[Webinar] Meet the VC: Roger chen | Silverton Partners
November 11, 2022
Roger Chen
Silverton Partners
Meet the VC is a monthly panel event hosted by Escalon and its partners. This month, we had an engaging discussion with Roger Chen of Silverton Partners to discuss fundraising, investment thesis, the current investment climate, with our partners Pacific Western Bank, Kastner Gravelle & Insperity.
About Roger Chen
Roger has been an active investor and technology leader for over 10 years. He is currently a Partner with Silverton Partners, a leading venture capital firm that invests in early stage software and consumer businesses with high growth potential. Roger is a board director and/or investor in AllVoices, Apprentice, Billie, Copper Cow Coffee, Fama, Fetch, Kronologic, Literati, Living Security, Mobile Tech RX, Novo Labs, OneDay, Clerk, Restream, RouteFusion, Rx Redefined, TIV, and Wheel.
Prior to joining Silverton in 2017, Roger was a Principal at Genacast Ventures in New York, a boutique seed-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Comcast Ventures focused on B2B software investing. While at Genacast, he was involved with investments in BigID, DrayNow, and Uptycs.
Before his investing career, Roger worked as an engineer turned PM at Google in Mountain View where he led various initiatives within Google Maps and Chrome. Roger studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Michigan and holds an MBA from The Wharton School.
About Silverton Partners:
The Silverton team partners with entrepreneurs who are dedicated to tackling growth markets and building lasting companies. In partnering with Silverton, companies benefit from its vast network and expertise from decades of growing and investing in successful businesses. Silverton Partners is based in Austin, TX, and was the initial institutional investor for AlertMedia, Billie, SailPoint, Silicon Labs, Storable, Self Financial, TurnKey Vacation Rentals, Wheel, WP Engine and The Zebra among others. For more information, please visit silvertonpartners.com.
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Meet our partners
Pacific Western Bank:
We are not like other banks. At Pacific Western Bank, relationship banking is not the exception, but the rule.
Pacific Western Bank is a commercial bank with over $40 billion in assets headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with executive offices in Denver, Colorado.
The Bank offers national lending products including asset-based, equipment, and real estate loans and treasury management services to established middle-market businesses on a national basis. The Bank also offers venture banking products including a comprehensive suite of financial services focused on entrepreneurial and venture-backed businesses and their venture capital and private equity investors, with offices located in key innovation hubs across the United States.
Kastner Gravelle LLP is a business law firm serving emerging growth companies, entrepreneurs and investors.
Our expertise includes debt and equity financings, intellectual property licensing, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, and business and fund formation. We also assist with day-to-day corporate needs, counseling clients on corporate governance, intellectual property, tax, executive compensation, and labor and employment issues.
Our clients include angel, venture and private equity-backed technology companies, consumer brands, financial service and healthcare providers, and venture investors.
Since 1986, Insperity’s mission has been to help businesses succeed so communities prosper. Offering the most comprehensive suite of scalable HR solutions available in the marketplace, Insperity is defined by an unrivaled breadth and depth of services and level of care. Through an optimal blend of premium HR service and technology, Insperity delivers the administrative relief, reduced liabilities and better benefit solutions that businesses need for sustained growth. With 2020 revenues of $4.3 billion and more than 80 offices throughout the U.S., Insperity is currently making a difference in thousands of businesses and communities nationwide.
