Jacky Chen
Managing Partner – Roadster Capital
Listening and sharing – Jacky Chen
“I’d rather hire one strong guy instead of two or three average people because, in a startup, you compete with your competitors; they are well established.”
ABOUT
Jacky Chen is dedicated to angel investment since 2014 and has built up a portfolio of more than thirty startup companies in Canada and the US. His target investments are the startups with disruptive technologies and business potential in the industries of enterprise software, ICT, AI, MedTech, and Advanced Manufacturing.
Jacky has acquired concrete business experiences as a successful founder in the startup ecosystem and an executive of Fortune 500 companies over two decades. His remarkable accomplishments range from building startups from scratch to leading a billion-dollar business with leverage of 14,000 enterprise channel partners.
The unique journey has shaped Jacky’s outstanding of investing in early startups. Jacky holds the degrees of Mater’s E.E. and MBA, and he graduated from CEIBS and The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania.