Primary Job Title Managing Partner Primary Organization FirsthandVC
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Simon Chan is the Managing Partner of Firsthand Ventures. He was the co-founder and CEO of PredictionIO which was acquired by Salesforce to become the Einstein platform. He then served as a product executive launching core AI platform initiatives in the company. Simon has years of startup investment experience through his own capital as well as
with a number of VC firms. He is also an LP in multiple funds. Simon holds a B.S.E degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Ph.D. degree in Machine Learning from University College London.
