Bruce Chizen

Operating Executive and Investor

📍 Los Altos, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 26 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
VC🌍 United States
9
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Board Member
Jan 2022
Fullstory’s behavioral data platform helps technology leaders make better, more informed decisions. By injecting digital behavioral data into their analytics stack, our patented technology unlocks the power of quality behavioral data at scale–transforming every digital visit into actionable insights. With Fullstory, enterprise businesses move closer to their customers and closer to success. When organizations understand their customers like never before they’re able to create world-class experiences that increase funnel conversion, easily detect malicious behaviors and fraud, and identify their highest-value customers effortlessly. Fullstory is on a mission to make every business more customer centric–made possible only through true behavioral insights–and understanding the sentiment between the clicks.
Board Observer
Sep 2020
Mirakl is the global leader in platform business innovation. Mirakls suite of solutions provides enterprises with a transformative way to drive significant growth and efficiency in their online business. Since 2012, Mirakl has been pioneering the platform economy, empowering retail and b2b enterprises with the most advanced, secure and scalable technology to digitize and expand product assortment through marketplace and dropship, improve efficiency in supplier catalog management and payments, personalize shopping experiences, and boost profits through retail media. Mirakl is trusted by 450+ industry-leading businesses worldwide including Macy’s, Decathlon, Kroger, Airbus, Toyota Material Handling and Sonepar.
Board Observer
Feb 2020
At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting equitable learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our data-driven, research-backed cloud technology products transform how students learn, creating an environment where every child can thrive and rise to their potential. Based in North Billerica, Massachusetts, and with offices and remote employees throughout the United States, Curriculum Associates has been awarded many recognitions as a top employer. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day. If this speaks to you, we welcome you to explore opportunities on our team.
Board Member
Feb 2017
Make.TV opens up possibilities for broadcasters of all sizes to acquire, curate, program and distribute multiple hyper-local live video sources from anywhere in the world to any destination (including video viewing platforms and owned broadcast networks), enabling experiences that engage viewers longer, increase monetization opportunities and drive brand value. Make.TV’s Live Video Cloud technology is trusted by leaders in news, sport, entertainment and esports, including ESL/Turtle Entertainment, RTL / CBC, Swisscom and SWR/ARD. Make.TV is a division of LTN Global.
early stageBroadcast Media
Board Member
Jul 2008
AWS Elemental simplifies how content creators, rights holders, producers, broadcasters, and distributors use the cloud to build, deploy, and reinvent media workloads, making it easier to select the right tools and achieve faster time to value.
Board member
2008
Oracle is a global leader in AI, delivering the cloud infrastructure, data, and applications that organizations across the world trust to successfully achieve business outcomes at scale. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides fast, flexible, scalable AI infrastructure. With superior compute performance and network design, a comprehensive choice of AI services for developing and orchestrating agentic AI workflows at scale, and unrivaled data control, security, privacy, and governance, OCI is designed for AI workloads. It also gives customers the flexibility to run their workloads wherever they need by supporting public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, sovereign, and on-premises deployments. The Oracle AI Database is the only database with AI natively built in everywhere. By bringing AI to where data lives, the Oracle AI Database delivers enterprise-grade AI securely, cost-effectively, and at scale. In-database machine learning and vector search enable AI models to run where data resides. Support for multi-modal data (structured, unstructured, graph, vector) enables richer AI use cases. The Oracle AI Data Platform enables organizations to build, deploy, and govern AI agents and applications on top of private, secure, and distributed enterprise data. This enables organizations to operationalize AI without compromising data security or control. Oracle Applications embed AI directly into business workflows and industry processes to ensure AI is delivered in context, where work happens. They include the only applications suite that brings AI to every aspect of a business, with AI-powered ERP, HCM, and CX applications, and the Oracle Health Suite which provides applications for managing the entire healthcare ecosystem. Oracle also provides industry-specific cloud application suites for more than two dozen industries and NetSuite, the world’s first cloud computing company. This LinkedIn page serves as Oracle’s official global company page.
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2022
Board Member
Jan 2022
Fullstory’s behavioral data platform helps technology leaders make better, more informed decisions. By injecting digital behavioral data into their analytics stack, our patented technology unlocks the power of quality behavioral data at scale–transforming every digital visit into actionable insights. With Fullstory, enterprise businesses move closer to their customers and closer to success. When organizations understand their customers like never before they’re able to create world-class experiences that increase funnel conversion, easily detect malicious behaviors and fraud, and identify their highest-value customers effortlessly. Fullstory is on a mission to make every business more customer centric–made possible only through true behavioral insights–and understanding the sentiment between the clicks.
2021
Board Member
Feb 2021
Nexthink is the leader in Digital Employee Experience (DEX) management software, transforming the digital workplace for millions of employees worldwide. We empower IT teams with AI-driven, user-centric insights needed to proactively optimize technology performance, enhance productivity, reduce tickets, cut costs, and accelerate employee engagement at scale. As a Leader in the 2024 and 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Employee Experience Management Tools and the Forrester Wave™: EUEM Q3 2024, we’re dedicated to continuous innovation, bringing the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, and automation so IT teams can deliver a seamless digital experience for employees everywhere.
2020
Board Observer
Sep 2020
Mirakl is the global leader in platform business innovation. Mirakls suite of solutions provides enterprises with a transformative way to drive significant growth and efficiency in their online business. Since 2012, Mirakl has been pioneering the platform economy, empowering retail and b2b enterprises with the most advanced, secure and scalable technology to digitize and expand product assortment through marketplace and dropship, improve efficiency in supplier catalog management and payments, personalize shopping experiences, and boost profits through retail media. Mirakl is trusted by 450+ industry-leading businesses worldwide including Macy’s, Decathlon, Kroger, Airbus, Toyota Material Handling and Sonepar.
Board Observer
Feb 2020
At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting equitable learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our data-driven, research-backed cloud technology products transform how students learn, creating an environment where every child can thrive and rise to their potential. Based in North Billerica, Massachusetts, and with offices and remote employees throughout the United States, Curriculum Associates has been awarded many recognitions as a top employer. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day. If this speaks to you, we welcome you to explore opportunities on our team.
2017
Board Member
Feb 2017
Make.TV opens up possibilities for broadcasters of all sizes to acquire, curate, program and distribute multiple hyper-local live video sources from anywhere in the world to any destination (including video viewing platforms and owned broadcast networks), enabling experiences that engage viewers longer, increase monetization opportunities and drive brand value. Make.TV’s Live Video Cloud technology is trusted by leaders in news, sport, entertainment and esports, including ESL/Turtle Entertainment, RTL / CBC, Swisscom and SWR/ARD. Make.TV is a division of LTN Global.
early stageBroadcast Media
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