# Eric Chin

> Eric Chin is a Series A investor at Crosslink Capital backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Crosslink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crosslink-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericchin1/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/chindogger

Eric Chin is a Series A investor at Crosslink Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Eric Chin is the General Partner and Alpha Founder of Crosslink Capital. He previously worked at TelASIC as a Founder. Eric Chin attended Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 19% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 12% |
| SaaS | 3 | 7% |
| Internet | 3 | 7% |
| Analytics | 3 | 7% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 29% |
| Seed | 9 | 21% |
| Series B | 7 | 17% |
| Series C | 5 | 12% |
| Series D | 1 | 2% |

10 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Barndoor AI | 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 | 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 |  |
| DataStax | 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 | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| Feedback Loop | 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 | 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 |  |
| Kinetic | Kinetic creates wearable devices and cloud-based software that reduces workplace injuries, for the industrial workforce.REFLEX, the company's product is a device that employs analytics to provide reminders and notifications to workers once the device detects a high-risk motion such as unsafe postures that could cause injuries in theconstruction, warehouses, and factories environment. It can also be used as a sensor that detects COVID-19 exposure.In 2014, Haytham Elhawary and Aditya Bansal established Kinetic in New York, New York. |  | Series A | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| Feedback Loop | 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 | 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 |  |
| Step | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Hack VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-vc) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Triangle Peak Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/triangle-peak-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Translink Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/translink-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ACME Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acme-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Crosslink Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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 topartner 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.

5 contacts available at Crosslink Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Caroline Broder | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-broder |
| David Silverman | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-silverman |
| Eric Chin | General Partner & Alpha Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-chin |
| Gary Hromadko | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-hromadko |
| James Feuille | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-feuille |

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## FAQ

### What does Eric Chin invest in?

Eric Chin invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Eric Chin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eric Chin closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 42 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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