Alan Chiu

CEO, Enya

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Investor / Board Member
2016
Breakaway Labs helps people achieve their personal and professional goals by transforming their habits.
Investor / Board Observer
2014
Migo is an embedded lending platform that enables companies to extend credit to consumers and small businesses in their own apps. Migo builds proprietary ML algorithms to assess credit risk using the company’s data then automates credit facilities via cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, simplifying the complex world of lending with a simple API. Migo also expands economic access by enabling credit for populations ignored by traditional credit bureaus, in many cases providing life-changing opportunities to lower-income customers. Migo is headquartered in San Francisco and currently operates in Nigeria and Brazil.
Investor / Board Member
2014
StackStorm is an emerging leader of the third wave of operations automation. Built from the ground up with DevOps in mind, StackStorm’s vision is a world of self-driving data centers that learn over time how to better operate themselves. StackStorm solutions leverage existing configuration management and monitoring solutions to deliver automation that safely ties together today's loosely coupled, heterogeneous, ever changing cloud infrastructures. StackStorm was founded in 2013. After several acquisitions project has finally joined the Linux Foundation in 2019.
Investor / Board Observer
2014
AtScale enables smarter decision-making by accelerating the flow of data-driven insights. The company’s semantic layer platform simplifies, accelerates, and extends business intelligence and data science capabilities for enterprise customers across all industries. With AtScale, customers are empowered to democratize data, implement self-service BI and build a more agile analytics infrastructure for better, more impactful decision making. For additional information, visit www.atscale.com.
Investor / Board Observer
2012
Lex Machina provides lawyers with facts on which to base opinions – the core element of good lawyering. Lawyers can now predict the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce and craft successful strategies to win cases and close business Lex Machina combines data and software to provide the winning edge in the highly competitive business and practice of law. We call these insights Legal Analytics® because analytics involves the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data. We mine litigation data, revealing insights never before available about judges, lawyers, parties, and the subjects of the cases themselves, culled from millions of pages of litigation information. With Lex Machina, lawyers can combine insights gleaned from bottom-up data with traditional top-down controlling authority found in statutes, rules and court opinions. It’s new, it’s unorthodox and it’s extremely valuable.
Investor / Board Observer
2012
At Playnomics, we have a simple mission: Help Free-to-Play Games Earn From Everyone. How do we do it? By thinking differently. Playnomics is pioneering predictive marketing, applying predictive analytics and targeting platform to allow developers to nurture VIPs, and effectively monetizes all players. By behaviorally segmenting and scoring players, we are able to provide predictive insights and the ability to act on them in real time. Developers can then easily deploy automated campaigns for in-game messages, push notifications, and targeted ads to various player segments and track+tweak the message through our dashboards. Playnomics was founded in 2009 due to fundamental shift in how games were developed, published, and iterated (Free to Play & Multi-Platform). We are innovating the application of predictive data mining for games on a massive scale. By processing in-game player actions, and applying cutting edge machine learning algorithms, Playnomics dynamically profiles each player, and target them in a personalized -- and effective -- way. The world's most profitable brands use behavioral segmentation to predict their customers' behavior and profit from it. Now it's you turn to Reinvent Free.
Investor / Board Observer
2012
PayU Hub, The world’s leading payment orchestration platform for managing multiple providers in one scalable, secure and diverse solution PayU Hub (formerly ZOOZ) is a comprehensive orchestration layer for the implementation of payment strategies provided by PayU. PayU Hub (formerly ZOOZ) helps businesses consolidate their payment data, facilitate the addition of payment providers and optimize their payment stack and the return on their payment investment. PayU Hub (formerly ZOOZ) orchestration layer supports merchants by providing them the tools to route their payments, A/B test them and enhance their performance with smart reporting. It allows businesses to transform payment data into strategic decisions to increase their revenue and minimize their operational costs.
Investor / Board Observer
2012
SIPX (pronounced “sip-ex”) is an exciting new company based in Palo Alto, California. Backed by leading venture, corporate and angel investors, our mission is to simplify the complex processes involved in legally accessing digital content for the higher education marketplace. We provide a service that is seamless, comprehensive, easy-to-use and cost-effective for schools and online course providers, publishers and students alike. Building on research conducted by Stanford University, the SIPX team is dedicated to supporting the growing use of digital course material in higher education today.
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2021
Co-Founder
2021
Lower gas, faster, secured in Ethereum, supercharged with hybrid compute, NFT Bridging, Multi-chain & much more!
2020
Co-Founder & CEO
2020
About Enya Founded by a team of Stanford faculty and alum, Enya is a pioneer of software frameworks that simplify the construction of decentralized apps, prioritizing privacy from first principles. By embedding cryptographic privacy into decentralized apps, Enya returns control of sensitive data to its rightful owner — the individual. Enya is part of a growing community that believes now is the time to bake privacy-preserving technology into the broader infrastructure of the internet. The concepts of decentralizing control and restoring the power to the individual are the core reasons for developing Enya's computational framework.
Co-Founder & CEO
2020
About Enya Founded by a team of Stanford faculty and alum, Enya is a pioneer of software frameworks that simplify the construction of decentralized apps, prioritizing privacy from first principles. By embedding cryptographic privacy into decentralized apps, Enya returns control of sensitive data to its rightful owner — the individual. Enya is part of a growing community that believes now is the time to bake privacy-preserving technology into the broader infrastructure of the internet. The concepts of decentralizing control and restoring the power to the individual are the core reasons for developing Enya's computational framework.
2018
Co-Founder & Head of Business
2018
About Enya Founded by a team of Stanford faculty and alum, Enya is a pioneer of software frameworks that simplify the construction of decentralized apps, prioritizing privacy from first principles. By embedding cryptographic privacy into decentralized apps, Enya returns control of sensitive data to its rightful owner — the individual. Enya is part of a growing community that believes now is the time to bake privacy-preserving technology into the broader infrastructure of the internet. The concepts of decentralizing control and restoring the power to the individual are the core reasons for developing Enya's computational framework.
2017
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Sep 2017
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