Bobby Chao
Co-Founder & Managing Director @ DFJ DragonFund
San Francisco, United States
Bobby Chao is a Series A investor at DFJ DragonFund in San Francisco focused on Enterprise Software and SaaS. Mr. Chao was born in China and spent his professional career in the U.S. and Asia. He began his career as one of the original founders of Cadence Design Systems and was Cadence’s Vice President and GM of Asia, responsible for sales, marketing and operations in Asia and Japan.After Cadence, he founded and served as chairman and CEO of OCRON, apioneer in the optical character recognition and document management space, until an acquisition by Umax Group. During his tenure with Umax, Mr. Chao was responsible for corporate investment and marketing.He later incubated and served as Chairman and CEO of VA Linux (LNUX). Subsequently, he was an early investor in and board member of AboveNet (ABVT), Oplink (OPLK), Omnivision (OVTI) and NetScreen (JNPR). Mr. Chao co-founded DragonVenture as Chairman in 1999 and since then he has been a dedicated venture capital investor in Greater China.Mr. Chao is currently serving as the chairman and board director of several China and U.S.-based companies. Mr. Chao was the co-founder of DFJ Dragon in 2005 and since then managed DragonFund I and II.He holds an MS in Physics and in Aeronautical Engineering from Georgia State University and Stanford University, respectively.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Bobby Chao invests in
Stages Bobby Chao invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Enterprise Software 2 (33%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- EdTech 1 (17%)
- Software 1 (17%)
- Collaboration 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (33%)
- Seed 1 (17%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
- Series D 1 (17%)
- Series E 1 (17%)
Investments
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| Splashtop delivers next-generation remote access and remote support software and services for enterprises, academic and research institutions, government agencies, small businesses, MSPs, IT departments, and individuals.Its cloud-based, secure, and easily managed remote access approach replaces legacy approaches such as virtual private networks(VPNs) while earning a stunning 93 Net Promoter Score (NPS), a standard for assessing customer satisfaction. Splashtop offers an enterprise-specific service that includes extra features, such as single-sign-on (SSO), with integrations for Microsoft Active Directory, JumpCloud, OKTA, OneLogin, and more. Moreover, companies can integrate Splashtop into enterprise services such as Salesforce, Jira, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and ServiceNow so support teams can help their end-users without having to switch from their help desk tool of choice. More than 30 million users, including those in 85% of Fortune 500 enterprises, enjoy Splashtop products globally.The San Jose, California-headquartered company was co-established by Mark Lee, Philip Sheu, Robert Ha, Thomas Deng, and Alex Lu in 2006. | $50M / Series E / Jan 27, 2021 | ||
| Otter.ai offers a collaborative note-taking app that makes important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. Otter Voice Notes is used by business professionals, journalists, and students to generate rich, easily searched, and shared notes. Otter is based on proprietarytechnologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword/topic extraction. | $10M / Series A / Nov 20, 2017 | ||
| Otter.ai offers a collaborative note-taking app that makes important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable. Otter Voice Notes is used by business professionals, journalists, and students to generate rich, easily searched, and shared notes. Otter is based on proprietarytechnologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword/topic extraction. | $3M / Seed / Sep 15, 2016 | ||
| Splashtop delivers next-generation remote access and remote support software and services for enterprises, academic and research institutions, government agencies, small businesses, MSPs, IT departments, and individuals.Its cloud-based, secure, and easily managed remote access approach replaces legacy approaches such as virtual private networks(VPNs) while earning a stunning 93 Net Promoter Score (NPS), a standard for assessing customer satisfaction. Splashtop offers an enterprise-specific service that includes extra features, such as single-sign-on (SSO), with integrations for Microsoft Active Directory, JumpCloud, OKTA, OneLogin, and more. Moreover, companies can integrate Splashtop into enterprise services such as Salesforce, Jira, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and ServiceNow so support teams can help their end-users without having to switch from their help desk tool of choice. More than 30 million users, including those in 85% of Fortune 500 enterprises, enjoy Splashtop products globally.The San Jose, California-headquartered company was co-established by Mark Lee, Philip Sheu, Robert Ha, Thomas Deng, and Alex Lu in 2006. | $13.5M / Series D / Jun 02, 2010 | ||
| Splashtop delivers next-generation remote access and remote support software and services for enterprises, academic and research institutions, government agencies, small businesses, MSPs, IT departments, and individuals.Its cloud-based, secure, and easily managed remote access approach replaces legacy approaches such as virtual private networks(VPNs) while earning a stunning 93 Net Promoter Score (NPS), a standard for assessing customer satisfaction. Splashtop offers an enterprise-specific service that includes extra features, such as single-sign-on (SSO), with integrations for Microsoft Active Directory, JumpCloud, OKTA, OneLogin, and more. Moreover, companies can integrate Splashtop into enterprise services such as Salesforce, Jira, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and ServiceNow so support teams can help their end-users without having to switch from their help desk tool of choice. More than 30 million users, including those in 85% of Fortune 500 enterprises, enjoy Splashtop products globally.The San Jose, California-headquartered company was co-established by Mark Lee, Philip Sheu, Robert Ha, Thomas Deng, and Alex Lu in 2006. | $15M / Series C / Aug 19, 2008 | ||
| Splashtop delivers next-generation remote access and remote support software and services for enterprises, academic and research institutions, government agencies, small businesses, MSPs, IT departments, and individuals.Its cloud-based, secure, and easily managed remote access approach replaces legacy approaches such as virtual private networks(VPNs) while earning a stunning 93 Net Promoter Score (NPS), a standard for assessing customer satisfaction. Splashtop offers an enterprise-specific service that includes extra features, such as single-sign-on (SSO), with integrations for Microsoft Active Directory, JumpCloud, OKTA, OneLogin, and more. Moreover, companies can integrate Splashtop into enterprise services such as Salesforce, Jira, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and ServiceNow so support teams can help their end-users without having to switch from their help desk tool of choice. More than 30 million users, including those in 85% of Fortune 500 enterprises, enjoy Splashtop products globally.The San Jose, California-headquartered company was co-established by Mark Lee, Philip Sheu, Robert Ha, Thomas Deng, and Alex Lu in 2006. | $10M / Series A / Oct 10, 2007 |
Co-Investors
About DFJ DragonFund
Established in March of 2006, DFJ DragonFund is a joint venture between the internationally recognized venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DragonVenture. We focus our investment on China-centric early and middle stage companies in the technology market. DFJ Dragon Fund currently manages two US Dollar funds “DFJ DragonFund I& DFJ DragonFund II”and one Renminbi fund. Our headquarters is located in Silicon Valley, and have management and consulting offices in Shanghai.
DFJ DragonFund Contacts
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Oliver Li
Partner
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Richard Wang
Partner
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Charles Qu
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Clara Tong
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Jade Du
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What does Bobby Chao invest in?
Bobby Chao invests primarily in Enterprise Software, SaaS and EdTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Bobby Chao closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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