Howdy. Somehow you've made your way here...
...to my hiding place on the web.
Anyhow, I'm an investor at Google Ventures.
I invest in early stage web & mobile startups, such as Parse (exited to Facebook), Astrid (exited to Yahoo!), Firespotter Labs (they built Uberconference), and Crittercism. I also invest in and work with companies solving deep technical problems that will change the world such as CoolPlanet Energy Systems (turns cellulosic waste into negative-carbon high-octane gasoline), Transphorm (creates next generation power electronics semiconductors), and iPerian (turns skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells). I enjoy working with brilliant and creative founders who want to build disruptive businesses.
In a previous life I led the acquisitions of Urchin Software and MeasureMap and worked with an amazing team of founders for several years to start and launch Google Analytics. I also acquired GrandCentral and Gizmo5 and worked with the founders to build and launch Google Voice.
In my spare time, I enjoy taking photos, and having adventures in fun places around the world. I like starting & inventing stuff and somehow discovered that I received a couple of patents (eleven now, I think). And for some reason a few people found it interesting to write about me on investing and in a book about Google.
Stuff: @weschan | Linkedin | Wikipedia | Google Ventures
Anyhow, I'm an investor at Google Ventures.
I invest in early stage web & mobile startups, such as Parse (exited to Facebook), Astrid (exited to Yahoo!), Firespotter Labs (they built Uberconference), and Crittercism. I also invest in and work with companies solving deep technical problems that will change the world such as CoolPlanet Energy Systems (turns cellulosic waste into negative-carbon high-octane gasoline), Transphorm (creates next generation power electronics semiconductors), and iPerian (turns skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells). I enjoy working with brilliant and creative founders who want to build disruptive businesses.
In a previous life I led the acquisitions of Urchin Software and MeasureMap and worked with an amazing team of founders for several years to start and launch Google Analytics. I also acquired GrandCentral and Gizmo5 and worked with the founders to build and launch Google Voice.
In my spare time, I enjoy taking photos, and having adventures in fun places around the world. I like starting & inventing stuff and somehow discovered that I received a couple of patents (eleven now, I think). And for some reason a few people found it interesting to write about me on investing and in a book about Google.
Stuff: @weschan | Linkedin | Wikipedia | Google Ventures
