# Chris Yeh

> Chris Yeh is a seed investor at Wasabi Ventures (Palo Alto) backing SaaS and EdTech. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Wasabi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wasabi-ventures)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisyeh
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/chrisyeh
- Website: http://www.chrisyeh.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HBSchris

Chris Yeh is a seed investor at Wasabi Ventures in Palo Alto focused on SaaS and EdTech. Chris Yeh was on the founding team of pioneering Internet companies such as United Online Services (Nasdaq: UNTD) and Merrill Lynch’s Intelligent Technologies Group. He has founded, advised, or invested in dozens of startups, including Ustream and PBworks.Chris is a much-quoted thought leader in the field of marketing and entrepreneurship;his research and publications have been incorporated into the Harvard Business School curriculum, while his projects have received press coverage in Fortune, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. He writes a popular blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital, Adventures in Capitalism and contributes to blogs such as TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Chris holds two degrees from Stanford University, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar (High Distinction).You can reach Chris by e-mail at chris@wasabiventures.com and follow him on Twitter or AngelList.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $340k–$20M |
| Angel | $350k–$700k |
| Pre-Seed | $1.3M–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 4 | 15% |
| EdTech | 3 | 12% |
| Mobile | 3 | 12% |
| Software | 3 | 12% |
| Advertising | 3 | 12% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 69% |
| Angel | 3 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 69% |
| Singapore | 2 | 8% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| South Korea | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LearnTube | CareerNinja provides upskilling and job-oriented courses for college graduates. |  | Seed | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Box Ladder | BoxLadder is a global fundraising platform for startups. From idea to IPO and beyond, the company connects entrepreneurs with capital by connecting and matching the right investors. The back office is responsible for finding the best investors, creating an investor deck, conducting due diligence, and drafting a term sheet. |  | Angel | Nov 22, 2024 |  |
| LearnTube | CareerNinja provides upskilling and job-oriented courses for college graduates. | $2M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Fêtefully | Fêtefully is an online platform integrating human talent and AI-driven functions to provide couples with affordable and personalized wedding & event planning services. Couples save money on professional planning, while planners make money in their spare time. | $1.3M | Seed | Jun 14, 2022 |  |
| Pressto | Pressto AI is a whole new way for schools to teach writing and for students to learn writing & thinking. These skills apply across all subject areas for all types of writing. For everything kids write in & out of school, Pressto uses “Blocks” which represent the different components for a particular writing purpose. In education terms, thisis ’scaffolding.’ | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 18, 2022 |  |
| Fêtefully | Fêtefully is an online platform integrating human talent and AI-driven functions to provide couples with affordable and personalized wedding & event planning services. Couples save money on professional planning, while planners make money in their spare time. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| Next Gen Foods | Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists. | $20M | Seed | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| TiNDLE | TiNDLE is a food-tech business which provides plant based chicken delicacy. | $20M | Seed | Jul 13, 2021 |  |
| One Month | At One Month, we teach beginners how to code HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python. We know the two most difficult things about learning to code are starting and motivation, so we’ve designed our courses for true beginners. From day one of all our courses, you will build something awesome! Over 60,000 students have used One Month’s computerprogramming courses to launch their side hustles, level up their careers, and build things they couldn’t even imagine before. Our courses combine video tutorials, human support, and the opportunity to build real-world projects from day one.One Month students have gone on to work at top companies including Google, Bloomberg L.P., Facebook, and Salesforce. Our coding curriculum is used and trusted by Stripe, Columbia University, and Y Combinator. Are you a non-technical founder? Head of sales? Marketing team member? HR professional? We have a course called Programming for Non-Programmers that is just for you! Jump into any of our upcoming online coding bootcamps, and this time next month you’ll have the confidence to say “I know how to code.” | $1.9M | Seed | Jun 30, 2015 |  |
| Immediately | Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer. | $400K | Seed | Mar 01, 2014 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Wasabi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wasabi-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bits x Bites](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bits-x-bites) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gurtin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gurtin-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hinge Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hinge-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Wasabi Ventures

VC Fund · Manchester, United States

From publishing to healthcare IT to CRM, Wasabi Ventures has planned, implemented, and maintained solutions for many emerging companies over the last decade. Their professionals have a proven history of producing results in each of the following business areas: • Technology and Development • Sales • Product Marketing • Fundraising• Business Planning Their team includes experts in every functional area that matters to a startup as well as industry experts. Each of their partners specializes in different areas. While each of their partners can call upon the expertise of the entire firm, if you really need help in a specific area they will dedicate additional staff to your company.

5 contacts available at Wasabi Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Yeh | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-yeh |
| Jeka Kiselyov | Engineering Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeka-kiselyov |
| Ron Emrick | Director of Engineering Innovation | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-emrick |
| Tom Kuegler | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tk-kuegler |
| Alex Hollis | Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) Emeritus | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-hollis |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Yeh invest in?

Chris Yeh invests primarily in SaaS, EdTech and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 26 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 Yeh's check size?

Chris Yeh typically joins rounds of $340k–$20M at Seed, $350k–$700k at Angel and $1.3M–$1.5M at Pre-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 Yeh participates in.

### When did Chris Yeh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Yeh closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 26 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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