Shuo Chen

Shuo Chen, PhD, JD 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 also teaches entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley and Stanford.

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. Her portfolio companies include ones providing products and services for Aramco, and she actively engages with Aramco Ventures on investment related opportunities.

Outside of venture, Shuo is appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to serve as 1 of 14 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. She also serves on the SYNC Advisory Board, where she advises across a number of projects, including most recently the Sync Digital Wellbeing Summit at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture at Ithra this past May. Prior, Shuo worked at Goldman Sachs in investment banking and PwC in advisory, 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.