Wesley Chan
Managing Director, General Partner @ Felicis
San Francisco, United States
Wesley Chan is a seed investor at Felicis in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Wesley Chan is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at FPV Ventures, a $450M early stage fund that backs and serves mission-driven founders. He is an investor in five $10B+ "decacorns," his most notable being Canva where he is a member of the board of directors, led the Series A and C rounds, and is worth north of $40B. He founded GoogleAnalytics and Google Voice and holds 17 US patents for his work in creating Google AdWords. Among Wesley's 20+ unicorn investments, he wrote the first or very early check into fintech API decacorn Plaid, logistics powerhouse Flexport, SMB payroll leader Gusto, enterprise software unicorn Lucid, and stock trading platform RobinHood (NASDAQ: HOOD)-- and led investments in Canva, AngelList, Carta, Guild Education, Sourcegraph, Dialpad, RocketLawyer, Orca Bio, Checkr, CultureAmp, HyperScience, Zipline, Astranis, TrialSpark, and Ring (exit to AMZN). Business Insider named Wesley to their Top 100 Seed Investors list for two consecutive years in 2022 & 2021.He was formerly a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures and one of the first General Partners at GV (Google Ventures). He led investments and/or held board seats in Xilis, AngelList, Opsera, Pendulum Therapeutics, ProteinQure, Okera, Ascend.io, Overture Life, TopFunnel, Spring Discovery, iPierian (exit to BMS), Transphorm (NASDAQ: TGAN) and Dialpad. Wesley also founded GV’s seed investing program and wrote first checks into RobinHood, Plaid, Gusto, RobinHood, Vungle ($750M exit to Blackstone), Lucid, Optimizely, DataPad (exit to Cloudera), Freshplum (exit to TWTR), Namo Media (exit to TWTR), and Parse (exit to FB).Wesley is a recipient of Google’s Founders Award – the company’s most prestigious recognition – for leading the development of Google’s early client efforts, which led to the creation of Google Chrome. He also worked at HP Labs as a senior software engineer and at Microsoft Research as a research fellow. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT and completed his Masters degree at the MIT Media Lab.Technology Review magazine featured Wesley as a “Top 35 Under 35” innovator. Wesley’s accomplishments have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, and Fortune, and his story as a product founder is featured in Steven Levy’s best-selling Google book, “In The Plex.” As a fan of the arts, Wesley is also a board member of the Met Opera in New York City.
- Total investments:
- 114
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 28%
Last updated:
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Industries Wesley Chan invests in
Stages Wesley Chan invests in
Countries Wesley Chan invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$6.6M
- Series A
- $6.5M–$25M
- Series B
- $15M–$65M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 23 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (10%)
- SaaS 10 (9%)
- FinTech 10 (9%)
- Enterprise Software 9 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 31 (27%)
- Series A 23 (20%)
- Series B 19 (17%)
- Series C 9 (8%)
- Series D 6 (5%)
Country
- United States 55 (48%)
- Canada 2 (2%)
- Australia 2 (2%)
- Finland 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| SPRX builds TurboTax for the R&D Tax Credit. With the help of system, anyone may quickly and accurately prepare an R&D Tax Credit. To give some context, the R&D Credit is frequently said to as the most intricate and frequently examined tax credit. | $31M / Series B / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| Integrate is an ultra-secure project management platform for complex, multi-organization programs across government, defense, and enterprise. It replaces fragmented tools with a unified system that maintains a single, real-time source of truth across teams, organizations, and security boundaries—ensuring program integrity and enabling reliabledelivery of mission-critical outcomes. Backed by FPV Ventures, Integrate works with partners including the U.S. Space Force. | $17M / Series A / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| Yendo provides a credit card product that utilizes vehicle equity to offer consumers credit limits at various rates. The company's service works like a regular card, is accepted anywhere, and includes features like cash access and credit building options. Yendo offers a simple application process that results in a virtual card before thephysical card arrives. | $50M / Series B / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Aibidia is a FinTech company that provides AI-powered transfer pricing management solutions to multinational corporations. The company's connected, end-to-end platform provides organizations the ability to take full control of their business and implement considered tax strategies across the entire group. Its platform automates complexcalculations, risk assessments, and scenario modeling, helping companies optimize their tax strategies and ensure compliance. | $28M / Series B / Jun 04, 2025 | ||
| Monarch Money is a subscription-based platform that provides a personal finance program to track expenses. The platform aims to help consumers plan and manage their financial lives and adds all the transactions, across all bank accounts and credit cards, into one list, and creates a budget to understand where the money is going. | $75M / Series B / May 23, 2025 | ||
| Creating a frictionless API experience for your partners and customers no longer requires an army of engineers. Speakeasy’s platform makes crafting type-safe, idiomatic SDKs for enterprise APIs easy. That means you can unlock API revenue while keeping your team focused on what matters most: shipping new products. Make SDK generation part of yourAPI’s CI/CD and distribute libraries that users love at a fraction of the cost of maintaining them in-house. Try Speakeasy for free. | $15M / Series A / Oct 31, 2024 | ||
| Reken is an AI & cybersecurity firm building a new type of AI platform and products to protect against generative AI-enabled threats, including deepfake social engineering and automated fraud. The company was founded in 2024 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $10M / Seed / Jan 31, 2024 | ||
| Opsera provides an AI-powered DevOps platform that automates and streamlines the software delivery process. The company offers tools for CI/CD pipeline automation, DevSecOps, release orchestration, and toolchain management, aiming to enhance productivity, accelerate innovation, and improve security for software teams. Its AI-driven approachintroduces autonomous AI agents that dynamically analyze, adapt, and optimize software delivery in real-time. | $12M / Series A / Oct 04, 2023 | ||
| Aibidia is a FinTech company that provides AI-powered transfer pricing management solutions to multinational corporations. The company's connected, end-to-end platform provides organizations the ability to take full control of their business and implement considered tax strategies across the entire group. Its platform automates complexcalculations, risk assessments, and scenario modeling, helping companies optimize their tax strategies and ensure compliance. | $14.1M / Series A / May 15, 2023 | ||
| Yendo provides a credit card product that utilizes vehicle equity to offer consumers credit limits at various rates. The company's service works like a regular card, is accepted anywhere, and includes features like cash access and credit building options. Yendo offers a simple application process that results in a virtual card before thephysical card arrives. | $24M / Series A / Apr 03, 2023 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Felicis
Felicis is a venture capital firm that focuses on backing founders who are building iconic companies capable of transcending boundaries. The firm invests directly in their growth, supporting innovative ideas across various sectors, including AI, health, and security.
Felicis Contacts
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Victoria Treyger
General Partner and Managing Director
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Astasia Myers
General Partner
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Aydin Senkut
Founder & Managing Partner
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Daniel Bartus
Partner, Head of Research
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Dasha Maggio
Partner & Head of Founder Success
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FAQ
What does Wesley Chan invest in?
Wesley Chan invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 114 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 Wesley Chan's check size?
Wesley Chan typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$6.6M at Seed, $6.5M–$25M at Series A and $15M–$65M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Wesley Chan participates in.
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When did Wesley Chan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Wesley Chan closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 114 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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