EC

Ellen Chisa

Partner at boldstart ventures

Somerville, Massachusetts

Skills

User Interface Design
Project Management
Software Development
Product Management
Microsoft Office
Awesomeness
User Experience Design
Agile Project Management
Agile Methodologies
User Experience
User Scenarios
Leadership
Project Planning
PowerPoint
Testing
Mobile Applications
Mobile Technology
Windows Phone
Mobile Office
Philanthropy

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2022

  • Founder-in-Residence

    2021 - 2022

    Working with engineers before and while they start their companies, esp. on product and developer communities.

  • Investor/Board Member

    2022

    APIs for building multiplayer experiences.

  • Investor/Board Member

    2021

Various

2017

  • Angel Investor

    2017

    HumanFirst, GraphCDN, Skydio, Drafted (Upwork), and Pinch (Chime), and many more unannounced.

2017 - 2020

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2017 - 2020

    Co-founder and CEO of Dark, a programming language coupled to its editor and infrastructure. Launched first product and onboarded all original users, grew team to 10, raised $5.5M in capital.

  • Advisor

    2016 - 2018

2015 - 2017

  • VP Product

    2015 - 2017

  • Instructor

    2015 - 2016

    Fall 2016: Teaching Human Factors and Interface Design w/ Amon Miller. Spring 2015: Designed and taught an alumni seminar on Product Management. Full syllabus and curriculum available: http://blog.ellenchisa.com/2015/02/05/pmolin-syllabus/

Rev Boston

2016 - 2016

  • #rev2 Participant

    2016 - 2016

2014 - 2016

  • Instructor

    2014 - 2016

    Taught the 10 week Product Management course and periodically teach Product Management Bootcamp. https://generalassemb.ly/education/product-management https://generalassemb.ly/education/product-management-bootcamp