Wesley Chan

FPV Ventures is a $525M early stage fund with nearly $1B in AUM that backs and serves mission-driven founders. FPV is an investor in Canva, Flexport, Guild Education, XOps, Enveda, Trialspark, and Strand Theraputics. 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.

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.

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.

I was one of the first checks and an early advisor to the top logistics and freight company in Silicon Valley.

Zipline delivers urgently needed vaccines and medical supplies via fixed-wing autonomous drones.

HyperScience has best-in-class AI for automating the intake of unstructured documents.

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.

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 was a member of the Board of Directors.

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.

X1 Card (acq. by Robinhood) is one of the US's top credit cards smartest credit card with smart credit limits, an unparalleled rewards program, and automated features that make your life easier. The company was acquired by Robinhood in Aug. 2023 I led the Series B round and was a member of the Board of Directors.

Guild Education provides a free (or nearly free) college education as an employee benefit to many of the 64M front line workers in America, including employees at Walmart, Disney, Discover Financial, Lowes Home Improvement, and Chipotle. I led the Series C round and am a member of the Board of Directors and the People & Compensation Committee.

I've led investments in more than 36 companies and was a board member/observer at Canva, Guild Education, CultureAmp, Dialpad, Hyperscience, and Opsera. I also invested in Ring ($1B+ exit to AMZN), Flexport, Gusto, Orca Bio, Trialspark, Sourcegraph, Pendulum Theraputics, Spring Discovery, Zipline, Astranis, Ascend.io, Skip the Dishes (exit to JustEats), and YES (exit to TWTR).

I chaired the compensation committee and was the independent member of the Board of Directors at FocusVision, the leading marketing and consumer insights solutions provider. (FocusVision was acq. by Forsta and Press-Ganey in 2022)

Turvo (acq. by Lineage) is building a new generation trucking and transportation management platform. I led the Series Seed round and was a member of the Board of Directors.

My angel investments includes: Carta ($7B+), Flexport (first check, now worth $8B+), Checkr ($3B+), Zipline ($3B+), Dialpad ($2B+), and Squanda (exit to Credit Karma/Intuit).

I led the Series B round and was a member of the Board of Directors.

I led the Series B round and was a member of the Board of Directors.

Life science startup that had a stem cell drug discovery platform which exited to Bristol-Myers Squibb. I co-led the Series B round and was a board observer.

I led the Series A round and was a member of the Board of Directors.

I founded and led the seed investing program and was the first institutional check into fintech unicorn Plaid ($13B+), HR platform Gusto ($10B+), stock trading platform RobinHood (NASDAQ: HOOD), and enterprise unicorn Lucid ($3B+). My other investments: DialPad ($1B+), Angelist ($1B+), Parse (exit to FB), Vungle (exit to Blackstone for $750m), iPierian (exit to BMS), HelloSign (exit to DBX), and Aptelligent (exit to VMWare). I sourced Climate Corp ($1B+ exit to MON), and Foundation Medicine (3B+ exit to Roche).

Led the acquisition and integration for GrandCentral, Gizmo, & other telecom assets to build out and launch Google Voice. Led internal teams to build out and launch Google Voice. Negotiated and implemented carrier interconnects worldwide to provide a low-cost international termination. Assembled and coached a highly entrepreneurial and technical team to build a highly disruptive online voice services. Lobbied FCC, Congress, and state telecom authorities to ensure product could launch and grow. Google Voice is one of the largest voice services by minutes used in the US today.

I built Google's early advertising products including AdWords and AdSense. Awarded 18 US patents and received Google's highest honor (Google Founders Award) for building many of Google's earliest and most impactful products (including Google Toolbar--which led to Google Chrome--and Google Analytics).

Led the acquisition and integration of Urchin, MeasureMap, & other assets to build out Google Analytics. Assembled and led team for four years to launch Google’s largest (by QPS) service to date. Launched the product in 14 languages and 36 countries. Google Analytics is the largest web analytics service by market share today with millions of users.

I was the first Chief of Staff and Technical Advisor to co-Founder Sergey Brin.

Led a research effort at HP Labs in building an early platform for connecting the physical (people, places, & things) with the virtual (web presence and online services). Published several HP Labs papers and awarded a US Patent for building out HP's early Internet of Things (IoT) efforts.

I helped to ship Microsoft Windows 2000 as part of the Release Management team. I also helped to build Microsoft’s .NET mobile developers framework.

Built and hacked a lot of (cool) things.