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You should wireframe
Talks about wireframing, software development and usability studies
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Ellen Chisa
Partner at boldstart ventures
Somerville, Massachusetts
Overview
Ellen Chisa is currently a Partner at boldstart ventures, specializing in investing in cybersecurity, developer tools, and SaaS sectors in the Boston/New England and San Francisco Bay Area regions. With a background in product management and software development, she has made significant investments in companies like Zuplo, Stellate, Liveblocks, and HumanFirst, showcasing her expertise in identifying and supporting promising startups. Ellen's career highlights include serving as CEO & Co-Founder of Dark and VP Product at Lola, demonstrating her leadership and strategic vision in the tech industry.
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Investing in enterprise software companies at inception.
Founder-in-Residence
2021 - 2022
Board Member
2022
Ready‑made collaborative features. Liveblocks provides customizable pre-built features that boost user engagement by adding collaboration to your product. All without derailing your roadmap.
Build amazing real-time collaborative products in minutes
Raised $6,400,000.00 from boldstart ventures, Seedcamp, Atlassian, Banana Capital and Kima Ventures.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Acquired by Shopify & The Guild https://stellate.co/blog/stellate-has-been-acquired
Stellate scales, protects, and optimizes your GraphQL API with edge caching, full observability, and advanced security for top performance.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management.
Cofounder/CEO
2017 - 2020
Cofounder and CEO of Dark, a programming language coupled to its editor and infrastructure. Launched first product and onboarded all original users, grew team to 10, raised $5.5M in capital.
Dark is holistic programming language, editor, and hosted infrastructure.
Raised $3,500,000.00 from Correlation Ventures, DCVC, XFactor Ventures, Cervin Ventures, NextView Ventures, Nitesh Banta, Script Capital, Backstage Capital, boldstart ventures and Promus Ventures.
VP Product
2015 - 2017
First employee and head of product for an AI travel product.
Product Manager
2012 - 2014
Product Manager for the Backer Experience - project discovery, activity feed, backer history, etc.
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform for creative projects such as movies, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, and photography.
Raised $110,000,000.00 from Yes VC.
Program Manager
2010 - 2012
Program Manager for the Office Hub on Windows Phone 8 and Microsoft Apps for Symbian: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/04/10/get-microsoft-office-for-symbian/
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Co-Founder
2008 - 2010
Collaborative LMS for middle schools.
Education
Investments
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