# Chris Nguyen

> Chris Nguyen is a seed investor at Mezmo (San Francisco Bay Area) backing Software and SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mezmo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/logdna)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophernguyen

Chris Nguyen is a seed investor at Mezmo in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and SaaS. Chris Nguyen is the Co-Founder and CEO at LogDNA.Prior to founding LogDNA, he founded two other companies: TeamSave, which is a white label e-Commerce platform that provides sales, technology, and customer support for the social commerce and digital coupons space for two eBay Classified Group portfolio companies and JobLoft, which was acquired byonTargetjobs. Chris also held various leadership positions at onTargetjobs ranging from Vice President of Product, Vice President of E-Commerce and General Manager of online personals site. Chris received his Bachelors of Commerce degree from Ryerson University with a major in Information Technology Management. He has been recognized through many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: Impact.org’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year; and received Ryerson University’s Isadore Sharp Alumni Achievement Awards. He was a board member of Ryerson University’s Accelerator Seed Fund from 2012-2014.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $320k–$1.3M |
| Series A | $7.5M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 60% |
| SaaS | 5 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 40% |
| B2B | 2 | 20% |
| FinTech | 2 | 20% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 60% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hubble Network | a Satellite network connecting billions of bluetooth devices. GLOBALLY. | $20M | Series A | May 29, 2023 |  |
| Yess | Yess is an all-in-one operating system for freelancers and agencies to automate business and financial operations. | $2M | Seed | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Beem | Qualified active working professionals including gig workers join and access Line's tools, services, safety nets to save, spend, plan better and protect themselves against financial uncertainties via the Line iOS and Android apps. Money Service Businesses, Insurers, Teclos, Retailers, and Medical Market Places that these professionals activelyuse, embed line in their consumer channels to increase transaction volume and prevent non-payment, as well as in their business process to eliminate fraud, detect payment, and other lapses ahead of time. | $7M | Seed | May 02, 2022 |  |
| Woosh Air | Woosh is a tech company focused in improving the world's indoor air quality | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| Hookdeck | Hookdeck is a fast and reliable event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services – external providers (e.g. Shopify), internal endpoints (e.g. APIs), and any combination thereof.Configure Hookdeck platform resources and features such as event routing,filters, and transformations. And let Hookdeck automatically retry failed events for painless error recovery.Our developer tooling enables teams to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence. | $2.7M | Seed | Apr 12, 2022 |  |
| Architect.io | DevOps-as-a-Service is our unique take on continuous delivery that aims to do more than deploy a single microservice to a container platform. Armed with an understanding of your system's dependency graph, Architect automates the deployment of distributed services, configures secure network policies, and enables on-demand stacks across all ofyour environments. DevOps-as-a-Service unlocks the potential of cloud-native developers and by supporting our over-worked and under-staffed DevOps teams. | $5M | Seed | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| Supernova | Supernova harnesses the power of AI and design to enable wealth managers, investors and financial advisors to leverage data for better allocation, client-centric experiences and compliance with (new) regulation. This way, we are illuminating the sustainable investing universe for a new generation of owners. | $2M | Angel | Jan 28, 2022 |  |
| Hookdeck | Hookdeck is a fast and reliable event gateway for receiving, processing, and delivering asynchronous messages. It centralizes and streamlines communication between services – external providers (e.g. Shopify), internal endpoints (e.g. APIs), and any combination thereof.Configure Hookdeck platform resources and features such as event routing,filters, and transformations. And let Hookdeck automatically retry failed events for painless error recovery.Our developer tooling enables teams to build, deploy, operate, and observe their event-driven applications with confidence. | $320K | Pre-Seed | Sep 07, 2021 |  |
| Embrace | Embrace is the only user-focused observability platform that ties technical performance to end-user impact. Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides Real User Monitoring (RUM) across mobile and web, giving engineering teams the visibility and context they need to prioritize and resolve issues faster, optimize performance, and deliver exceptionaldigital experiences.Embrace is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and contributes to several OpenTelemetry Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Embrace counts AllTrails, Amazon, Cameo, GOAT, Hyatt, The New York Times, and many more as customers. Supported by NEA, AV8 (Allianz), Greycroft, and Eniac, Embrace is a YCombinator (YC Growth) company based in Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Buenos Aires, and London. | $7.5M | Series A | Dec 12, 2019 |  |
| Additor | Additor is an information technology company that provides a web-based platform that helps companies, organizations, and businesses to collect and organize their team's scattered knowledge. Its platform utilizes SaaS, Data, and productivity tools. |  | Seed |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ti-platform-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Matrix](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Transpose Platform Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/transpose-platform-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [11.2 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/112capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Abstraction Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abstraction-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Mezmo

VC Fund · Mountain View, United States

Mezmo, formerly LogDNA, is an observability platform to manage and take action on your data. It ingests, processes, and routes log data to fuel enterprise-level application development and delivery, security, and compliance use cases.

5 contacts available at Mezmo.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andre Elizondo | Head of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-elizondo |
| Ashka Vakil | Sr. Director, Product Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashka-vakil |
| Caitlin Haberberger | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caitlin-haberberger |
| Chris Nguyen | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-nguyen |
| Joe Maddalone | Senior Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-maddalone |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Nguyen invest in?

Chris Nguyen invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chris Nguyen's check size?

Chris Nguyen typically joins rounds of $2M–$7M at Seed, $320k–$1.3M at Pre-Seed and $7.5M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chris Nguyen participates in.

### When did Chris Nguyen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Nguyen closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 10 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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