# Chris Noble

> Chris Noble is a Series A investor at Bay Partners backing Real Time. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bay Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bay-partners)
- Location: Dallas, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: May 2000
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Chris Noble is a Series A investor at Bay Partners in Dallas focused on Real Time and Communications Infrastructure. Chris is interested in next generation wireless equipment, software and services as well as Internet infrastructure software.Chris brings 16 years of experience in the software industry to his role at Bay. Chris most recently served as Vice President of Marketing at Kana Communications (NASDAQ: KANA). While at Kana, Chris built the productmarketing, marketing communications, and business development organizations and helped set Kana’s corporate strategy.Before Kana, Chris was the Vice President of Product Management and Vice President of Business Development for Geoworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: GWRX). At Geoworks he was instrumental in successfully shifting the company’s focus to the smart phone/wireless communications market. Chris also forged strategic relationships with many of the leading cellular companies in the world, including Nokia and Ericsson.Prior to Geoworks, Chris served in a variety of product and marketing roles at Lotus Development. Chris received his B.A. from Harvard University

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Real Time | 1 | 100% |
| Communications Infrastructure | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jarna | Jarna enables the real-time mobile enterprise through event-based solutions. In contrast with solutions offered by individual device or application vendors, Jarna meets the enterprise customer's needs for a single infrastructure that extends the real-time enterprise to mobile users independent of enterprise application infrastructure, mobiledevice or network. | $6.5M | Series A | May 18, 2000 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- Metropolis Venture Partners — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Bay Partners

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Bay Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded by John Freidenrich in 1976, it has funded over 200 information technology and healthcare businesses.

2 contacts available at Bay Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Noble | Principal | — |
| Stu Phillips | General Partner | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Noble invest in?

Chris Noble invests primarily in Real Time and Communications Infrastructure startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 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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### When did Chris Noble last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Noble closed in May 2000. Shizune tracks 1 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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