Jerry Chen
General Partner at Ava Protocol
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Chen is a General Partner at Greylock based in San Francisco who invests in seed to growth-stage enterprise software, AI, cloud, and application infrastructure companies. With nearly three decades of product, investing and operating experience—spanning leadership roles at VMware where he launched Cloud Foundry and VDI, to board and investor roles across companies like Blend, Chronosphere, Bluesky, and LlamaIndex—he blends technical product depth with investor discipline. He focuses on cloud, application and data infrastructure, security, big data/analytics, and mobile enterprise applications, and is a practitioner of cloud and security who still sees himself as a builder at heart. Jerry is known for partnering deeply with founders on product and go-to-market strategy, often leaning on hands-on knowledge of developer platforms and distributed systems. His portfolio includes both foundational infrastructure plays and consumer-facing social/identity experiments, reflecting a willingness to back technically ambitious teams across domains. He holds a BS from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School, combining engineering instincts with strategy and scaling expertise.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Harvard Business SchoolBS Industrial Engineering, BS Industrial Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (8)
governance10
reliability-engineering10
aws10
amazon-ecs10
reliability10
architecture10
security10
resiliency9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JerryChenZeyun/Build-resilient-applications-using-AWS-Backup
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:107 commits, 54 pushes in 28 days
JerryChenZeyun/aws-health-api-organization-view
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:160 commits, 170 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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