Eric Chin
General Partner & Alpha Founder @ Crosslink Capital
San Francisco, United States
Eric Chin is a Series A investor at Crosslink Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Eric Chin is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the General Partner of Crosslink Capital and co-founder and president of Alpha. Sekar previously worked at Bay Partners as a General Partner. Eric Chin attended the Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 46
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
Last updated:
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Industries Eric Chin invests in
Stages Eric Chin invests in
Countries Eric Chin invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (20%)
- Enterprise Software 5 (11%)
- Internet 4 (9%)
- Information Technology 4 (9%)
- SaaS 3 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 12 (26%)
- Seed 10 (22%)
- Series B 7 (15%)
- Series C 5 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce. | $13.6M / Seed / May 19, 2025 | ||
| DataStax delivers an open, multi-cloud data stack built on Apache Cassandra™—the world’s most scalable database. The company’s marquee offering is DataStax Astra DB, the industry’s first and only open, multi-cloud serverless database. Built on a modern, microservices-based architecture, Astra DB delivers Cassandra-as-a-service with an unprecedentedcombination of pay-as-you-go data, simplified operations, and the freedom of multi-cloud and open source. With DataStax, any developer or enterprise can now deploy data at massive scale, with 100 percent uptime, for lower cost. Today, nearly 500 of the world’s most demanding enterprises and half of the Fortune 100 rely on DataStax to power modern data apps, including The Home Depot, T-Mobile, US Bank, and Intuit. | $115M / Private Equity / Jun 15, 2022 | ||
| Feedback Loop is the agile research platform for rapid consumer feedback. Farmers Insurance, Humana, Lending Tree, Uber, and Fortune 500 companies trust Feedback Loop to bring the voice of the consumer into critical market decisions. Formerly known as Alpha, Feedback Loop was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York City and backed byCrosslink Capital, Spider Capital, and Calibrate Ventures. | $6.5M / Series A / Feb 01, 2021 | ||
| Step is a financial services company that builds mobile-based banking for teenagers. It helps teens and young adults achieve financial independence and knowledge at an earlier age. The company's mission is to create a bank that gives its users the tools to become smarter with their money and reward them along their financial journey.It wasfounded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $50M / Series B / Dec 02, 2020 | ||
| Stay ahead of workplace risks with workers' comp insurance and smart safety solutions built for industries like parcel delivery, manufacturing, and transportation.With Kinetic, policyholders and self-insured businesses actively predict, prevent, and manage injuries—reducing workplace injuries by up to 60%. Protect your employees and yourbusiness. | $11.3M / Series A / Nov 10, 2020 | ||
| Feedback Loop is the agile research platform for rapid consumer feedback. Farmers Insurance, Humana, Lending Tree, Uber, and Fortune 500 companies trust Feedback Loop to bring the voice of the consumer into critical market decisions. Formerly known as Alpha, Feedback Loop was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York City and backed byCrosslink Capital, Spider Capital, and Calibrate Ventures. | $7.5M / Series A / Apr 01, 2020 | ||
| Molekule provides FDA-cleared air purification devices to address the growing global air purification industry. Its proprietary technology, Photo Electrochemical Oxidation (PECO), works at the molecular level to destroy pollutants. Developed over two decades by research scientists, PECO is an innovative technology that utilizes free radicals thesame radicals used to destroy cancer cells to break down pollutants at a molecular level, including VOCs, bacteria, mold, viruses, and allergens. By using nanotechnology, PECO is able to destroy pollutants 1000 times smaller than the HEPA standard tests for, making Molekule, unlike any other air purifier. | $58M / Series C / Feb 25, 2020 | ||
| Descartes Labs is a technology company that automates the analysis of geospatial data to help organizations answer key questions about the physical. It enables the analysis of earth observation data at scale, providing services and solutions across commodity sourcing and forecasting, resource exploration, and climate resilience. | $20M / Series B / Oct 11, 2019 | ||
| Step is a financial services company that builds mobile-based banking for teenagers. It helps teens and young adults achieve financial independence and knowledge at an earlier age. The company's mission is to create a bank that gives its users the tools to become smarter with their money and reward them along their financial journey.It wasfounded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $22.5M / Series A / Jun 06, 2019 | ||
| Step is a financial services company that builds mobile-based banking for teenagers. It helps teens and young adults achieve financial independence and knowledge at an earlier age. The company's mission is to create a bank that gives its users the tools to become smarter with their money and reward them along their financial journey.It wasfounded in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $3.8M / Seed / Jan 31, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Crosslink Capital
Crosslink, founded in 1989, is a premier early-stage venture capital firm with over $1.3B in assets. Crosslink partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage, across highly dynamic enterprise and consumer technology sectors. Over its history, Crosslink has had the opportunity to partner with defining companies such as Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), BuildingConnected (acquired by ADSK), Chime, Coupa (COUP), DataStax, Molekule, Omniture (acquired by ADBE), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower Retirement), Postmates (acquired by UBER), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Verodin (acquired by FEYE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone) and Weave.
Crosslink Capital Contacts
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Caroline Broder
Principal
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David Silverman
Partner
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Eric Chin
General Partner & Alpha Founder
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Gary Hromadko
Venture Partner
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James Feuille
Venture Partner
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What does Eric Chin invest in?
Eric Chin invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 46 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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The most recent investment recorded for Eric Chin closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 46 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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