# Nelson Chu

> Nelson Chu is a seed investor at Percent (New York) backing FinTech and Health Care. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Percent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cadence)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelson-chu/
- Website: https://x.com/nelsonchu_

Nelson Chu is a seed investor at Percent in New York focused on FinTech and Health Care. Nelson Chu is based out of New York, New York, and is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Percent. Nelson previously worked at Recharge Capital as an Advisor. Nelson Chu attended Rutgers University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$2.2M |
| Series A | $3.5M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 43% |
| Health Care | 3 | 43% |
| Credit | 2 | 29% |
| Medical | 2 | 29% |
| Hospital | 2 | 29% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |
| Series D | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 71% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Plentina | Plentina builds an alternative credit score and application that provides store credit financing to buy essentials like food and medicine in emerging markets using machine learning algortithms. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in | $2.2M | Seed | Apr 15, 2021 |  |
| Eden Health | Eden Health is a primary care and insurance navigation company for employers, designed to elevate the health and wellbeing of employees everywhere. It helps employees navigate today’s complicated healthcare landscape across insurance, primary care and mental healthcare, so they can make smart, well-informed, and cost-conscious decisions. | $60M | Series C | Feb 18, 2021 |  |
| BlockFi | BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with aregistered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies.BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs. | $1.6M | Seed | Feb 13, 2018 |  |
| BlockFi | BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with aregistered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies.BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs. | $1.6M | Seed | Feb 13, 2018 |  |
| Pomelo Health | Pomelo Health was founded in 2012, with the mission of liberating patients from clinic waiting rooms and providing better access to healthcare. We were named one of the twenty-five most innovative businesses by C2-MTL. We are now leaders in digital healthcare management through our suite of products enabling full-circle appointment management forclinics and patients alike. In the past year alone, we’ve serviced 12 million users through our network of clinics across North America that use our products.We believe healthcare access should be more than a regular service: it should be a trustable, an easy to use and a practical tool for patients and clinics. Our ambition is not only about helping people or simply creating another ingenious app for them. We want to revolutionize the experience for both patients and clinics, to gain their trust, and to change their perception about healthcare services.At Pomelo Health, the driving force behind everything we do is our unwavering drive to improve patient and clinic staff experiences and that's the best part of our work! We are proud of all that we have achieved, but most of all, we are excited and inspired by the adventures to come. | $3.5M | Series A | Jul 11, 2017 |  |
| Clover Health | Clover Health is a provider of Medicare Advantage health plans to older Americans. The company operates a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) platform to improve the quality of life of its members and physicians. Its platform utilizes patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team to identify potential risks and directly providepreventive care, thereby enabling patients and their health care providers to reduce avoidable spending as well as identify and manage chronic diseases.Clover uses sophisticated analytics and custom software to direct its own clinical staff to proactively fill in gaps in the care of its members. | $130M | Series D | May 10, 2017 |  |
| Tala | Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets. Tala provides personalized loans to approvedborrowers and builds digital credit history. The company provides instant loans through a mobile app where the entire process happens, from loan application to funds release and status tracking.Tala was founded on October 1, 2011, and is the global team is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional offices in Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore. | $10M | Series A | Sep 03, 2015 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cadenza Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cadenza-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fort Schuyler Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fort-schuyler-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [PJC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pjc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Vast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vast-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aspect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Percent

VC Fund · New York, United States

Percent is a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions. Percent's innovative ecosystem enables lenders of any size to raise the most flexible debt capitalat a low cost through dynamic market pricing and standardized terms. To date, its platforms have powered more than $600 million in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar lending market.

5 contacts available at Percent.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nelson Chu | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nelson-chu-d060 |
| Catheryn Robinson | Managing Director, Capital Markets | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catheryn-robinson |
| Gary Reifman | Head of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-reifman |
| Kit Sirota | Vice President Of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kit-sirota |
| Prath Reddy | Head of Capital Markets | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prath-reddy |

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## FAQ

### What does Nelson Chu invest in?

Nelson Chu invests primarily in FinTech, Health Care and Credit startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Nelson Chu's check size?

Nelson Chu typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$2.2M at Seed and $3.5M–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nelson Chu participates in.

### When did Nelson Chu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nelson Chu closed in Apr 2021. Shizune tracks 7 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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