Stephen Chau
Founder of Cove
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2023 - Current
Cove is a new way to work together with AI. Sign up for early access at www.cove.ai
Cove is a visual AI collaboration space that helps users and their AI collaborator to design and plan ideas.
Raised $6,000,000.00 from Homebrew, Allie K. Miller, Lenny Rachitsky, Adverb Ventures, Common Metal, Sequoia Capital and Scott Belsky.
Angel Investor and Advisor
2013
Investor and/or Advisor for some startups I love, led by founders I admire: All Day Kitchens (formerly Virtual Kitchen Co), Alto Pharmacy, Clubhouse, Faire, Houm, Lean, Magic Eden, Mill, Nelo, Nuro, Otter, Outgo, Pachama, Pepper, PermitFlow, The Pill Club, Pinwheel, Popshop Live, Statsig, TrueNorth, Zip and more
Sequoia Capital Scout
2018
Angel, Seed, Series A investor through Sequoia's scout program. Let me know if I can help with what you're building
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Senior Director of Product Management
2014 - 2020
Head of product for Uber's new businesses (Uber Everything). Founding member of the team, started Uber Eats and scaled it to a $25 billion run rate business across over 6000 cities and 43 countries in 4 years
Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Raised $30,212,450,000.00 from PayPal.
Entrepreneur in Residence
2014 - 2014
Google Ventures is an investment arm of Alphabet that provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies.
Senior Product Manager, Google Now
2012 - 2014
Product lead for Google Now's new features team. Launched new predictive Now cards, introduced Now to new clients such as the Android OS, Chrome, Android Wear and helped scale the product to hundreds of millions of monthly actives
Senior Product Manager, Google Maps
2006 - 2012
Led Google's early imagery, 3D and map data programs. Co-invented Street View, Google’s fastest growing product of 2008 and product of the year from Time Magazine, PC World and Scientific American
Manager, Corporate Development
2004 - 2006
Founding member of the team and responsible for all consumer acquisitions and investments. Closed 13 deals including Where2 (aka Google Maps), Keyhole (aka Google Earth) and Android
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.
Analyst, Investment Banking
2002 - 2004
Advised technology companies on M&A and corporate finance transactions. Client team member for companies such as Microsoft and Apple Computer. Worked on the Google IPO
Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Director, Investments Division
2001 - 2002
While a student, managed the $9 million investment portfolio of a completely student-run campus enterprise
Stanford Student Enterprises is a business and entrepreneurial organization, based out of the Stanford University campus.
Software Engineer
2000 - 2000
Built the frontend of the first independent online investment advice platform, designed by William F. Sharpe (1990 Nobel Prize in Economics)
Financial Engines is an online investment manager providing retirement account services for individuals.
Education
B.S.
1998 - 2002