Chris Yin
Angel Investor
San Francisco, United States
Chris Yin is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Internet and Blockchain. Chris is a Principal on Scale’s investing team, focused on investments in intelligent business software, vertical AI companies, and data-first businesses. A veteran Product Manager, he has held senior roles at several successful startups. Prior to joining Scale, Chris was VP Product at Rainforest QA, a QA automation platform where he built and ledthe product, design, support, and community teams and developed the company’s product strategy and roadmap.Chris was also Director of Product Management at Coupa Software, helping to grow the company from a startup to a publicly traded company. He started his career at Xpenser, an expense management product that was acquired by Coupa.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Chris Yin invests in
Stages Chris Yin invests in
Countries Chris Yin invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 1 (25%)
- Blockchain 1 (25%)
- Generative AI 1 (25%)
- Cryptocurrency 1 (25%)
- Financial Services 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (50%)
- Angel 1 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
Country
- United States 2 (50%)
- Singapore 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Crypto's first AI discovery engine | $1M / Angel / Mar 01, 2025 | ||
| Pond is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on creating a comprehensive ecosystem for training Web3 AI models. Pond's approach is quite exciting because it merges two powerful, innovative technologies: AI and Web3. | $7.5M / Seed / Nov 07, 2024 | ||
| GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Nov 03, 2024 | ||
| Echelon is a high-efficiency money market that allows users to borrow and lend assets via non-custodial pools, earning interest and increasing purchasing power through leverage. | $3.5M / Seed / Aug 27, 2024 |
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What does Chris Yin invest in?
Chris Yin invests primarily in Internet, Blockchain and Generative AI startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 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 Yin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Chris Yin closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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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