Chip Hazard
Co-founder & General Partner
Flybridge
Chip Hazard is a Co-founder and General Partner at Flybridge whose stated interests include AI infrastructure, developer platforms, and agentic business applications.
Bio
Professional summary
Jeff Bussgang is Co-founder and General Partner at Flybridge. Flybridge lists his investment interests as agentic business applications, vertical SaaS, and fintech, and describes his experience as spanning entrepreneurship, investing, teaching, and writing. He serves on the Harvard Business School faculty, teaching Launching Technology Ventures, an MBA course focused on entrepreneurship and AI. Before Flybridge, he co-founded Upromise, a loyalty marketing and financial services company later acquired by Sallie Mae, and was on the executive team at Open Market, which went public in 1996. Flybridge notes that he has written three books, including The Experimentation Machine: Finding Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
pre-seedseedpost-Series A follow-on
Sector
agentic business applicationsvertical SaaSfintechAI
Thesis
Agentic business applicationsVertical SaaSFintech
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
UpromiseOpen Market
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Best fit for AI-enabled vertical SaaS or fintech startups that can show disciplined experimentation toward product-market fit.
Personalization hooks
- 1Reference a rigorous product-market-fit experimentation motion.
- 2Tie the pitch to AI-enabled vertical workflows or financial services pain points.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Flybridge profile highlights his latest book, The Experimentation Machine, focused on product-market fit in the age of AI.
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- Flybridge Capital PartnersGeneral Partner and Co-FounderPresent
- Harvard Business SchoolSenior LecturerPresent
Education
- Harvard Business SchoolMBA, Business Administration
Skills
Venture CapitalEntrepreneurship EducationEnterprise SaaSFintechThought Leadership
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