Richard Chen
General Partner @ 1confirmation
San Francisco, United States
Richard Chen is a seed investor at 1confirmation in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Richard Chen
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Richard Chen invests in
Stages Richard Chen invests in
Countries Richard Chen invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (70%)
- SaaS 4 (40%)
- Information Technology 3 (30%)
- B2B 2 (20%)
- Mobile 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (20%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
- Convertible Note 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 9 (90%)
- Japan 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Farel
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At Farel, we’re building the Operating system for next-generation airlines, that streamlines critical operations, automates resource-intensive back-office processes, and boosts airline revenue through supercharged ancillary and e-commerce opportunities. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Aug 28, 2020 | |
Maslo
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Maslo is a new category defining technology. The platform captures and processes unstructured signals like audio, video, and biomarkers to infer mental states, behaviors, and change in people over time. | $1.9M / Pre-Seed / Nov 19, 2019 | |
Kinnek
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Kinnek is a single platform for small businesses that makes discovering and transacting with suppliers easier than ever before. Kinnek was started in 2012 in New York City when co-founders Rui Ma and Karthik Sridharan noticed that small business owners were stuck in a rut when it came to how they bought things for their businesses. Theycouldn't just walk into a typical store or shop on the usual consumer-focused websites, because their requirements were more customized. They needed customized equipment, customized machinery, supplies in customized quantities- and they didn't have the massive resources necessary to have a dedicated team of purchasing managers to handle all that complexity. | $10M / Series A / Sep 15, 2014 | |
MakeLeaps
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MakeLeaps is online invoicing software for freelancers and businesses in Japan. Create beautiful invoices and optionally include your company logo and hanko. We can even print and send your invoice anywhere in Japan for only ¥199. Create a free account today. | $600K / Angel / Aug 28, 2014 | |
MobileAction
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Mobile Action is the leading solution for driving organic app growth and analyzing app marketplace intelligence. Mobile Action has tracked over 25 billion downloads, $15 billion in app revenue, and has over 95,000 apps connected directly to their platform. The product suite consists of Rankings & Leaderboards, App Intelligence, and StoreIntelligence. With over 95,000 mobile apps connected to the App Intelligence platform, Mobile Action generates highly precise app download and revenue estimates for the Store Intelligence platform. These reports empower app publishers and financial professionals to make informed decisions on app strategy and investment decisions. | $805K / Seed / Jul 23, 2014 | |
Stitch
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Stitch helps salespeople close more deals and be more responsive. They are building the best mobile-first, sales productivity platform. Their first product is a mobile email application for salespeople. With Stitch, salespeople can communicate faster by having the right information, insights, and tools at their fingertips. In today’s highlycompetitive world, they believe it’s not only possible, it’s essential, to be as effective and responsive on the go as when sitting in front of a desk. In sales, being responsive means delivering immediate and complete answers to prospects’ questions. They enable salespeople to respond NOW, not later, to every mobile email. | $3.3M / Seed / Apr 24, 2014 | |
BriteHub
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BriteHub’s software helps bridge old legacy systems into a cloud-based interface that will advance companies and build a strong foundation for the new-age tech savvy workforce that is the next generation of employees. Today, supply chains are managed through a streamlined RFQ to quote to purchase order-tracking system. This interface allows fororganized messaging between internal and external stakeholders. Files are stored, shared, and viewable with an in-browser 3D viewer. Engineering change orders and version control are tracked and connected directly with the purchase order they relate to. BriteHub features continue to evolve and lead the way in supply chain management and collaboration. | $640K / Convertible Note / Jan 15, 2014 | |
AdEspresso
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AdEspresso is a SaaS tool that allows to quickly create, analyze and optimize your Facebook Ads in an incredibly simple way. If you're not an enterprise you need two things: a) simplicity, to quickly get it done, b) automation, to save time. On average our users (startups, merchants and small agencies) save up to 70% of the manual workneeded to setup a Facebook Campaign and improve their performance up to 40%.The other players in the space are super sophisticated tools that only work best with a lot of training and/or very high volumes of Ad Spending. Our strength: AdEspresso is dead simple and blazing fast.We empowers users to quickly split test every aspect of their Facebook Campaigns. In a couple minutes users can create hundreds of Ads, testing everything from the creativity to the targeting.Once the campaign is created, simple yet meaningful analytics allow to understand what is performing best and optimize their campaigns both manually or automatically. | $500K / Seed / Dec 25, 2013 | |
Pogoseat
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Pogoseat is an enterprise solution that develops cutting-edge technology company intended to enhance fan engagement with AI-driven personalization and a frictionless buying process. It creates new revenue streams and data for our partners by providing a white-labeled system and mobile ticketing tools such as seat upgrade technology, text-to-buy,and subscription pass, enabling sports teams, concert venues, ticket brokers, and promoters to increase engagement, monetize unused inventory, and gather data to improve the fan experience. | $800K / Seed / Sep 01, 2013 | |
RolePoint
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RolePoint's mission is to rethink the way organizations access and retain the highest quality talent by driving the shift in how enterprises use data to hire. | $5M / Seed / Jan 01, 2013 |
Co-Investors
About 1confirmation
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1confirmation Contacts
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Frank Hourigan
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Kofi Kufuor
Partner
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Mike Tomaino
PARTNER
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Nick Tomaino
Founder & General Partner
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Richard Chen
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Richard Chen invest in?
Richard Chen invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 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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The most recent investment recorded for Richard Chen closed in Aug 2020. Shizune tracks 10 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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