# Andy Chen

> Andy Chen is a seed investor at Persona backing Information Technology and Software. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Persona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/persona-188f)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/atchen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/andychen
- Website: https://www.coatue.com/

Andy Chen is a General Partner at Coatue Ventures, an early-stage venture fund within Coatue Management. He is an investor in Persona, Figma, Scale, Chime, Workstream, and many others. Prior to Coatue, Andy was an operating partner at Kleiner Perkins and was responsible for driving the firm’s executive recruiting strategy. Before joining KPCB,Andy was an analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covering science, technology and weapons. In this role, he provided intelligence to senior U.S. policymakers, including the president of the United States. Earlier in his career, Andy helped build and lead the contingency recruiting practice at Riviera Partners, a leading recruiting firm that specializes in building teams for high-growth startups.Andy earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and applied plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 8 | 35% |
| Software | 6 | 26% |
| FinTech | 4 | 17% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 13% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 35% |
| Series A | 6 | 26% |
| Series C | 3 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Persona | Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, which brings trust to online interactions and helps them with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailoredflows that cover any use case. It handles complex collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information to stay focused on building products. | $200M | Series D | Apr 30, 2025 |  |
| Figma | Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together. Figma helps the entire product team create, test, and ship better designs, faster. Whether the company tries to consolidate tools, get more eyes on your work, or collaborate across time zones, Figma boosts creative productivity while keeping everyone on the same page. On a mission tomake design accessible to all, Figma is helping companies like Airbnb, Slack, and Microsoft with how they design. | $700M | Secondary Market | Jul 17, 2024 |  |
| Verse | Verse helps large energy buyers Connect, Contain, and Control their global power portfolios: connect to the grid faster leveraging flexibility; contain energy cost and risk with real-time analytics and strategic procurement; and control assets to maximize portfolio value through real-time optimization. Verse team blends deep energy-market expertisewith modern software engineering and product design to deliver usable, scalable tools to manage power costs and risks. | $20.5M | Series A | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Zaros Finance | Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives. | $1.8M | Seed | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Tome | Magical Tome specializes in the computer software development business. The company is based in San Francisco, California. | $43M | Series B | Feb 22, 2023 |  |
| Meticulous | Meticulous is a tool for detecting bugs in web applications. The company was founded in 2021. | $4M | Seed | Feb 06, 2023 |  |
| Jetpack | Jetpack is a technology agency that transforms python code into a scalable cloud backend. | $10M | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Pocus | Pocus is a revenue data platform for go-to-market teams to analyze, visualize, and action data about their prospects and customers without needing engineers. Pocus helps companies like Miro, Webflow, Loom, and Superhuman focus their sales and success teams on the highest priority opportunities by surfacing insights at the right moment so reps cantake quick action. Pocus gives you a 360-degree view of product usage, empowering you to act on insights and fill your funnel efficiently. Sales teams save 10+ hours/week digging through data to surface millions in new revenue opportunities. | $23M | Series A | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Magical | Magical is an agentic AI platform that fully automates complex workflows in just one week. Put your IT, accounting, healthcare admin, and back office on autopilot with AI employees that use human-like decision-making and best-in-class reliability of over 90% on complete end-to-end processes. Join 950,000+ users at 100,000+ companies—including DHL,WebPT, Uber, Just Eat, and CV3—who are getting more done with Magical. | $35M | Series A | Jun 06, 2022 |  |
| Reliable Robotics | Reliable Robotics provides advanced automation systems for aviation companies. The company was founded by Juerg Frefel and Robert Rose in 2017 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. | $100M | Series C | Oct 14, 2021 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Persona

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, which brings trust to online interactions and helps them with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailoredflows that cover any use case. It handles complex collecting, verifying, and managing sensitive personal information to stay focused on building products.

5 contacts available at Persona.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kengo Hamasaki | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kengo-hamasaki |
| Andy Chen | Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-chen-2 |
| Charles Yeh | Co-Founder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-yeh |
| Christie Kim | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christie-kim |
| Daniel Y. Lee | Identity Solutions | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-y-lee |

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## FAQ

### What does Andy Chen invest in?

Andy Chen invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Andy Chen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andy Chen closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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