Clint Chao
General Partner at Moment Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder and General Partner
2013 - Current
Early stage IT venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA investing in B2B tech companies focused on transforming the Future of Industries in and across industry verticals including logistics, food, healthcare, creator, travel and more. Current active investments include Flowspace, Bruviti AI, CharacterQuilt, Ambient, Tendrel, Pod Foods, Rafay, Swing Education, Validere, Alto Solutions and other unannounced investments. http://www.momentventures.com
Moment Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the future of work.
Member Board of Directors
2023
Founded by the original graduates of the University of California in 1872, the Cal Alumni Association today represents more than half a million alumni living throughout the world. Go Bears! https://alumni.berkeley.edu/
CAA provides all Cal graduates with rewarding connections to the University, to fellow alumni, and to current students.
Investor and Board Member
2017
Flowspace is one of the largest technology-based on-demand warehouse and logistics platforms for fulfillment and storage. Moment Ventures led the seed round and have since co-invested alongside Canvas, the Build Group and Industrious Ventures. http://www.flow.space
Flowspace powers independent fulfillment.
Raised $46,520,000.00 from Industrious Ventures, Canvas Ventures, BuildGroup, Moment Ventures, Y Combinator, eGateway Capital and 1984 Ventures.
Seed Investor
2024
Bruviti AI is an agentic AI startup building technology to streamline the complexities of service operations for enterprises building connected endpoint products. In 2024, Moment participated in a seed investment with DYDX Ventures.
Bruviti is applying unique AI and ML technologies to diagnose service problems quickly and accurately for support and service teams.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Marcone Supply.
Pre-Seed Investor
2024
GTM Powered by Voice of Customer. Currently in stealth. Moment became a pre-seed investor in 2024.
Investor and Board Observer
2023
Tendrel is a workforce quality and optimization platform built for frontline industries. Moment co-led the Company's seed round with Zenda VC, and joined by co-investors Bread & Butter Ventures, Everywhere VC, Supply Change Capital and Chingona Ventures. http://www.tendrel.io
Investor and Board Member
2019
Pod Foods is a full-service digital B2B distribution and logistics platform for food and beverage brands to connect with store and enterprise buyers around the country. Moment led the seed round and have welcomed additional investors M12 Ventures and Industrious Ventures. http://www.podfoods.co
Pod Foods is a logistics and technology enabled B2B marketplace, connecting brands directly with retailers.
Raised $18,567,813.00 from Moment Ventures, Barrel Ventures, XFactor Ventures, Unshackled Ventures, Relish Works, K2 Global, Function Investments, XRC Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund and Graphene Ventures.
Investor
2016
Swing Education's innovative workforce infrastructure platform connects schools with substitute teachers and families with remote learning resources. Moment Ventures led the company's seed round and has since welcomed investors Apax, Reach Capital, GV and Owl Ventures. http://www.swingeducation.com
Swing Education provides substitute teachers to fill hard- to-fill staff absences.
Raised $60,840,000.00 from Apax Partners and Reach Capital.
Investor
2019
AltoIRA is a digital fintech platform enabling investments into alternative assets (PE, VC, Real Estate, Crypto, direct, etc) using retirement accounts (IRAs). Moment led the seed round and have since welcomed additional investors Unusual Ventures and Advanced Venture Partners. http://www.altoira.com
Investor
2017
Rafay enables developers to automate the distribution, operations, cross-region scaling and lifecycle management of containerized microservices across public and private clouds, and service provider networks. Moment Ventures invested in Rafay's Series A and seed rounds, which include Ridge Ventures, Costanoa and ForgePoint Capital. http://www.rafay.co
Education
B.S.
1980 - 1984