Shuo Chen

About

Former founder, now investing in founders and teaching founders at Stanford and Berkeley. Former Air Cadet, voice actress, Guinness World Record pipa (Chinese guitar) player and gardening geek. --- Shuo Chen is a General Partner at IOVC, where she invests in early stage startups in Silicon Valley with a focus on future of work and enterprise/SaaS. She is also Faculty at UC Berkeley and Lecturer at Stanford, where she teaches entrepreneurship. Shuo is appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to serve as 1 of 13 voting members on California's Mental Health Commission, which includes overseeing ~$10 billion annually in state budget and advising the Governor or the Legislature on mental health policy. In her venture role, Shuo has invested in companies now acquired by Goldman Sachs, Ford, Caterpillar, Binance and Dialpad, as well as now unicorns including Boom, Checkr, Grubmarket, Instacart and Rescale. She has helped portfolio companies close deals with Amazon, Apple, Google, Mercedes-Benz and NASA among others, as well as scaled portfolio companies into Europe and Asia. Prior, Shuo worked at Goldman Sachs in investment banking, where she worked with clients including Alibaba and

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