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Stephen Chau

Co-Founder & CEO at Cove

Palo Alto, California

Angel
Scout
Founder
Product Operator

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $100,000.00

Skills

Product Marketing
Start-ups
Analytics
Technical Leadership
Mergers
E-commerce
Usability Testing
Corporate Development
Product Management
Investments
Mobile Devices
Mobile Applications
Strategic Partnerships
Investment Banking
Venture Capital
SaaS
Mergers & Acquisitions
User Experience

Education

Lists including Stephen

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Ex-Uber employees who invest

146 people

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All Series A Investors

14752 people

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All Seed Investors

19695 people

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Ex-Google employees who invest

601 people

Investments

Faire (formerly Indigo Fair)

Series E

Total Funding: $190M

Popshop Live

Seed Round

Total Funding: $26M

Bravo Sierra

Seed

Total Funding: $48M

Parative Customer Intelligence Platform

Seed

Total Funding: $9M

Clubhouse

Series A

Total Funding: $120M

Expo

Seed

Total Funding: $28M

Clubhouse / Alpha Exploration Co

Series A

Total Funding:

Ditto Tech

Seed

Total Funding:

Evergreen

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

BanditML

Seed

Total Funding:

Work Experience

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Cove

2023

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2023

    Cove is a new way to work together with AI. Sign up for early access at www.cove.ai

Various

2013

  • Angel Investor and Advisor

    2013

    Investor and/or Advisor for some startups I love, led by founders I admire: All Day Kitchens (formerly Virtual Kitchen Co), Alto Pharmacy, Clubhouse, Faire, Houm, Lean, Magic Eden, Mill, Nelo, Nuro, Otter, Outgo, Pachama, Pepper, PermitFlow, The Pill Club, Pinwheel, Popshop Live, Statsig, TrueNorth, Zip and more

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Sequoia Capital

2018

  • Sequoia Capital Scout

    2018

    Angel, Seed, Series A investor through Sequoia's scout program. Let me know if I can help with what you're building

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Uber

2014 - 2020

  • Senior Director of Product Management

    2014 - 2020

    Head of product for Uber's new businesses (Uber Everything). Founding member of the team, started Uber Eats and scaled it to a $25 billion run rate business across over 6000 cities and 43 countries in 4 years

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GV

2014 - 2014

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2014 - 2014

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Google

2004 - 2014

  • Senior Product Manager, Google Now

    2012 - 2014

    Product lead for Google Now's new features team. Launched new predictive Now cards, introduced Now to new clients such as the Android OS, Chrome, Android Wear and helped scale the product to hundreds of millions of monthly actives

  • Senior Product Manager, Google Maps

    2006 - 2012

    Led Google's early imagery, 3D and map data programs. Co-invented Street View, Google’s fastest growing product of 2008 and product of the year from Time Magazine, PC World and Scientific American

  • Manager, Corporate Development

    2004 - 2006

    Founding member of the team and responsible for all consumer acquisitions and investments. Closed 13 deals including Where2 (aka Google Maps), Keyhole (aka Google Earth) and Android

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Goldman, Sachs and Co.

2002 - 2004

  • Analyst, Investment Banking

    2002 - 2004

    Advised technology companies on M&A and corporate finance transactions. Client team member for companies such as Microsoft and Apple Computer. Worked on the Google IPO

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Stanford Student Enterprises

2001 - 2002

  • Director, Investments Division

    2001 - 2002

    While a student, managed the $9 million investment portfolio of a completely student-run campus enterprise

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Financial Engines

2000 - 2000

  • Software Engineer

    2000 - 2000

    Built the frontend of the first independent online investment advice platform, designed by William F. Sharpe (1990 Nobel Prize in Economics)