Clint Chao
Co-Founder & MD @ Formative Ventures
Palo Alto, United States
Clint Chao is a founding General Partner of Moment Ventures. Moment is a Palo Alto based early stage VC firm investing in the Future of Work: startups bringing technology into and across other industries to transform the business or labor operations in areas such as logistics, food, oil & gas, education, healthcare, construction and more. Clinthas invested in companies including Flowspace, Pod Foods, Swing Education, Validere, TARA AI, Netsil (acq by Nutanix), Skyward (acq by Verizon), and Payable (acq by Stripe).Prior to Moment, Clint was a co-founding Managing Director at Formative Ventures, an early-stage VC firm. During his time at Formative, Clint invested a third of the fund's capital in early-stage technology startups, focusing on software infrastructure, web services, cloud computing applications and advanced semiconductors. Clint's investment and board leadership experience include Mashery (acq by Intel), SOASTA (acq by Akamai), Silicon Clocks (acquired by Silicon Labs), Vungle (acq by Blackstone) and Zyray Wireless (acquired by Broadcom). Clint is an experienced technology executive who brings more than 20 years of start-up operating experience including marketing, sales and business development to Formative Ventures. Prior to co-founding Formative Ventures, Clint served as the first Vice President of Marketing, Sales and Business Development at SkyStream Networks (acquired by Tandberg TV), a leading provider of video routing solutions. Under his leadership, SkyStream became the worldwide leader in MPEG routing solutions to the broadcast, networking and enterprise markets. Prior to joining SkyStream, Clint served as Senior Director of Marketing at C-Cube Microsystems where he was responsible for marketing for the PC Division, a group he co-founded and grew to run rates exceeding $50M in sales annually. Clint began his tenure at C-Cube as the first Salesperson for the company, where he created the company’s sales representation network around the country. While there, C-Cube became the dominant supplier of digital video and imaging compression chips to the consumer electronics, computing and communications markets. Before joining C-Cube, Clint held numerous sales and sales management positions at Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector, where he was recognized as one of the company’s top salespeople. Clint earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
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Industries Clint Chao invests in
Stages Clint Chao invests in
Countries Clint Chao invests in
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Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$3.3M
- Series B
- $6.4M–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (15%)
- SaaS 3 (12%)
- Analytics 3 (12%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (12%)
- Information Technology 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (27%)
- Series B 4 (15%)
- Funding Round 4 (15%)
- Series A 3 (12%)
- Series C 2 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Blazel is an AI-powered enterprise platform automating executive communications, personal branding, and B2B thought leadership content. | $10.3M / Pre-Seed / Jul 16, 2025 | ||
| Twine is a platform for deep networking, designed for virtual events and remote teams. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 21, 2022 | ||
| Twine is a platform for deep networking, designed for virtual events and remote teams. | $3.3M / Seed / Jun 17, 2021 | ||
| Laylo powers drops for some of the world’s biggest creators and brands. Drops have become the predominant marketing strategy for merch, tickets and content and we're building the leading CRM to power them. The platform combines landing pages, messaging, link tracking, and more to empower musicians, live events, promoters, and brands with thetools to drive more sales and streams around their most important moments.We’re building a next-generation marketing platform complete with drop campaigns, cross-platform messaging, landing pages, and link tracking –giving creators the power to own and activate their fanbase. | $3M / Seed / Jun 07, 2021 | ||
| Merri is revolutionizing how events are designed, planned, and booked in the digital age. We are streamlining the historically non-digital live events industry through a first-of-its-kind interactive 3D platform. Our integrated workflows and collaboration tools bring venues, vendors, and event hosts onto a single platform, creating the onlycentralized platform for information, processes, and tools across the entire events ecosystem. We believe that planning an event shouldn't take away from the joy of whatever it is you're celebrating. Whether a wedding, non-profit gala, annual meeting, or a brand activation, Merri streamlines all of the decision making that goes into planning a flawless event — from the venue, to the menu. | Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | ||
| Advekit is a healthcare platform used to make the process of finding a mental health support therapist easy, empowering, and encouraging. The platform helps patients find the right therapist and use their insurance to pay for therapy. It improves access to quality treatment and helps individuals better utilize their mental health benefits andoffers a sliding-scale fee structure, which is a variable rate based on a person's ability to pay for treatment, thus helping users in simplifying the process of finding therapists based on their needs, availability, and insurance. | $2.6M / Seed / Jun 09, 2020 | ||
| Pod Foods is a logistics and technology enabled B2B marketplace, connecting brands directly with retailers and built for the new era of grocery. We work with growing brands of all sizes as well as grocery retailers, including both traditional retailers and online delivery solutions. | $3M / Seed / Jul 03, 2019 | ||
| SOASTA is a performance analytics platform that enables digital business owners to gain unprecedented and continuous performance insights into their real user experience on mobile and web devices in real-time and at scale. With more than 10 million tests performed and more than 100 billion user experiences measured, SOASTA is the digitalperformance expert trusted by industry‐leading companies, including Experian, Gilt Groupe, Hallmark, Intuit, Microsoft, and Netflix. It was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with additional offices in the United States and London. | $30M / Debt Financing / Mar 24, 2016 | ||
| Every day in America, they waste 3X more food than there are mouths to feed. It is not a lack of food that is the issue, but rather an ineffective distribution of that food. Hunger is not a scarcity problem, it's a logistics problem. For the first time ever, they can effectively donate prepared and highly perishable food to those who need itwhen they need it most. Copia is a for-profit company that has built technology allowing food donors (e.g., food management companies like corporate cafeterias, universities, hospitals, grocers, caterers etc.) to easily request pickups of their surplus food, have it matched, and safely delivered to non-profits in need. With Copia, partnering businesses can now seamlessly access significant tax savings, dramatically reduce food waste through data and analytics on surplus, and remove CO2 from the atmosphere, all while feeding the neediest in their community.We have saved nearly 5M pounds of edible food from ending up in the landfills and provided savings of over $14M for the businesses and nonprofits we serve. We operate nationwide and are on our way to feeding over 4 million people with great food that would have otherwise been wasted! | $3.1M / Seed / Mar 22, 2016 | ||
| Twin Prime makes mobile apps fast. Performance in mobile depends on a variety of factors such as the wireless network technology, device models, operating system software and even the nature of the app itself. This makes the problem incredibly hard and complex. Twin Prime uses machine learning to make sense of these factors and delivers content toapps in the most optimal and quickest way. | $9.5M / Series A / Mar 18, 2015 | ||
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About Formative Ventures
A Menlo Park-based early-stage technology venture capital firm launched by partners with firsthand operating experience in growing start-ups into successful companies. Formative Ventures invests in all areas of technology including the communications, mobile, and internet sectors.
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Brooke Seawell
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Clint Chao
Co-Founder & MD
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What does Clint Chao invest in?
Clint Chao invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series B 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.
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Clint Chao typically joins rounds of $2M–$3.3M at Seed and $6.4M–$11M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Clint Chao participates in.
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When did Clint Chao last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Clint Chao closed in Jul 2025. 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.
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