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Chip Hazard

General Partner and Co-Founder, Flybridge; Co-Founder and Investment Partner, XFactor Ventures; Board Member and early investor at MongoDB

Boston, Massachusetts

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner and Co-Founder

    2002

    Seed-stage venture capital firm based in Boston and New York City investing in Investing in ambitious founders building our AI-powered future. With over $1 billion under management across six seed funds and nine network funds, portfolio companies include BetterCloud, BitSight, Bowery, Chief, Codecademy (acq: SKILL), FalconX, Firebase (acq: GOOG), Infracommerce (BVMF: IFCM3), MadeiraMadeira, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Open English, Plastiq, and Splice.

2024

  • Board Member

    2024

  • Co-founder and Investment Partner

    2017

    XFactor Ventures is looking for tenacious female founders and mixed-gender founding teams attacking billion-dollar market opportunities. With three funds and a portfolio of over 85 companies, we are one of the most active venture investors in companies founded by women. We invest $125k into pre-seed or seed stage rounds and provide advice, mentorship, and connections to help our companies succeed. The XFactor investing partners are current successful operators, collectively raising over $800M in capital, hiring thousands of employees, but they are still in the trenches every day. Let's connect if you're a female founder working on a big idea!

2009

  • Board Member

    2009

    First invested and joined the board when the company was less than 10 people and about to ship version 1.0. Remain on the board following October 2017 IPO.

2023

  • Seed Investor

    2023

2022

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Seed Investor

    2021

2021

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Seed Investor

    2021

2021

  • Board Member

    2021