# Jacky Chen

> Jacky Chen is a seed investor at Archangel Network of Funds backing Software and Health Care. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Archangel Network of Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel-4de5)
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Mar 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackychen/

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $362k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 25% |
| Health Care | 4 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 20% |
| SaaS | 3 | 15% |
| Medical | 2 | 10% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 13 | 65% |
| United States | 4 | 20% |
| China | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Agile Devices | 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 |  |
| Agile Devices | 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 | 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 | Workwolf is a Toronto-based start-up with a management team who has led 7 start-ups, had 2 successful exits, and has taken a company public with a $1.8B IPO. Workwolf CEO Erik Simins is an SME in HR who previously founded MAGNUS HRS, a staffing company now servicing over 150 enterprise customers. The technology at Workwolf solves two of the biggestpain points in employment: applicant filtration and verification, and does so by empowering users to identify better candidates faster. Winner of global awards in both 2020 and 2021 for innovation and market potential, Workwolf is ramping up for its multi-national roll-out with ManpowerGroup in September that will coincide with a $4.5M Seed financing round. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2020 |  |
| Traction Technology | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Cheetah Networks is a telecommunication company located in Ottawa. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2020 |  |
| LabsCubed | LabsCubed helps companies create new and innovative materials. |  | Seed | Sep 30, 2019 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Golden Triangle Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-triangle-angel-network) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mars-investment-accelerator-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [NorthSpring Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northspring-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Wharton Alumni Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wharton-alumni-angels) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Good News Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-news-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Angel One Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-one-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Archangel Network of Funds

VC Fund · Kitchener, Canada

Archangel is the overarching early stage investment fund based in Waterloo Region, the North Silicon Valley of North America.

5 contacts available at Archangel Network of Funds.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amber French | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amber-french-3507 |
| Danielle Graham | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danielle-graham |
| Diane Wolfenden | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diane-wolfenden-f69a |
| Jacky Chen | General Partner, Board Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacky-chen-837e |
| Peyvand Melati | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peyvand-melati |

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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 20 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.

### When did Jacky Chen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jacky Chen closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 20 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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