Chris Chen
Venture Partner at Like.fm, Inc. (dba Instapainting.com)
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolChris Chen is a venture partner and startup founder based in Tokyo with 12 years of professional experience and a background in building and scaling e-commerce marketplaces. As CEO of Like.fm/Instapainting.com he led a tech-forward marketplace integrating auction theory, React/GraphQL frontends and OCaml/ReasonML backends while deploying CNN models for product workflows, backed by Y Combinator and SV Angel. He currently advises startups through Pioneer Fund and Orange Collective and maintains ongoing ties with the Y Combinator portfolio. Comfortable bridging product, engineering and investor perspectives, Chris combines hands-on technical fluency with early-stage operational experience. A longtime Microsoft Word user and seasoned operator, he brings a pragmatic approach to translating research-driven features into customer-facing platforms.
12 years of coding experience
Y Combinator
Stackoverflow
1reputation
190reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (200)
localization10
api10
intl10
nodejs10
mongodb10
css10
orm10
odm10
python10
language-server-protocol10
exchange10
icu10
graphql-schema10
messageformat10
javascript10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
chrischen/2x2048
Mar 2014 - Oct 2016
A small clone of 1024 (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.veewo.a1024)
Contributions:25 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 7 months
detailsgoogle-play
chrischen/current.js
May 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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