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Wesley Chan

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at FPV Ventures

Jackson, Wyoming, United States · 2 connections

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About

Wesley Chan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at FPV Ventures, a $525M early stage fund with nearly $1B AUM that backs and serves mission-driven founders. Named to the Forbes Midas List in 2024 and 2025, Wesley is an early investor in five $10B+ "decacorns," his most notable being Canva, where he led the Series A and C rounds, and is worth north of $40B. He founded Google Analytics and Google Voice and holds 19 US patents for his work in creating and buildling Google AdWords. Among Wesley's 20+ unicorn investments, he wrote the first or very early check into fintech leader Plaid, logistics powerhouse Flexport, payroll leader Gusto, drone delivery innovator Zipline, enterprise software unicorn Lucid, and stock trading platform RobinHood (NASDAQ: HOOD)-- and led investments in Canva, AngelList, Carta, Guild, Sourcegraph, Dialpad, RocketLawyer, Orca Bio, Checkr, CultureAmp, HyperScience, Astranis, Formation Bio, and Ring (acq. AMZN). Business Insider named Wesley to their Top 100 Seed Investors list for two consecutive years in 2022 & 2021. Wesley was also a founding General Partner at GV (Google Ventures). He led investments and/or held board seats in Xilis, AngelList, Opsera, P

Experience

Co-Founder & Managing PartnerFPV Ventures
Feb 2022
Lead Series A & Lead Series C Investor, Board MemberCanva Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Oct 2015
Lead Series B Investor & Board MemberMonarch Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Apr 2025
Advisor & InvestorFlexport
Sep 2013
Board Observer & Lead Series A InvestorHyperScience Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jun 2017
Board Observer & Series C InvestorDialpad Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Mar 2015
Board Member & Lead Series A InvestorDialpad Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2010 to Jan 2014
Board Member & Lead Series A InvestorOpsera Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Mar 2021 to Apr 2025
Board Member & Lead Series A InvestorCulture Amp Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Feb 2015 to Jan 2025
Board Member & Lead Series B InvestorX1 Card Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jul 2022 to Aug 2023
Board Member, People and Compensation Committee Member, & Lead Series C InvestorGuild Education Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Apr 2018 to Sep 2022
Board Member & Chair of the Compensation CommitteeFocusVision Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Feb 2017 to Apr 2021
Board Member & Lead Series Seed InvestorTurvo Inc. (acq. Lineage) Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Apr 2015 to Oct 2020
Board Member & Lead Series B InvestorApteligent (acq. VMW) Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2013 to Jan 2014
Board Member & Lead Series B InvestorAngelList
Jan 2013 to Jan 2014
Board Observer & Series B InvestoriPerian (acq. BMS) Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2011 to Jan 2014
Advisor & InvestorZipline
Aug 2014
Founder, Google VoiceGoogle
Jan 2006 to Jan 2009
Group Product ManagerGoogle
Jan 2002 to Jan 2009
Founder, Google AnalyticsGoogle
Jan 2002 to Jan 2006
Chief of Staff & Technical Advisor to Co-Founder Sergey BrinGoogle
Jan 2002 to Jan 2006
Senior Software Engineer, Research Lead at HP LabsHP Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Jan 2001 to Jan 2002
Program ManagerMicrosoft
Jan 1999 to Jan 2001
Research AssistantMIT Media Lab
Jan 1998 to Jan 2001

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
2000 to 2001
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science
1996 to 2000