KC

Kelly Chen

Deep Tech Investor & Advisor | ex-Founding Partner NIF ($1.1B) | ex-Partner DCVC ($4B AUM)

United Kingdom

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $3,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2025 - 2025

  • Investor + Board Director

    2025 - 2025

    Groundbreaking robotics for critical subsea infrastructure, serving 1M km+ of pipelines, vessel hulls, and power cables.

2025 - 2025

  • Investor + Board Observer

    2025 - 2025

    Full length single molecule proteomics with unparalleled sensitivity. Benchtop, cost-effective, scalable. NIF co-led Series A with NIF's Ana Bernardo-Gancedo as Board Director.

2024 - 2025

  • Investor + Board Observer

    2024 - 2025

    Lightest high-performance advanced composite structures for aerospace, automotive, and defense - at unprecedented scale and efficiency. Co-led Series A with 8VC.

2024 - 2025

  • Investor + Board Observer

    2024 - 2025

    Revolutionizing quantum sensing with the world's smallest cold atom system; successfully tested + deployed. NIF led Seed with NIF's Trisha Saxena as Board Director.

  • Founding Partner

    2023 - 2025

    Inaugural €1B deep tech VC backing ambitious founders in both public and private sectors to secure the future for the Alliance's 1B citizens. Our focus areas include energy, AI, defence, climate, industrials, space, health, and biotechnology. NIF is the first multi-sovereign-backed fund and operates as a standalone VC, leading both early stage investments and fund-of-funds.

  • Partner

    2017 - 2023

    With $4B AUM, DCVC backs early stage entrepreneurs applying deep tech to transform giant industries. Our portfolio spans geospatial infrastructure, risk transformation, computational care, robotics, and AI, with a focus on pushing the global frontier of technology. I enjoy working on problems arising from fundamental population and labor driven shifts. I am especially excited about teams building revolutionary tech in AI, robotics, manufacturing, logistics, sustainability, and future of work.

2023 - 2023

  • Investor + Board Member

    2023 - 2023

    Groundbreaking computer vision + robotics to reinvent the economics of recycling, tackling the 2 billion tons of municipal waste annually.

2020 - 2023

  • Investor + Board Member

    2020 - 2023

    Advanced robotics and autonomy to revolutionize online grocery

2020 - 2023

  • Investor + Board Observer

    2020 - 2023

    Purpose-built advanced mobility, perception, autonomous navigation, and manipulation in logistics

  • Mentor - Artificial Intelligence, Supply Chain

    2019 - 2023

    Global nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.