Wesley Chan
Managing Partner at FPV Ventures
Jackson, Wyoming
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
2022 - Current
FPV Ventures is a $450M Fund that backs and serves mission-driven founders. FPV is an investor in Canva, Flexport, Guild Education, XOps, Enveda, Trialspark, and Manifold Bio. Most of our LPs are mission-driven endowments for charities, foundations, and universities doing amazing things for the world. I co-founded the fund with Pegah Ebrahimi in February 2022.
FPV Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
Board Member & Lead Series A, Lead Series C Investor
2015
Since launching in August 2013, Canva has been changing the way in which we communicate. Today our design tool has attracted over 100 million+ happy users across 190 countries, who have collectively created more than 15 billion+ designs. Canva is one of the world's most iconic and valuable private internet startups. I led the Series A and Series C rounds and am a member of the Board of Directors.
Board Member & Lead Series A Investor
2015
CultureAmp empowers teams and fuel positive change with employee engagement, performance, and development tools – all in one intuitive platform. I led the Series A round and am a member of the Board of Directors.
Board Member & Lead Series Seed Investor
2020
Xilis is developing next-generation technologies to guide precision therapy for cancer patients and accelerate drug discovery and development. I led the Series Seed round and am a member of the Board of Directors.
Xilis is an oncology and precision health company that provides technologies to diagnoses cancer.
Raised $92,000,000.00 from FPV Ventures, EQT, Two Sigma Ventures, Mubadala Capital Ventures, Google Ventures, Alix Ventures, Alexandria Venture Investments, Felicis, Duke Angel Network and Catalio Capital Management.
Board Member & Lead Series A Investor
2021
Opsera automates any CI/CD toolchain, enables declarative pipelines, and provides unified insights across your entire software delivery process. I led the Series A round and am a member of the Board of Directors.
Opsera is the provider of the first Continuous Orchestration platform for DevOps practitioners.
Raised $31,300,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Felicis, Taiwania Capital Management Corporation, Clear Ventures, Alumni Ventures, 25madison, Trinity Ventures, HMG Ventures, Firebolt Ventures and Felicis.
Board Member
2021
The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.
Metropolitan Opera, commonly referred to as the "Met", is a company based in New York City.
Raised $1,000,000.00 from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Advisor & Investor
2013
I was one of the first checks and an early advisor to the top logistics and freight company in Silicon Valley.
Flexport is a full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to fix the user experience in global trade.
Raised $2,699,000,000.00 from Shopify.
Advisor & Investor
2014
Zipline delivers urgently needed vaccines and medical supplies via fixed-wing autonomous drones.
Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products.
Raised $821,000,000.00 from Katalyst Ventures.
Board Observer & Lead Series A Investor
2017
HyperScience has best-in-class AI for automating the intake of unstructured documents.
Hyperscience is an intelligent document-processing platform for enterprises.
Raised $288,879,675.00 from Stripes, Flucas Ventures, Gaingels, Bessemer Venture Partners and Global Founders Capital.
Board Observer & Series C Investor
2015
Dialpad is the market leading cloud phone and communications platform. They are the creators of UberConference (best conference calling product on the market). I helped to incubate Dialpad and led their Series A round while at Google Ventures and led an investment in their Series C round at Felicis Ventures.
Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that turns conversations into opportunities and helps teams make smart calls.
Raised $450,000,000.00 from Amasia, T-Mobile Ventures, YTWO, Empede Capital, Google Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, Work-Bench, Section 32 and OMERS Growth Equity.