Shuo Chen

About Shuo Chen

Former founder, now investing in founders and teaching founders at Stanford and Berkeley. Former Air Cadet, voice actress, Guinness World Record pipa (Chinese guitar) player and gardening geek-Shuo Chen is a General Partner at IOVC, where she invests in early stage startups in Silicon Valley with a focus on future of work and enterprise/SaaS. She is also Faculty at UC Berkeley and Lecturer at Stanford, where she teaches entrepreneurship. Shuo is appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to serve as 1 of 13 voting members on California\'s Mental Health Commission, which includes overseeing ~$10 billion annually in state budget and advising the Governor or the Legislature on mental health policy.In her venture role, Shuo has invested in companies now acquired by Goldman Sachs, Ford, Caterpillar, Binance and Dialpad, as well as now unicorns including Boom, Checkr, Grubmarket, Instacart and Rescale. She has helped portfolio companies close deals with Amazon, Apple, Google, Mercedes-Benz and NASA among others, as well as scaled portfolio companies into Europe and Asia.Prior, Shuo worked at Goldman Sachs in investment banking, where she worked with clients including Alibaba and Tencent, as well as represented the firm on the Board of Women in Finance. Before that, Shuo was at PwC, where she worked on Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola and LinkedIn’s $119 million acquisition of SlideShare. Shuo has also co-authored one of the leading books on financial regulations published by Cambridge University Press in 2019, and sits on the Advisory Board of Forbes China, where she advises on content and awards for Asian Americans in North America-For investing: s•••@iovc.ioFor Berkeley students: s•••@berkeley.eduFor Stanford students: s••••@stanford.eduFor Harvard students: s•••••••@fas.harvard.eduWebsite: shuo.vc

Experience

1. Instructor

   Stanford Continuing Studies

   Jan 2023 — Present

   Instructor for BUS 144 \"How to Start and Grow a Startup: For Full-Time and Fractional Founders\"

Education

• The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  Juris Doctor

• University of California, Berkeley

  Bachelor of Arts & Bachelor of Science | Executive Scholars Program | Industry Fellow, Major in Business Administration, Economics & Rhetoric | Minor in Public Policy

• University of Oxford

  L'Académie de Paris, French Language and Literature, Art and Architecture

• Le Cordon Bleu Paris

  Basic Cuisine Certificate

• University of Cambridge

  L'Académie de Paris, French Language and Literature, Art and Architecture

• Macquarie University

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Finance and Law

• Harvard University

  Undergraduate Exchange Program

• Crofton House School

  High School Diploma

Skills

• Social Networking
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Economics
• Leadership
• Accounting
• Research
• French
• Bloomberg
• Corporate Finance
• Social Media
• Photoshop
• Indesign
• Financial Analysis
• Microsoft Word
• English
• Event Planning
• Matlab
• Microsoft Office
• Valuation
• Finance
• Public Speaking
• Outlook
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Dreamweaver
• Capital Iq
• Business Strategy
• Non-Profits
• Onesource
• Fundraising
• Project Management
• Mandarin
• Statistics
• Data Analysis
• Nonprofits