# Ethel Chen

> Ethel Chen is a Series A investor at Sentinel Global (San Francisco) backing SaaS and Software. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sentinel Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sentinel-global)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Nov 2016
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ethelchen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ethelchen
- Website: http://www.bridgeforum.io
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ethelchen

Ethel Chen is a Series A investor at Sentinel Global in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Ethel Chen is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the General Partner of Sentinel Global. Ethel previously worked at CPP Investments as a Managing Director. Ethel Chen attended Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Software | 2 | 22% |
| Analytics | 2 | 22% |
| Health Care | 2 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 22% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 11% |
| Series E | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CareCloud | CareCloud provides cloud-based revenue cycle management (RCM), practice management (PM), electronic health record (EHR), and patient engagement solutions for medical groups. It helps clients increase profitability, streamline workflow, and improve patient care nationwide. They provide a suite of apps that make data, and insights from that data,actionable in real-time. The company's data-driven tools make sense of the complex financial, administration, and outcomes components essential to providing and demonstrating value and achieving satisfaction.The company currently manages more than $4 billion in annualized accounts receivable on its integrated clinical and financial platform. | $31.5M | Post-IPO Equity | Nov 15, 2016 |  |
| Health Catalyst | Health Catalyst is a tech platform that organizes and links health-related data from different systems. It helps organize, normalize, and link the data from all different systems and make it searchable by all users, even the non-technical. | $70M | Series E | Feb 29, 2016 |  |
| CareCloud | CareCloud provides cloud-based revenue cycle management (RCM), practice management (PM), electronic health record (EHR), and patient engagement solutions for medical groups. It helps clients increase profitability, streamline workflow, and improve patient care nationwide. They provide a suite of apps that make data, and insights from that data,actionable in real-time. The company's data-driven tools make sense of the complex financial, administration, and outcomes components essential to providing and demonstrating value and achieving satisfaction.The company currently manages more than $4 billion in annualized accounts receivable on its integrated clinical and financial platform. | $15M | Post-IPO Equity | Apr 23, 2015 |  |
| Health Catalyst | Health Catalyst is a tech platform that organizes and links health-related data from different systems. It helps organize, normalize, and link the data from all different systems and make it searchable by all users, even the non-technical. | $70M | Series D | Mar 17, 2015 |  |
| Health Catalyst | Health Catalyst is a tech platform that organizes and links health-related data from different systems. It helps organize, normalize, and link the data from all different systems and make it searchable by all users, even the non-technical. | $41M | Series C | Jan 27, 2014 |  |
| CareCloud | CareCloud provides cloud-based revenue cycle management (RCM), practice management (PM), electronic health record (EHR), and patient engagement solutions for medical groups. It helps clients increase profitability, streamline workflow, and improve patient care nationwide. They provide a suite of apps that make data, and insights from that data,actionable in real-time. The company's data-driven tools make sense of the complex financial, administration, and outcomes components essential to providing and demonstrating value and achieving satisfaction.The company currently manages more than $4 billion in annualized accounts receivable on its integrated clinical and financial platform. | $20M | Series B | Jun 18, 2013 |  |
| Health Catalyst | Health Catalyst is a tech platform that organizes and links health-related data from different systems. It helps organize, normalize, and link the data from all different systems and make it searchable by all users, even the non-technical. | $33M | Series B | Jan 08, 2013 |  |
| InsightsOne | InsightsOne is a pioneer in cloud-based predictive analytics solutions enabled by big data. The company was founded by the team that built Yahoo!'s consumer data and analytics platform, which is recognized as one of the best in the industry, and the first platform to exploit the power of big data to increase consumer monetization andengagement. InsightsOne offers real-time precision targeting and marketing insights to consumer marketers so they can optimize the relevance and profitability of offers to consumers. Based on powerful, Hadoop-based micro-segmentation technology, InsightsOne extracts signals from social, mobile, unstructured and structured data to optimize offers delivered by email, mobile, in-app, social and web communications. This data is becoming increasingly valuable to consumer marketers who want to exploit the unprecedented power of big data to grow profits and increase consumer engagement. InsightsOne is funded by Norwest Venture Partners and is based in Santa Clara, Calif. | $4.3M | Series A | Mar 29, 2012 |  |
| CareCloud | CareCloud provides cloud-based revenue cycle management (RCM), practice management (PM), electronic health record (EHR), and patient engagement solutions for medical groups. It helps clients increase profitability, streamline workflow, and improve patient care nationwide. They provide a suite of apps that make data, and insights from that data,actionable in real-time. The company's data-driven tools make sense of the complex financial, administration, and outcomes components essential to providing and demonstrating value and achieving satisfaction.The company currently manages more than $4 billion in annualized accounts receivable on its integrated clinical and financial platform. | $20.1M | Series A | Sep 26, 2011 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sorenson Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sorenson-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tenaya Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tenaya-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CHV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chv-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BYU Cougar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cougar-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Sentinel Global

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Sentinel Global is a venture capital firm that provides investment and business development solutions.

3 contacts available at Sentinel Global.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ethel Chen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethel-chen |
| Jeremy Kranz | Managing Partner and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeremy-kranz |
| Karan Sharma | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karan-sharma-899e |

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## FAQ

### What does Ethel Chen invest in?

Ethel Chen invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 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 Ethel Chen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ethel Chen closed in Nov 2016. Shizune tracks 9 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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