. https://runway.com
Runway is a SaaS company that offers a planning platform that allows businesses to create, manage, and share financial models and plans.
Raised $37,000,000.00 from Jason Tan, Initialized Capital and Elad Gil.
Member Board Of Directors
2018
CEO
2019 - 2020
Same.
President & Chief Product Officer
2017 - 2019
A holodeck in every neighborhood.
Sandbox VR is a virtual reality startup that offers a premium, fully-immersive virtual reality experience.
Raised $63,000,000.00 from Alibaba Group, Shrug Capital, Progression Fund, Duro Ventures, Quiet Capital, Toy Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Presence Capital, Abstract and AAFM.
Angel Investor
2010
Supporting great people and fun products @ FlashSoft (acquired by Sandisk), TouchOfModern, Slant, Amplitude, Italic, Clubhouse, etc.
Advisor
2017 - 2019
Product strategery with founders from the Google Core Search team. Acquired by Apple.
Laserlike develops web-scale content search, discovery, and personalization platform.
Raised $24,149,984.00 from Redpoint and Sutter Hill Ventures.
VP Growth
2016 - 2017
Made things go up and to the right.
Serve is a friendly, autonomous delivery robot.
CEO
2012 - 2016
Went for it. Landed our fearless and loyal team at Postmates.
Heyday is an automatic journal enabling people to keep track of the places they visit and the things they see.
Raised $7,500,000.00 from Google Ventures, Spark Capital and General Catalyst.
Head of Product + General Manager
2010 - 2012
More games.
Zynga is a mobile game developer that creates and operates social games as live services played on the Internet.
Raised $2,318,550,786.00 from Kleiner Perkins, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley and Fidelity.
CEO
2007 - 2010
Games. Sold to Zynga.
Software Engineer
2007 - 2007
Search.
Powerset is a search engine focused on in-depth natural language processing.
Raised $20,500,000.00 from Amidzad Partners, Felicis, Founders Fund, CommerceNet, Foundation Capital and Valley Venture Capital.
Product Manager
2006 - 2006
Like YouTube but not as good. As a dev, crashed site for 2 hours and then was made into a PM.
Veoh is an Internet TV service enabling viewers to discover, watch and personalize their online viewing experience.
Raised $70,750,000.00 from Goldman Sachs, Jonathan Dolgen, Adobe, Spark Capital, Warner Media, Tom Freston, Shelter Capital Partners, Gordon Crawford, The Tornante Company and Intel Capital.
Education
BA
2001 - 2005
Investments
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