Simon Chan
Managing Partner @ FirsthandVC
San Francisco, United States
Simon Chan is a seed investor at FirsthandVC in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Simon Chan is the Managing Partner of Firsthand Ventures. He was the co-founder and CEO of PredictionIO which was acquired by Salesforce to become the Einstein platform. He then served as a product executive launching core AI platform initiatives in the company. Simon has years of startup investment experience through his own capital as well aswith a number of VC firms. He is also an LP in multiple funds. Simon holds a B.S.E degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Ph.D. degree in Machine Learning from University College London.
- Total investments:
- 48
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
Last updated:
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Industries Simon Chan invests in
Stages Simon Chan invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (21%)
- Information Technology 8 (17%)
- Analytics 5 (10%)
- Machine Learning 4 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 24 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (15%)
- Series A 2 (4%)
- Funding Round 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 30 (63%)
- Israel 2 (4%)
- Hong Kong 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| EVE is the first Inbox Revenue Engine for small and mid-sized B2B businesses — an AI platform that connects directly to email, documents, and calendars to uncover hidden revenue. By autonomously identifying overlooked leads, stalled deals, and buying signals, EVE helps companies recover 20–30% of revenue typically lost in daily communication gaps.EVE is building the default revenue operating system for the next generation of SMBs — turning ordinary inboxes into real-time revenue engines.Backed by leading investors, including Firsthand.VC, Founders Future, A16Z Scout Fund, and founders of Slack and Hugging Face, EVE is redefining CRM for SMBs by bringing automation and intelligence to where business actually happens — the inbox. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Nov 11, 2025 | ||
| Blazel is an AI-powered enterprise platform automating executive communications, personal branding, and B2B thought leadership content. | $10.3M / Pre-Seed / Jul 16, 2025 | ||
| lunar.dev to help discover, manage and centralize the management of 3rd party APIs. | $6M / Seed / Nov 09, 2023 | ||
| Objective, Inc. was created for teams like yours, who care about business outcomes over convoluted pipelines, and customer delight over endless tinkering. Our AI knows what users are looking for, even when the true meaning of your data is buried deep inside pixels and paragraphs. | $13M / Seed / Oct 18, 2023 | ||
| AskFora is an app to connect contractors and managers with each other. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 30, 2023 | ||
| LastMile AI provides an AI developer platform for engineering and product teams. | $10M / Seed / Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| Parallax offers a crypto platform where users can seamlessly pay and get paid in crypto and cash. Parallax builds the infrastructure to make crypto the ubiquitous form of business money movement, enabling businesses to make payments simple by communicating the need for payment and accounting. | $4.5M / Seed / Sep 12, 2023 | ||
| Trebellar specializes in helping firms optimize building operations and space decisions to reduce carbon emissions. | $3.5M / Seed / Jul 12, 2023 | ||
| Revcast enhances revenue performance, With more precise planning, real-time risk and opportunity assessment, and potent capacity-based forecasting. | $3M / Seed / Jun 28, 2023 | ||
| Data powers innovation across industries but also introduces new risks. Organizations struggle to maintain visibility and control as data flows across systems and third parties. Zendata provides AI-driven insights into data usage and exposure, identifies risks in third-party integrations, and aligns data activity with existing policies andagreements. By unifying signals from disparate data sources, Zendata helps organizations unlock value from their data while maintaining security and compliance | $150K / Seed / Jun 20, 2023 | ||
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Co-Investors
About FirsthandVC
FirsthandVC partners with seasoned founders at the inception stage to build the next wave of transformative companies. Specializing in autonomous business software, we provide more than capital—we connect founders with a unique network of industry leaders and accomplished entrepreneurs to accelerate their journey from vision to success.
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Simon Chan
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What does Simon Chan invest in?
Simon Chan invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 48 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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