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Jay Chen

Software Engineer at Valon

San Francisco, California

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $1,200,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $750,000.00

Skills

Unix
C++
C
Python
Linux (Ubuntu)
GDB
Microsoft Visual Studio
Windows
Algorithms
Data Structures
C#
Spark
Hadoop
Scala
Java
MapReduce
Git
Machine Learning
LaTeX
Distributed Systems

Education

Lists including Jay

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Ex-Uber employees who invest

146 people

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Ex-Microsoft employees who invest

302 people

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Based in SF

3078 people

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All Pre-Seed Investors

7974 people

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Ex and current Meta employees who invest

296 people

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Pre-seed Investors in San Francisco

994 people

Work Experience

V
Valon

2022

  • Software Engineer

    2022

    Reporting and Billing

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Afore Capital

2018

  • Product Partner

    2018

    If you're looking to raise a pre-seed round, please reach out :) https://www.afore.vc/

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Stripe

2020 - 2022

  • Software Engineer

    2020 - 2022

    Financial Automation

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Uber

2015 - 2019

  • Software Engineer

    2015 - 2019

    Mar 2018 - Nov 2019: Self-driving Vehicle Platform: Dispatch Jul 2017 - Mar 2018: Uber AI Labs Apr 2015 - Jul 2017: Rider/Driver Matching Papers published: - https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06563 (GECCO 2018) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.06568 (GECCO 2018) Blog post: https://eng.uber.com/deep-neuroevolution/

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Facebook

2013 - 2015

  • Software Engineer

    2013 - 2015

    Feed Ads

UCLA Department of Computer Science

2012 - 2013

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    2012 - 2013

    Databases

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Microsoft

2012 - 2012

  • Software Development Engineering Intern

    2012 - 2012

    Data Services