Chenxi Wang
General Partner at Rain Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing General Partner
2017 - Current
As the founder and General Partner of Rain Capital, I am responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and managing investments in early-stage technology companies. We invested in Claroty, Project Discovery, Ox Security, Oasis Labs, Elisity, Mitiga, JupiterOne, and many other innovative startups.
Rain Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund focusing on transformative technologies in the Cybersecurity, AI, and analytics space.
Member of the Board of Directors
2019
Serving on Audit Committee, Environmental & Sustainability Committee.
Board of Advisors, Entrepreneurship council, School of Computer Science
2025
Investor & board observer - Various Companies
2021
Working with management of the portfolio companies to define product and GTM strategies, including achieving product-market fit, marketing and sales execution, fundraising, and scaling operations.
ProjectDiscovery is an open-source software that simplifies security operations for engineers and developers.
Raised $26,700,000.00 from Rain Capital, Point72, Caleb Sima, Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Talha Tariq, Mango Capital, CRV, SignalFire and Guillermo Rauch.
Founder & Board member
2022
Investor
2018
Claroty is a cybersecurity firm that provides products and solutions to protect infrastructure and industrial networks from cyber threats.
Raised $740,000,000.00 from Princeville Capital, Bosch Ventures, Constellation Technology Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, Bosch Ventures, Chevron Technology Ventures, SE Ventures, Princeville Capital, Standard Investments and Toshiba Digital Solutions.
Investor
2018 - 2023
Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology.
Raised $45,000,000.00 from Breyer Labs, Pantera Capital and Electric Capital.
Investor (acquired by Coinlist)
2018 - 2022
Investor (acquired by Sophos)
2018 - 2021
One of the first investors in Capsule8, from seed to exit (acquired by Sophos)
High-performance attack protection for Linux production environments – whether containerized, virtualized, or bare-metal, on-prem or cloud
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Intel Capital, Rain Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and ClearSky.
Member Board Of Directors
2017 - 2019
The Open Web Application Security Project is a non-profit organization focused on improving the security of software.