Clint Chao
Co-Founder and General Partner at Moment Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Invests in
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Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$1,500,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- Uo
Lists including Clint
Investments
twine
Total Funding: $3M
Pantastic
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Laylo
Total Funding: $6M
Merri
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Advekit
Total Funding: $6M
Pod Foods Co
Total Funding: $13M
tara.ai
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Next Force Technology
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Copia (formerly Feeding Forward) YC W'16
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Entytle, Inc.
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Work Experience
2013
Co-Founder and General Partner
2013
Early stage IT venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA investing in B2B tech companies focused on transforming the Future of Industries in and across industry verticals including logistics, food, healthcare, creator, travel and more. Current active investments include Flowspace, Bruviti AI, Barndoor AI, CharacterQuilt, Ambient, Tendrel, Pod Foods, Rafay, Swing Education, Validere, Alto Solutions and other unannounced investments. http://www.momentventures.com
Member Board of Directors
2023
Founded by the original graduates of the University of California in 1872, the Cal Alumni Association today represents more than half a million alumni living throughout the world. Go Bears! https://alumni.berkeley.edu/
2020
Member of the Board of Advisors
2020
The Diamante Scholars program helps high school students with overlooked and unseen potential identify a career path and build the professional skills for success. https://diamantescholars.com/
2017
Investor and Board Member
2017
Flowspace is one of the largest technology-based on-demand warehouse and logistics platforms for fulfillment and storage. Moment Ventures led the seed round and have since co-invested alongside Canvas, the Build Group and Industrious Ventures. http://www.flow.space
2024
Investor
2024
Founded in 2024, Barndoor AI is the first and only Control Plane for the agentic enterprise, giving IT and security the guardrails they need, and business teams the freedom to move fast without the risk. Moment invested in Barndoor AI's first institutional seed round led by Crosslink Ventures. http://www.barndoor.ai
2024
Seed Investor
2024
Bruviti AI is an agentic AI startup building technology to streamline the complexities of service operations for enterprises building connected endpoint products. In 2024, Moment participated in a seed investment with DYDX Ventures.
2024
Pre-Seed Investor
2024
GTM Powered by Voice of Customer. Currently in stealth. Moment became a pre-seed investor in 2024.
2023
Investor and Board Observer
2023
Tendrel is a workforce quality and optimization platform built for frontline industries. Moment co-led the Company's seed round with Zenda VC, and joined by co-investors Bread & Butter Ventures, Everywhere VC, Supply Change Capital and Chingona Ventures. http://www.tendrel.io
2019
Investor and Board Member
2019
Pod is a technology platform serving omnichannel e-commerce brands at every stage of growth. Their national network of logistics allows retailers across the country to have access to innovative brands and products with the fastest speed to shelf in the industry. Moment led the seed round and have welcomed additional investors M12 Ventures and Industrious Ventures. http://www.podfoods.co
2016
Investor
2016
Swing Education's innovative workforce infrastructure platform connects schools with substitute teachers and families with remote learning resources. Moment Ventures led the company's seed round and has since welcomed investors Apax, Reach Capital, GV and Owl Ventures. http://www.swingeducation.com