# Raymond Chan

> Raymond Chan is a seed investor at Culinary Agents (New York) backing Internet and E-Commerce. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Culinary Agents](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/culinary-agents)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondechan

Raymond Chan is a seed investor at Culinary Agents in New York focused on Internet and E-Commerce. In the last 10+ years, Raymond has specialized in digital media, internet and technology startups. He currently leads product and is a co-founder at Culinary Agents, a venture backed startup that is revolutionizing networking and job matching for the food, beverage and hospitality industry.Prior to Culinary Agents, he partnered with Kevin Tungto co-found and lead technology and product at venture-backed Image Space Media (ISM), a digital advertising platform that connects brands with the trillions of images & visual content on the web. ISM was acquired in January 2012 by Vibrant Media where he currently leads Product Management. Prior to ISM, Raymond led product development at venture-backed Inform building powerful semantic SaaS products that allowed clients like CNN and Washington Post to connect their readers with interesting content by identifying related topics & entities. Raymond started his career at Citi as part of their technology leadership program. He left Citi after 6 years after becoming one of the youngest VPs in the Global Engineering organization.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 40% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 40% |
| Video | 1 | 20% |
| EdTech | 1 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 80% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| India | 1 | 20% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eruditus Executive Education | Eruditus collaborates with top universities to make executive education accessible globally. Eruditus has partnered with more than 30 universities to date, including MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, UC Berkeley, INCAE, IIT, IIM, NUS, and HKUST, launching more than 100 courses and serving students from more than 80 countries. Manycourses are offered and facilitated in multiple languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin.Eruditus was founded in 2010 and is based in Singapore with offices in six countries, 650+ employees, and more than 50,000 student enrolments. | $350.5M | Debt Financing | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| DLVR | DLVR Action™ is an entirely cloud based solution dedicated to measuring and optimizing video experiences for every user, every time, on all devices. Their patent pending technology uses a completely unique approach that for the first time takes into consideration all the factors that influence the Quality of Experience (QoE) of Internet video toend users. Instead of depending on client-side SDKs or code, DLVR works from the cloud. Publishers receive optimized video, detailed analytics of every user session, seamless multiCDN execution, and a host of additional benefits, all with zero client-side code maintenance. No longer wrestle with SDK’s, Plug-ins, and for the first time achieve visibility into every device, regardless of its client -side capabilities. |  | Seed | Apr 06, 2017 |  |
| Culinary Agents | Culinary Agents is a website to find career-related information about the hospitality industry. Focused on its mission to help talent succeed in their careers within the hospitality industry, the platform empowers aspiring and existing talent to easily discover and apply to the best jobs. Culinary Agents also provides job marketing, recruiting andemployer branding solutions to help businesses hire the best talent.Culinary Agents is committed to a hospitality-driven approach, thoughtful innovation, building meaningful relationships and maintaining integrity. Its growing community spans the U.S., including all levels of talent as well as restaurants, hotels, resorts, catering, foodservice, schools and organizations of all sizes. |  | Seed | Jan 15, 2015 |  |
| Shopline | Shopline is a DIY e-commerce platform for creating online shops in Asia. Their differentiation lies in their simplistic setup process, native language support, regional payment methods and the fact that the entire experience is optimised for mobile. All shops are completely responsive and adapts to all screen sizes so the customer experience isconsistent on every device. Their mission is to empower small businesses in Asia with simple-to-use tools that complements the way they do business and allowing them to succeed in e-commerce. Beginning with the Chinese-speaking countries of Asia, their company is positioned to disrupt a huge market in an ever growing e-commerce space in Asia. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2014 |  |
| Keaton Row | Keaton Row specializes in the fields of personal styling, E-commerce, fashion merchandising, and fashion editorial. It brings the one on one relationship between a stylist and a client online. The company's stylists work directly with women to help them build versatile everyday wardrobes comprised of fewer, better pieces by guiding them tomake meaningful purchases each season. By styling new purchases with pieces they already own, they help them define their unique styles so they never have to wonder what to wear—or how to wear it—again.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States. |  | Seed | Sep 06, 2013 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [645 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/645-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CPP Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canada-pension-plan-investment-board) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Female Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/female-founders-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Grape Arbor VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grape-arbor-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mesa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mesa-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Culinary Agents

VC Fund · New York, United States

Culinary Agents is a website to find career-related information about the hospitality industry. Focused on its mission to help talent succeed in their careers within the hospitality industry, the platform empowers aspiring and existing talent to easily discover and apply to the best jobs. Culinary Agents also provides job marketing, recruiting andemployer branding solutions to help businesses hire the best talent.Culinary Agents is committed to a hospitality-driven approach, thoughtful innovation, building meaningful relationships and maintaining integrity. Its growing community spans the U.S., including all levels of talent as well as restaurants, hotels, resorts, catering, foodservice, schools and organizations of all sizes.

3 contacts available at Culinary Agents.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alice Cheng | Founder, CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alice-cheng |
| Jun Seok Yoon | Co-Founder, CTO; Co-Founder, CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jun-seok-yoon |
| Raymond Chan | Co-Founder, Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raymond-chan |

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## FAQ

### What does Raymond Chan invest in?

Raymond Chan invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and Video startups, most often at Seed and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 5 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 Raymond Chan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Raymond Chan closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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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