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Vincent Chu

CTO/Co-Founder at HomeVision

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Vincent Chu is the CTO/Co-Founder at HomeVision in Palo Alto, California. With a background that includes roles at Twitter as a Staff Software Engineer and Posterous as Director of Engineering, he brings expertise in software development and operations to his current position. Vincent holds a PhD from Stanford University and has experience as a Partner at Initialized Capital.

Work Experience 

  • CTO/Co-Founder

    2020 - Current

HomeVision develops cutting-edge technology and tools for the residential real estate appraisal industry.

  • Partner

    2016 - 2020

Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.

  • Software Engineer

    2014 - 2016

Building the fastest, simplest way for consumers to finance their home.

Raised $24,300,000.00 from Venrock, Fuel Capital, Greywolf Capital Partners, Redpoint, Slow Ventures, AGO Partners and Augusta Investments.

  • Staff Software Engineer

    2012 - 2014

X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.

Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.

  • Director of Engineering

    2008 - 2012

    Managed a full-stack engineering team. Responsible for scaling the Posterous application stack from a monolithic Rails app into a service-oriented architecture over three years. Specific areas: activity feed, integration with third-party APIs, scheduling and queueing systems, and email deliverability.

Posterous is an innovative company focused on making blogging simple as simple as sending an email.

Raised $10,140,000.00 from The InVentures Group and Founder Collective.

  • Associate Consultant

    2003 - 2004

    Financial and customer retention modeling for several Fortune 500 technology companies.

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