Jacky Chen
General Partner, Board Director @ Archangel Network of Funds
Jacky Chen is a seed investor at Archangel Network of Funds focused on Software and Health Care. Jacky is dedicated to angel investment and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the early-stage B2B companies with disruptive technologies and business potential in enterprise software, information technologies, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.Jacky has acquiredconcrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with the leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners. The unique journey has shaped Jacky's outstanding of investing in early startups.Jacky holds the degrees of Mater's E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Jacky Chen invests in
Stages Jacky Chen invests in
Countries Jacky Chen invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$3.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $362k–$1.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (24%)
- Health Care 4 (19%)
- Information Technology 4 (19%)
- SaaS 3 (14%)
- Medical 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (71%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (5%)
Country
- Canada 13 (62%)
- United States 4 (19%)
- China 1 (5%)
Investments
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Agile Devices
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Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies. | $1.4M / Mar 09, 2021 | |
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Agile Devices
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Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies. | $1.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 09, 2021 | |
MedStack
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For providers of healthcare applications in technology vendors, enterprises and agencies, MedStack provides pre-written, software-driven privacy policies aligned to virtually all requirements of HIPAA, SOC2, PIPEDA, GDPR and ISO27001. These policies are fully inheritable by these companies and aligned to any vendor security assessment orcertification requirement of the industry; inheritance is facilitated by integration into proprietary automated configuration of public cloud hosting infrastructure as a separate layer of the stack; application developers simply build to industry standard containerization with nothing new to learn, and get the questions and proof requirements of their customers answered out of the box. | $3.1M / Seed / Jan 01, 2021 | |
Workwolf
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Workwolf is a recruitment services company that combines human recruiters with proprietary AI and psychometric technology to deliver predictive hiring intelligence at disruptive pricing. The company addresses a fundamental inefficiency in the $150B+ recruitment industry: traditional agencies charge 15-25% of candidate salary for subjectiveassessments with no performance accountability. Workwolf’s technology-enabled model delivers measurable quality improvements at significantly lower cost per hire. The proprietary technology platform includes two core components: Smart Resume Screening for contextual qualification matching, and Packfinder™ psychometrics for role-specific performance prediction. Unlike generic assessment tools, Packfinder™ models are calibrated using client performance data, creating organization-specific predictions that improve with scale. The business model starts at fees as low as 4% of annual salary for high-volume roles, rather than percentage-based fees of 15-25%, creating favorable unit economics for high-volume clients while maintaining strong margins through technology leverage. This pricing structure aligns incentives around retention rather than salary inflation. Target customers are mid-market companies with consistent hiring volume (2+ hires/month) across multiple locations—particularly retail, hospitality, healthcare, logistics, and call centers. These segments offer predictable demand and benefit most from Workwolf’s pattern recognition capabilities across distributed operations. The platform generates compounding data advantages: each hire provides performance outcome data that refines predictive models, creating a defensible moat as the system processes more hiring decisions within and across client organizations. Workwolf is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. | $1.8M / Pre-Seed / Dec 15, 2020 | |
Traction Technology
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Traction is a powerful SaaS collaboration platform for evaluating, adopting and managing new technologies across the enterprise. The platform includes Project Management and CRM tools designed specifically for enterprise teams tasked with discovering and evaluating new technologies. Traction is used by IT, Innovation and Corp Dev teams toaccelerate their digital transformation projects, and to speed up the way they find, manage, and adopt new technologies. Traction also offers On-Demand Research services delivered through its platform. | Seed / Dec 03, 2020 | |
Boltive
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Boltive is on a mission to secure advertisers and publishers against invasive media. Invasive ads violate written laws and unwritten norms.They are heavy, malicious, or offensive. They even leak private data. Boltive is the first solution that protects the entire ecosystem from unwanted, non-secure and unsafe ads. | Seed / Nov 05, 2020 | |
Swirltex
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Swirltex builds custom water treatment systems for a wide range of applications. The company's patent membrane works by separating and filtering liquids according to their buoyancy, which allows for greater production with less pollution of the water. The ability to manipulate the buoyancy of different contaminants within the liquid streamallows the Swirltex system to treat water that would be considered unusable. | Seed / Feb 26, 2020 | |
PUSH
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PUSH's mission is to improve human performance through technology. PUSH leverages the same proprietary technology to provide solutions for enterprise customers in professional sports, wellness and military under the PUSH Pro brand, and consumers under the PUSH Athlete brand. PUSH Pro provides coaches and trainers with solutions to remotelyschedule, deliver programs, and receive and analyze data from users. PUSH Athlete is designed to combine an engaging connected fitness experience (pro-level coaches, data, community and benchmarking) with traditional equipment (affordable, effective and accessible) by "making dumb equipment smart". | Seed / Feb 25, 2020 | |
Cheetah Networks
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Cheetah Networks is a telecommunication company located in Ottawa. | Seed / Feb 01, 2020 | |
LabsCubed
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LabsCubed helps companies create new and innovative materials. | Seed / Sep 30, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
Archangel is the overarching early stage investment fund based in Waterloo Region, the North Silicon Valley of North America.
Archangel Network of Funds Contacts
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Amber French
Co-Founder
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Danielle Graham
General Partner
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Diane Wolfenden
General Partner
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Jacky Chen
General Partner, Board Director
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Peyvand Melati
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Jacky Chen invest in?
Jacky Chen invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Jacky Chen's check size?
Jacky Chen typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.1M at Seed and $362k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jacky Chen participates in.
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When did Jacky Chen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jacky Chen closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 21 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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