Chin Chao brings with him more than 18 years of experience in the venture capital and venture debt industries, including entrepreneurship, company building, business operations and strategy. Prior to Innoven, Chin was most recently the Co-Managing Director at Sirius SME, a venture capital firm he co-founded in 2008. And prior to Sirius SME, Chin was a Managing Director of Venture TDF Singapore and Venture TDF China. Notable investments from Sirius SME include Heptagon, Ong Joo Joo Food Industries and Reebonz. Notable investments from Venture TDF include AAC Acoustics, Alibaba, Baidu, Focus Media, Mediaring, Redback Networks and Savi Technologies.
During his time at Venture TDF in Singapore, Chin also co-founded the TechFinancing Centre, a joint-venture between KeppelTatLee Bank, Venture TDF and the Economic Development Board of Singapore. The TechFinancing Center provided innovative debt solutions to growth-oriented companies in Asia.
Chin received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He also received his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and is the author of three publications on technology and business law.
