Tom Chi
Founding Partner at At One Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2020 - Current
At One Ventures backs early-stage companies that are using disruptive deep tech to upend the unit economics of established industries.
Board Member
2023
Investor board member at Inevitable Technologies, a business-to-business platform that uses artificial intelligence, plant science and automation to boost farmer profitability and food quality. Inevitable invents and builds advanced growing systems so farmers can better manage their crops. The company's first product is a "Clean Propagation" system to ensure healthy seeds and robust seedling growth. Inevitable's hardware and software can be used on any type of farm – from indoor hydroponic farms and other "controlled environment agriculture" to open-field farming. Inevitable investors include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, At One Ventures, Zero Carbon Partners, R7 Partners, Amplify Partners, Pathbreaker Ventures and Eniac Ventures, among others.
Board Member
2022
Cuby builds better buildings for those that live/work/play in them by reshaping processes for those that deliver them.
Raised $6,421,604.00 from Type One Ventures and GOS Capital.
Lab Director
2017
Finding and accelerating the work of scientists and engineers developing breakthroughs that can be applied to scalable planetary restoration.
Partner
2017
Hack VC is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in the cryptocurrency, fintech, and marketplaces sectors.
Founder
2016
Dedicated to bringing the tools of hyper-learning to purpose-driven leaders worldwide. We have an intense focus on deepening the tools of human and team potential. This is part of an effort to help humanity become a net positive to nature.
EIR
2016 - 2020
Specializing in technical diligence and founder mentorship and support.
Crosslink Capital partners with founders that are market disrupters and category creators, typically at the Seed-Series A stage.
Advisor, Former CPO (Factory) & CEO (Factory X)
2014 - 2016
An experiment to change how work works. Worked on radically accelerating the pace at which products could be built and companies could be formed. Conducted numerous experiments on alternative legal and operating structures to better serve the creation of value and the extension of purpose at work.
Co-Founder
2012 - 2013
* Mentoring social entrepreneurs around the globe Working with Unreasonable, Rework, Factory 0, Ashoka * Served as VP of Product/Experience of Gigwalk On-demand mobile workforce * Founded Voltaic Labs We create tools that redefine the pace and possibility of entrepreneurship in our era. * Angel Investor & Advisor Mosaic, Edom, Quetsol, Unreasonable Adventures, Scott Street, et al
Head of Experience - Google X
2010 - 2012
Lead experience team defining new strategic opportunities for Google via rapid experimentation and productization. Specialized in rapid prototyping, product development and strategy, contributing to several projects and filing 41 patents. Hired several dozen folks to staff UX/ME/ID for the division.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Education
M.S. & B.S.
1995 - 1999