Phil Chen
Angel Investor @ Horizons Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Phil Chen is a Series A investor at Horizons Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Music. Phil is a technology explorer and global citizen. As head of HTC’s business and corporate development, Phil has led investments into KKBox (#1 music service in Asia), Soundhound, Magnet, and the acquisition of Beats electronics. Most recently, Phil founded VR at HTC. Prior to HTC, Phil was VP of Product for the Alex eReader and founded Glo Bible.Before his corporate endeavors, Phil built schools and orphanages in Afghanistan, Africa, and China and worked as a research assistant at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.Phil holds a B. A. and B.S. in Pure Mathematics and Physics from UCSD and an M.Div in Postmodern Philosophy from Fuller Seminary.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 47%
Last updated:
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Industries Phil Chen invests in
Stages Phil Chen invests in
Countries Phil Chen invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (47%)
- Music 4 (21%)
- Mobile Apps 4 (21%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (21%)
- Computer 3 (16%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (32%)
- Seed 4 (21%)
- Series B 2 (11%)
- Funding Round 2 (11%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 6 (32%)
- Taiwan 3 (16%)
- United Kingdom 2 (11%)
- Hong Kong 1 (5%)
- New Zealand 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights | $5.6M / Series B / Jul 06, 2022 | ||
| Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around the world in unprecedented ways at scales both large and small. We have developed Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) the most advancedand most developer-friendly implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. Along with Neutrino, an open platform that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain and Lightning Network transactions quickly and easily. We’re hiring. See our open positions: http://lightning.engineering/careers.html Get involved: http://dev.lightning.community/ | $10M / Series A / Feb 05, 2020 | ||
| Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights | $3M / Series A / Sep 03, 2019 | ||
| Scopely is an interactive entertainment and video game company, home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Stumble Guys”, and “Yahtzee With Buddies,” among others.Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience.Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami™ that supports one of the diversified portfolios in the mobile games industry. Recognized multiple times as Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years. Scopely has operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia-Pacific, including Bangalore and Shanghai, among others; EMEA, including Barcelona and Dublin, among others; and North America, including Boulder, Colorado, and Culver City, California, among others, with additional game studio partners across four continents. | $100M / Series C / Jun 19, 2018 | ||
| Amper is an artificial intelligence composer, performer, and producer that creates unique music, tailored to any content, instantly. Using its proprietary sample library and datasets, their technology is built from the ground up with an emphasis on high-quality music through the fusion of music theory and AI innovation. The Amper Score enablesenterprise teams to compose custom music in seconds and reclaim the time spent searching through stock music. Amper’s mission is to enable anyone to express themselves creatively through music regardless of their musical background or expertise. Amper builds tools powered by their Creative AI to help people create and customize original music. | $4M / Seed / Mar 22, 2018 | ||
| Blue Vision Labs is a collaborative Augmented Reality (AR) company that is enabling the next-generation of AR and robotics. The co-founders met seven years ago as a group of entrepreneurial friends and have grown into a team of engineers and researchers from Oxford, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. They love building things and have a track ofwinning top programming competitions, research awards, and working on cutting-edge products in robotics, computer vision, and self-driving cars. | $14.5M / Series A / Mar 15, 2018 | ||
| Fano Labs provides automatic language detection and multilingual speech recognition, with capabilities for mixed-language transcription. The company’s proprietary automatic speech recognition models are designed for enterprise environments and focus on accuracy in complex, real-world conversations. Fano Labs enables organizations to analyze callrecordings, live chats, and emails to extract insights related to sales performance, compliance monitoring, operational workflows, and customer sentiment. | Seed / Nov 21, 2017 | ||
| The Company provides software to improve the Smash experience for streamers, players, tournament attendees, and spectators (collectively, “General Users”) and for registered users who are tournament organizers (“Tournament Organizers”). The Company provides a platform for enabling connections between General Users and Tournament Organizers and forthe collection of payments with respect to the sale of tickets, registrations, merchandise, and services for, and the solicitation of donations with respect to, events registered on the Site from General Users. | $11M / Series A / Aug 02, 2017 | ||
| Fano Labs provides automatic language detection and multilingual speech recognition, with capabilities for mixed-language transcription. The company’s proprietary automatic speech recognition models are designed for enterprise environments and focus on accuracy in complex, real-world conversations. Fano Labs enables organizations to analyze callrecordings, live chats, and emails to extract insights related to sales performance, compliance monitoring, operational workflows, and customer sentiment. | Seed / Jul 01, 2017 | ||
| Scopely is an interactive entertainment and video game company, home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “Stumble Guys”, and “Yahtzee With Buddies,” among others.Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience.Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami™ that supports one of the diversified portfolios in the mobile games industry. Recognized multiple times as Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years. Scopely has operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia-Pacific, including Bangalore and Shanghai, among others; EMEA, including Barcelona and Dublin, among others; and North America, including Boulder, Colorado, and Culver City, California, among others, with additional game studio partners across four continents. | $60M / Series C / Jun 15, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Horizons Ventures
Horizons Ventures focuses on investing in disruptive and technology-focused start-ups. The firm was founded in 1999 and is based in Hong Kong. Some of the latest exits are Skype, Siri, Facebook, Summly, and Waze.
Horizons Ventures Contacts
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What does Phil Chen invest in?
Phil Chen invests primarily in Software, Music and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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