Patrick Chung
General Partner at Xfund
Palo Alto, California
Invests in
Sectors:
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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$3,000,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Patrick
Investments
Uvaro
Total Funding: $21M
Guideline
Total Funding: $340M
Curebase
Total Funding: $58M
kea
Total Funding: $17M
Landit
Total Funding: $19M
Nebula Genomics
Total Funding: $4M
Zumper
Total Funding: $140M
Halo Neuroscience
Total Funding: $24M
Service
Total Funding: $9M
Parts Market
Total Funding: $2M
Work Experience
2012
Managing General Partner
2012
Patrick is Managing General Partner of Xfund. Prior to Xfund, Patrick was a partner at NEA and led the firm’s consumer and seed investment practices. He is a director of 23andMe (NASDAQ: ME) and Philo, and led investments in Guideline, Halo Neuro, IFTTT, Landit, Nebula Genomics, NewtonX, Rock Health, ThirdLove, and Zumper. Past investments include Segment (acquired by Twilio), Kensho (acquired by S&P Global), Plaid (almost acquired by Visa), Pulse (acquired by LinkedIn), Loopt (acquired by Green Dot), GoodGuide (acquired by Underwriters Laboratories), Ravel Law (acquired by Lexis-Nexis), Xfire (acquired by Viacom), and Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM). Prior to joining NEA, Patrick helped to grow ZEFER, an Internet services firm (acquired by NEC) to more than $100 million in annual revenues and more than 700 people across six global offices. Prior to ZEFER, Patrick was with McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in hardware, software, and services companies. Patrick received a joint JD-MBA degree from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Patrick was a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned a Master of Science degree. Patrick earned his A.B. degree at Harvard College in Environmental Science. He is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars, was an elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association, and a member of the Committee to Visit Harvard College. He is also an Associate of the Creative Destruction Lab at the University of Toronto.
2005 - 2014
Head of Consumer investing practice, Head of Seed investing practice
2005 - 2014
NEA is the nation’s largest and most active venture capital firm, with over $27 billion under management. Elected Partner in under three years (youngest partner elected at that time). Led investments in 23andMe (NASDAQ: ME), GoodGuide (acquired by Underwriters Laboratories), IFTTT, Kensho (acquired by S&P Global), Loopt (acquired by Green Dot), Philo, Plaid (almost acquired by Visa), Pulse (acquired by LinkedIn), Ravel Law (acquired by Lexis-Nexis), Rock Health, Segment (acquired by Twilio), ThirdLove, Xfire (acquired by Viacom), Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM), and Zumper.