Robin Chan

Robin Chan is the Managing Partner at Ascendent Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Columbia University and previously served as a General Partner at Luminary Ventures before its exit to DFJ. Earlier in his career, Chan was an early employee at Yahoo and GrandCentral, which was subsequently acquired by Google to become Google Voice. Throughout his two-decade career, he has managed over $100 million in funds and built a portfolio of more than 50 companies, including notable exits such as Credit Karma's $7.1 billion acquisition by Intuit. After recently raising a $110 million fourth fund and backing Perplexity AI, Chan maintains a primary investment focus on seed and Series A startups across the consumer internet, fintech, and artificial intelligence sectors.