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Ellen Chisa

Partner at boldstart ventures

Somerville, Massachusetts

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.

2021

  • Investor/Board Member

    2021

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/

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