Carl Chan

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Alden Bridge Partners

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 16 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2022
VC🌍 United States
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Oct 2022
Alation is the leading agentic data intelligence platform. We empower people and AI agents with trusted data and knowledge required to deliver business outcomes. Global enterprises such as Cisco, DocuSign, and Nasdaq, and 40% of the Fortune 100, rely on Alation to govern and scale their AI initiatives. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alation has been recognized five times by Inc. Magazine as one of the Best Workplaces. To learn more, visit www.alation.com.
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Jun 2022
AppOmni pioneered the SSPM category in 2018 and now leads the next frontier: securing AI in SaaS. Our SaaS and AI security platform gives security teams unified visibility into posture, access, third-party connections, and AI-related activity — applying the same SSPM principles to AI security. With continuous monitoring, real-time threat detection, and autonomous correlation of security signals, AppOmni helps enterprises identify, respond to, and block threats across their entire SaaS environment. Recognized as a Frost Radar™ 2025 Leader and Great Place To Work®, AppOmni continues to set the standard for innovation and customer value in SaaS security. The largest and fastest-growing global enterprises across industries trust AppOmni to secure their SaaS applications.
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May 2022
Starburst was founded by the inventors of OS Trino so that data-driven companies could have a full-featured open data lakehouse platform powered by the #1 SQL analytics engine. Our end-to-end analytics platform includes the capabilities needed to discover, organize, consume, and share data with industry-leading price-performance for cloud and on-premises workloads. We believe the lakehouse should be the center of gravity, but support accessing data outside the lake when needed. With Starburst, teams can access more complete data, run scalable analytics, lower the cost of infrastructure, use tools best suited to their needs, and avoid vendor lock-in. Trusted by companies like Apache Corporation, Comcast, Doordash, DBS Bank, and VMware, Starburst helps you make better decisions faster on all data. Join us! -- Our company was founded in an unusual way; with customers and revenue from the beginning! Our growth is already ahead of some of the most successful software start-ups, and we don’t plan on slowing down. We believe our opportunity is huge. Every large company in the world suffers from a data silo problem. Traditional data warehouse products approach the problem with old solutions that breed inefficiency and ultimately can’t help business analysts run fast analytics on all their data. This prevents the business from making better decisions to improve their company’s performance. Starburst provides a modern solution that addresses these data silo & speed of access problems. Starburst helps enterprises harness the value of Trino, the fastest distributed query engine available today, by adding the tools and 24x7 support that meet the needs for big data access at scale. Ultimately, Starburst helps organizations run analytics anywhere to make better business decisions. We’re building a team of all-stars: engineers, customer success, sales, and marketing pros who are at the top of their game. If this sounds like you, check out our open roles: starburst.io/careers
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Apr 2022
At Imply, we are on a mission to help developers become the new heroes of analytics. Our unique database, built from Apache Druid, enables them to develop the next generation of analytics applications. With Imply, developers can build without constraints as our database lets them create interactive data experiences on streaming and batch data with limitless scale and at the best economics. Backed by leading investors including a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners, Imply is on a fast growth trajectory - disrupting the $100B database market - with customers including Twitter, Salesforce, Atlassian, Reddit, and Intercontinental Exchange. To learn more, please visit: https://imply.io/. --- Attention: Imply Applicants Due to reports of phishing, we’re requesting that all Imply applicants apply through our official Careers page at imply.io/careers. All official communication from Imply will come from email addresses ending with @imply.io.
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Dec 2021
Personetics, the Cognitive Banking Platform, is a pioneer in transforming how banks build and monetize customer relationships. Its AI-powered platform enables banks to respond dynamically to customers’ evolving financial needs by providing relevant and timely insights that encourage customers to make smarter financial decisions to reach their financial goals. This needs-based approach to product sales enhances customer engagement, resulting in increased loyalty. Serving leading financial institutions across 35 global markets, Personetics supports 150 million active monthly users. For more information, visit https://personetics.com
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Dec 2021
project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. We optimize the movement of products globally, delivering better resiliency, sustainability, and value for our customers. As the supply chain connective tissue, we operate the most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that tracks more than 1 billion shipments annually for the world’s leading brands. Now the undisputed leader in the market, project44 has achieved the following recognition: 1️⃣ Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2️⃣ Top ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ customer ratings on G2 3️⃣ Ranked #1 on FreightWaves’ FreightTech 25 for 2022 4️⃣ Named a Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights’ Voice of the Customer 5️⃣ Achieved Tech Unicorn Status in June 2021 6️⃣ Raised $420M in Series F Funding led by Goldman Sachs, Thoma Bravo, & TPG project44 is the world’s most robust multimodal network, operating in over 170 countries and more than 20 languages. Our approach to global and multimodal connectivity enables supply chain and logistic professionals to track inventory throughout their entire journey, including: 🚚 Truckload 🚚 LTL 🚚 Volume LTL 🌊 Ocean 🚂 Rail ✈️ Air 📦 Final Mile Headquartered in Chicago, project44 is comprised of a diverse, fast-growing, and global workforce with offices in Amsterdam, Austin, San Francisco, France, Poland, Germany, Brazil, Mexico City, India, and Colombia. Ready to transform your supply chain? Click on the LEARN MORE button ☝ above ☝ Or, if you’re eager to be part of a winning team that works together to solve the world’s most complex supply chain challenges, click Jobs to view our open roles.
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Dec 2021
We believe in a world where all the friction that gets in the way of hiring is replaced by conversations — freeing people up to spend time with people, not software. Our conversational recruiting software is built to automate the tasks hiring teams dont have time for — like screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding — to save hours of time and take candidates from hello to hired faster than ever. Weve helped thousands of employers build world class hiring experiences, like Unilever, Medtronic, Nestle, General Motors, FedEx, and Lowes. And we’ve been honored to win several awards, including HR Executive Top Product, Brandon Hall Group’s Gold Award for Best Advance in AI for Business Impact, and one of Forbes’ Top 500 Startups to Work For. Please note: Paradox will never ask you for your credit card or bank account information in connection with our recruitment process. If anyone contacts you requesting such information, please email us at info@paradox.ai or go to https://www.paradox.ai/legal/fraud for more information.
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Oct 2021
The only official Pendo LinkedIn account. Pendo’s mission is to elevate the world’s experience with software. Pendo’s product experience platform allows companies to make product intelligence actionable with speed and scale, giving rise to a new generation of companies that put product at the center of everything. Pendo customers include the world’s leading companies, including Verizon, Morgan Stanley, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk. Through Mind the Product and customer communities, sponsored events and podcast, Pendo aims to support the success of product and digital leaders everywhere. Pendo is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina and has offices around the world.
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Jun 2021
Founded in 2010, ironSource built the leading business platform for the app economy. Our mission is to help developers turn their apps into scalable, successful businesses. In 2022, we merged with Unity to build the worlds only end-to-end solution for building, launching, and growing mobile apps and games. Follow the rest of our journey at: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/unity-solutions-grow.
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Jun 2021
Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by an AI security graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.
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Jun 2021
We’re building the operating system for the trades, a critical industry that’s been underserved by technology for far too long. Founded by the sons of hard working tradespeople and backed by top investors, our platform delivers a seamlessly integrated experience that enables thousands of business owners to accelerate growth, drive operational efficiencies and deliver a superior customer experience. We currently serve over ten trades industries, and we’re just getting started. Joining our team means that you’ll have the opportunity to make an outsized impact on the trades ecosystem and world at large. Are you built for the challenge?
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Feb 2021
Flexera delivers SaaS-based IT management solutions that enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and multiply the value of their technology investments. We help organizations inform their IT with definitive visibility into complex hybrid IT ecosystems, providing unparalleled IT insights that allow them to seize technology opportunities. And we help them transform their IT with tools that deliver actionable intelligence across an ever-increasing range of dimensions to effectively manage, govern and optimize their hybrid IT estate. More than 50,000 customers subscribe to our technology value optimization solutions, delivered by 1,300+ passionate team members worldwide. To learn more, visit flexera.com
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Feb 2016
Making IT look easy.
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Dec 2014
Dynatrace keeps today’s AI-driven world working by advancing observability for today’s digital business. The world relies on software, but what isn’t seen is just how much complexity goes on behind the scenes to make sure everything stays up and running. Most businesses today have huge digital ecosystems made up of software, data flows, applications, and hybrid-cloud environments. As these ecosystems grow in complexity, so do the points of failure. Outages and glitches resulting in grounded flights or failed financial transactions prove how critical it is that software works as expected, making AI-powered observability an essential capability to ensure digital businesses run smoothly and recover quickly — keeping the world working. Dynatrace provides businesses with a holistic view of their entire digital ecosystem, removing the burden of operational monitoring and alert management. By automating these tasks, teams are empowered to transform complexity into their greatest asset and to drive their business forward by focusing on high-impact initiatives, driving topline acceleration, fueling innovation, and delivering experiences customers love.
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2025
Alden Bridge Partners
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Jul 2025
2022
Investor
Oct 2022
Alation is the leading agentic data intelligence platform. We empower people and AI agents with trusted data and knowledge required to deliver business outcomes. Global enterprises such as Cisco, DocuSign, and Nasdaq, and 40% of the Fortune 100, rely on Alation to govern and scale their AI initiatives. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alation has been recognized five times by Inc. Magazine as one of the Best Workplaces. To learn more, visit www.alation.com.
Investor
Jun 2022
AppOmni pioneered the SSPM category in 2018 and now leads the next frontier: securing AI in SaaS. Our SaaS and AI security platform gives security teams unified visibility into posture, access, third-party connections, and AI-related activity — applying the same SSPM principles to AI security. With continuous monitoring, real-time threat detection, and autonomous correlation of security signals, AppOmni helps enterprises identify, respond to, and block threats across their entire SaaS environment. Recognized as a Frost Radar™ 2025 Leader and Great Place To Work®, AppOmni continues to set the standard for innovation and customer value in SaaS security. The largest and fastest-growing global enterprises across industries trust AppOmni to secure their SaaS applications.
Investor
May 2022
Starburst was founded by the inventors of OS Trino so that data-driven companies could have a full-featured open data lakehouse platform powered by the #1 SQL analytics engine. Our end-to-end analytics platform includes the capabilities needed to discover, organize, consume, and share data with industry-leading price-performance for cloud and on-premises workloads. We believe the lakehouse should be the center of gravity, but support accessing data outside the lake when needed. With Starburst, teams can access more complete data, run scalable analytics, lower the cost of infrastructure, use tools best suited to their needs, and avoid vendor lock-in. Trusted by companies like Apache Corporation, Comcast, Doordash, DBS Bank, and VMware, Starburst helps you make better decisions faster on all data. Join us! -- Our company was founded in an unusual way; with customers and revenue from the beginning! Our growth is already ahead of some of the most successful software start-ups, and we don’t plan on slowing down. We believe our opportunity is huge. Every large company in the world suffers from a data silo problem. Traditional data warehouse products approach the problem with old solutions that breed inefficiency and ultimately can’t help business analysts run fast analytics on all their data. This prevents the business from making better decisions to improve their company’s performance. Starburst provides a modern solution that addresses these data silo & speed of access problems. Starburst helps enterprises harness the value of Trino, the fastest distributed query engine available today, by adding the tools and 24x7 support that meet the needs for big data access at scale. Ultimately, Starburst helps organizations run analytics anywhere to make better business decisions. We’re building a team of all-stars: engineers, customer success, sales, and marketing pros who are at the top of their game. If this sounds like you, check out our open roles: starburst.io/careers
Investor
Apr 2022
At Imply, we are on a mission to help developers become the new heroes of analytics. Our unique database, built from Apache Druid, enables them to develop the next generation of analytics applications. With Imply, developers can build without constraints as our database lets them create interactive data experiences on streaming and batch data with limitless scale and at the best economics. Backed by leading investors including a16z and Bessemer Venture Partners, Imply is on a fast growth trajectory - disrupting the $100B database market - with customers including Twitter, Salesforce, Atlassian, Reddit, and Intercontinental Exchange. To learn more, please visit: https://imply.io/. --- Attention: Imply Applicants Due to reports of phishing, we’re requesting that all Imply applicants apply through our official Careers page at imply.io/careers. All official communication from Imply will come from email addresses ending with @imply.io.
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