# Siqi Chen

> Siqi Chen is a seed investor at Newco backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Newco](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newco-4d41)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siqic/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/blader
- Website: https://x.com/blader
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/founder

Siqi Chen is a seed investor at Newco in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Siqi Chen is the Chief Financial Officer of Runway. He previously worked as an Advisor at Laserlike Inc. Siqi attended UC San Diego, where he obtained a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $300k–$5M |
| Series A | $7M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 31% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | 31% |
| Gaming | 6 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 12% |
| Video Games | 5 | 10% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 31 | 61% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 18% |
| Series A | 6 | 12% |
| Angel | 3 | 6% |
| Series B | 2 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 34 | 67% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sentra | Sentra is an enterprise AI platform that acts as an organizational memory system. It captures company knowledge, decisions, and interactions to create a unified, living intelligence for teams. Sentra connects to tools like meetings, Slack, Jira, and calendars to build a timeline of decisions and commitments. It learns company priorities throughreal-time conversations and spots misalignments or risks before they escalate. | $5M | Seed | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Hyperspell | Hyperspell is the data platform that lets you build your AI-enabled apps faster. Let your users connect to dozens of services, and use Hyperspell’s end-to-end data pipeline to get structured data with a single API call. | $6.7M | Seed | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| ego AI | ego AI is a technology platform focused on creating persistent, human-like AI characters capable of moving across multiple digital experiences, enabling ongoing relationships and emergent storytelling that feels lifelike. | $6.7M | Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Emergent | Emergent is a platform for agentic vibe-coding. | $23M | Series A | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Rork | Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links. |  | Pre-Seed | May 05, 2025 |  |
| Rork | Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links. | $2.8M | Seed | May 05, 2025 |  |
| Redcar | Redcar is the easiest way for B2B companies to scale their sales teams. We provide building blocks to create AI Agents tailored to each company’s unique workflows, so human sales reps can focus on closing deals. | $5.3M | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Hyperspell | Hyperspell is the data platform that lets you build your AI-enabled apps faster. Let your users connect to dozens of services, and use Hyperspell’s end-to-end data pipeline to get structured data with a single API call. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2025 |  |
| Sauna by Wordware | Wordware allows users to create and host their entire LLM stack for AI application development. It offers tools for building, training, and deploying language models. The platform simplifies the integration of various components necessary for AI solutions. Users can manage their applications and data within a unified environment. | $30M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Troveo AI | Troveo AI allows content creators to turn their videos into passive income by licensing them to AI companies that require quality content for model training. The platform helps upload videos and secure revenue through licensing deals with firms interested in training AI models, benefiting both the creators and the AI industry. Troveo AI aidscreators in regaining control over their content and ensures they get compensated for its use, addressing issues of piracy. | $4.5M | Seed | Nov 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Chapter One](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chapter-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Newco

VC Fund

Newco

1 contacts available at Newco.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Siqi Chen | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/siqi-chen |

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## FAQ

### What does Siqi Chen invest in?

Siqi Chen invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 51 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 Siqi Chen's check size?

Siqi Chen typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$12M at Seed, $300k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$23M 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 Siqi Chen participates in.

### When did Siqi Chen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Siqi Chen closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 51 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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