Siqi Chen

Siqi Chen

Runway

About

Role

Founder and CEO

Type

Full-time operator, Angel

Bio

Siqi is the founder and CEO of Runway, an a16z funded startup enabling operators to understand their business without needing a degree in finance.

As an operator and founder: Siqi was CEO of Sandbox VR (a16z), VP of Product and Growth at Postmates (acquired by Uber), CEO of Hey, Inc (Google-funded, acquired by Postmates), Head of Product at Zynga (IPO 2011), CEO of Serious Business (funded by Lightspeed, acquired by Zynga)

Siqi is an investor in nearly a hundred companies like Clubhouse, Amplitude, Pipe, and Italic.

Previously, Siqi worked at NASA JPL, where he was the only person to ever receive a Congressional Space Act award while in school, for his contributions to machine vision technology on the Mars Exploration Rovers.

About Investments

I invest in whatever I find fun and potentially big.

Investments

Stages

Seed, Series A, Series B and beyond

Check Range

$50K-$100K

Geography

Global

Leads Rounds

Sometimes

Investment Highlights

Amplitude, Clubhouse, Italic, Pipe

Get in touch

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Disclaimers and footnotes

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