Joanne Chen

Joanne Chen is a General Partner at Foundation Capital. Her official profile lists her practice as enterprise and says she studies the impact of AI on the enterprise, investing in AI-first B2B applications and data platforms that form building blocks for the automated enterprise. She is listed as a board member and investor in Jasper.AI, SafelyYou, Tonkean, Tennr, Arcade, CaptivateIQ, and others. The same profile says she was previously on the boards of TubiTV, Mya, and EraDB, each of which was acquired. Joanne began her career as an engineer at Cisco Systems, later co-founded a mobile gaming company, worked on IPO and M&A processes for technology companies at Jefferies & Company, advised venture firms at Probitas Partners, and was an angel investor at Hyde Park Angels before joining Foundation in 2014. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.