David Chen - Crunchbase Person Profile

Overview

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Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Regions West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

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David Chen is the Product Manager, at Avatars at Meta. David Chen attended Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Personal Investments

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David Chen

invested in

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
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Partner Investments

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Guardant Health	Lightspeed Venture Partners	No	Series E - Guardant Health	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Evariant	Lightspeed Venture Partners	No	Series C - Evariant	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Guardant Health	Lightspeed Venture Partners	No	Series D - Guardant Health	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Evariant	Lightspeed Venture Partners	No	Series C - Evariant	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Guardant Health	Lightspeed Venture Partners	Yes	Series C - Guardant Health	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Clever	Lightspeed Venture Partners	Yes	Series B - Clever	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Acupera, Inc.	Lightspeed Venture Partners	Yes	Series A - Acupera, Inc.	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Evariant	Lightspeed Venture Partners	Yes	Series B - Evariant	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Elementum	Lightspeed Venture Partners	Yes	Series B - Elementum	obfuscated obfuscation

Jobs

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David Chen

is the

Product Manager, Avatars

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Lightspeed Venture Partners	Partner	2012	2017
RECAPP	Founder & CEO	2011	Sep 2014
Meta	Product Manager	2011	2012
Triangulate	Co-founder, VP Product	2009	2011
The Roosevelt Investment Group	Equity Research Analyst	2009	2009
AdMob	Optimization, Engineering	2007	2008
McKinsey & Company	Summer Associate	2008	2008
HSBC	Senior Account Executive - AMT Program	2006	2008
Digital Chocolate	Product Management	2006	2006
Bank of America	Market Strategy Analyst	2005	2005

Board and Advisor Roles

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David Chen

holds

board and advisor roles including

Investor

Clever

Investor

Blockchain.com

, and

Advisor

Spice AI

Clever Investor2014
Blockchain.com Investor2014
Spice AI Advisor
HBS Alumni Angels Association Board Member

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Evariant	Investor	2012	Oct 10, 2017
Elementum	Principal Partner	Dec 2013	Dec 2016

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Florida Institute of Technology Alumni Founded Companies	60,678

Education

David Chen

studied at

Harvard University

, and

Harvard University

Harvard University Ph.DScience, Technology, and Management
Harvard University MSComputer Science
Harvard University BAComputer Science

Recent News and Activity

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Funding Round•

May 20, 2026

Contrario raised

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from Abhijeet Dwivedi and 6 other investors

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News•

Jul 23, 2021