# Chip Hazard

> Chip Hazard is a seed investor at Scitara (Boston) backing Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software. See 84 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Scitara](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scitara)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 84
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chiphazard
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/chazard
- Website: http://www.hazardlights.net
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cmhazard

Chip Hazard is a seed investor at Scitara in Boston focused on Software and SaaS. Full-time VC who thinks infrastructure software and AI is hip, part-time family Uber driver, photographer, and dogcatcher. Co-Founder and Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 20% |
| SaaS | 10 | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 10 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 11% |

83 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 20% |
| Series A | 10 | 12% |
| Series B | 10 | 12% |
| Series C | 8 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 8 | 10% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 36 | 43% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 1% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cohesive | Cohesive is the Business AI Operating System designed to transform fragmented workflows into streamlined, actionable processes. | $4.5M | Seed | Dec 23, 2025 |  |
| VoiceRun | VoiceRun is a software platform that offers AI voice application services. | $5.5M | Seed | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| Arcade.dev | Arcade.dev is an AI tool-calling platform that enables users to connect AI with various integrations, allowing it to act on their behalf through authenticated tools, facilitating tasks such as managing emails, files, calendars, and APIs, while providing pre-built connectors and a custom SDK for users to create their own assistants. The platformsupports seamless interactions between AI and existing workflows, streamlining processes for sales teams and sales development representatives, enhancing productivity by automating routine tasks, and simplifying the management of multiple applications in one environment. Additionally, Arcade.dev offers comprehensive documentation and support to assist users in maximizing the functionality of their AI integrations. | $12M | Seed | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Sesame Sustainability | Sesame Sustainability is a SAAS company that offers industrial decarbonization platform for modeling, optimization, and analysis. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Cohesive | Cohesive is the Business AI Operating System designed to transform fragmented workflows into streamlined, actionable processes. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2024 |  |
| TrojAI | TrojAI provides a comprehensive AI security platform to protect AI/ML applications and infrastructure. The best-in-class platform empowers enterprises to safeguard applications from real-time threats with TrojAI's firewall. Penetration test models and remediation guidance delivered prior to deployment further mitigate risk. Built by datascientists and cybersecurity experts, TrojAI meets the needs of the largest enterprises with scalability, performance, and extensibility. | $5.8M | Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Metaplane | Metaplane offers data observability products to enable organizations to trust their data. Data teams from companies like Bose, Sotheby's, Hightouch, GoFundMe, and Ramp use its observability platform to save engineering time and increase trust in data by understanding when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it — before an executivemessages them.They do this by automatically monitoring modern data stacks from warehouses to BI dashboards, identifying normal behavior (e.g. lineage, volumes, distributions, freshness), then alerting the right people when things go wrong.The company is founded by MIT + HubSpot alums and backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Flybridge, and the founders of Okta, HubSpot, Lookout, Drift, and Clearbit. | $15.6M | Series A | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| NuMind | NuMind allows users to design unique machine learning models to automatically interpret text. Ideal for sentiment analysis, topic detection, content control, and more. There is no need for special knowledge. | $3M | Seed | Mar 30, 2023 |  |
| trackd | trackd is revolutionizing vulnerability and patch management by focusing on the fundamental bottleneck for slow patching: fear of the unknown. In addition to a robust suite of conventional patch management functionality from vulnerability correlation to patch installation, trackd collects patching experience data from every patch applied using theplatform, anonymizes that data, and shares it with all other users. The patent-pending vulnerability remediation platform provides insight into how patches have affected systems previously, helping operators identify which patches might be disruptive when applied in their environment, and which are safe to designate for auto-patching. | $3.4M | Seed | Feb 28, 2023 |  |
| Blaze.tech | Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 11, 2023 |  |

10 of 84 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-bridge-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Union Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/union-square-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Brown Brothers Harriman](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brown-brothers-harriman) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Scitara

VC Fund · Marlborough, United States

Scitara is a global provider of laboratory-specific, cloud-based software solutions for the life sciences and other science-based industries. Their solutions are powering the digital transformation of scientific laboratories by enabling them with modern lab data connectivity infrastructure and tools to accelerate science.​

3 contacts available at Scitara.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ajit Nagral | Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajit-nagral |
| Chip Hazard | Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chip-hazard |
| Geoff Gerhardt | Co-Founder and CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoff-gerhardt |

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## FAQ

### What does Chip Hazard invest in?

Chip Hazard invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 84 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 Chip Hazard last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chip Hazard closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 84 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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