John Chen Overview

  • Primary Position
  • Partner

  • Primary Industry
  • B2B

  • Med. Deal Size

  • Med. Valuation

John Chen General Information

Biography

Mr. John Chen serves as Partner at Fika Ventures. He served as Board Observer at Crunchbase. He served as an Associate at Emergence Capital Partners. He is passionate about cloud technologies that transform industries and enable teams and organizations to work together and collaborate more effectively. Prior to joining Emergence, he served as Special Assistant to Aaron Levie at Box, a pre-IPO startup focused on providing secure ways for businesses and organizations to share content and improve collaboration on any device. Box is used by 27 million people and 240,000 businesses - including 99% of the Fortune 500. At Box, he drove numerous strategic initiatives in sales, marketing and business development including the launch of Box.org, which serves over a thousand nonprofits including The World Bank, Teach for America, and Kiva. Prior to Box, he worked on open government products and initiatives on Google's Politics & Elections products team, and domestic policy at The White House under the Obama Administration. He earned his B.A. at Harvard University, where he served as Chief Financial Officer for the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, the largest annual student conference in Asia.

Contact Information

Primary Position
Partner, Fika Ventures
Education
Harvard University, BA (Bachelor of Arts)
Gender
Male
Email
jo
Address
  • 9696 Culver Boulevard
  • Suite 204
  • Culver City, CA 90232
  • United States

John Chen Positions (1)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
Fika Ventures Investor Partner Culver City, CA Venture Capital

John Chen Lead Partner on Deals (1)

John Chen has been the lead partner on 1 deal. Their latest deal was with Crunchbase, a media and information services (b2b) company. The deal was made for on 30-Oct-2019.

Company Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Deal Status Industry Location
Crunchbase 30-Oct-2019 Later Stage VC (Series C) Completed Media and Information Services (B2B) San Francisco, CA

John Chen Network (22)

Board Members (5)

Name Company Representing Location From
Kevin Spain Crunchbase Emergence (Financial Services) San Francisco, CA
Michael Yang Crunchbase Self San Francisco, CA
Crunchbase Alignment Growth San Francisco, CA
Crunchbase Emergence (Financial Services) San Francisco, CA

Portfolio Executives (10)

Name Company Role Deal date Location
Marcus Lo Crunchbase Chief Financial Officer & Head of Finance and Operation 30-Oct-2019 San Francisco, CA
Kelly Scheib Crunchbase Chief People Officer 30-Oct-2019 San Francisco, CA
Crunchbase Chief Executive Officer 30-Oct-2019 San Francisco, CA
Crunchbase Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Growth Officer 30-Oct-2019 San Francisco, CA
Crunchbase Chief Technology Officer 30-Oct-2019 San Francisco, CA

John Chen Affiliated Funds (1)

Fund Investor Fund Type Status Vintage Size Dry Powder IRR IRR Quartile
Emergence Capital Partners Fund IV Emergence (Financial Services) Venture Capital - Early Stage Closed 2015

John Chen FAQs

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    John Chen’s primary position is Partner.

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