Chris Wang
Angel Investor
Sunnyvale, United States
Chris Wang is a seed investor in Sunnyvale focused on Software and Blockchain. Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon—completed in a record-breaking two years and ten months—and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack forprogramming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Chris Wang invests in
Stages Chris Wang invests in
Countries Chris Wang invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $882k–$9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (50%)
- Blockchain 2 (33%)
- Financial Services 2 (33%)
- IaaS 1 (17%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (67%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (17%)
- Private Equity 1 (17%)
Country
- United States 3 (50%)
- Taiwan 1 (17%)
- Switzerland 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Forge is where gamers go to earn rewards and recognition from their achievements in gaming. | Seed / Sep 17, 2024 | ||
| Castle Finance is a software program that offers funding merchandise and economic equipment as a way to permit DAOs to thrive. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / May 20, 2022 | ||
| CryptoSlam is an aggregator of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) collectibles data from Ethereum, WAX, and FLOW blockchains. | $9M / Seed / Jan 05, 2022 | ||
| Numbers Protocol provides content verification for AI-powered companies and creativity tools. It offers efficient and low-cost digital provenance infrastructures and decentralized storage, which not only enhance trust in digital content but also provide a pathway for innovative content monetization strategies. | $100K / Private Equity / May 15, 2021 | ||
| Sandbox is a global community for young entrepreneurial people. It helps young, entrepreneurial, and passionate individuals who like to develop and build new things.Sandbox’s mission is to identify ambitious young people and to help them become global leaders by connecting them with peers and mentors. Its team includes entrepreneurs, designers,opera singers, investment bankers, academics, and more.Sandbox enables its users to find their professional peers in any field of expertise, in any region, and at any time; build up their social presence in the network and connect online as well as offline; communicate with members across borders and industries in a secure private environment; and receive updates about the network, follow other members, and share ideas of their own.Sandbox was founded by | $2.5M / Seed / May 21, 2019 | ||
| Virtkick lets independent hosting companies increase conversion rates, simplify server management and take on the biggest players. Virtkick is a SaaS cloud management panel that offers simplicity and great user experience for our customers - hosting companies - and their end customers - software developers, software houses, designers etc. | $882K / Seed / Apr 01, 2015 |
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FAQ
What does Chris Wang invest in?
Chris Wang invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-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.
What is Chris Wang's check size?
Chris Wang typically joins rounds of $882k–$9M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chris Wang participates in.
How do I contact Chris Wang?
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When did Chris Wang last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chris Wang closed in Sep 2024. 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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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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