Chi-Hua Chien

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Goodwater Capital. Empowering exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
24
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8
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5
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Growth Stage Investor & Board Member
Jan 2022
Fever is the leading global live-entertainment discovery tech platform with a clear mission: to democratize access to culture and entertainment. Fever has developed a proprietary technology that inspires its global community of over 125M people through personalized and curated experiences in their local city whilst empowering entertainment and event creators to reach new audiences and enhance their experiences. Some successful examples include the “Candlelight Concert Series” attended by over 3 million guests last year, the Los Angeles-based “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience” co-produced with Netflix, or the “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” winner of USA Todays 10 Best Readers Choice award. The company, present in over 100 major cities across the globe, is backed by leading investors such as Goldman Sachs, Alignment Growth (growth equity investor in global entertainment and consumer tech, led by former Warner Bros and Time Warner), Goodwater Capital (the largest dedicated consumer technology platform globally), Smash Capital (a late-stage venture capital firm led by former Disney and growth equity investors, backer of Epic Games), Eurazeo, Vitruvian Partners and Atresmedia among others. To pursue our objective, we are looking for bar-raisers who want to work hard, have fun, and make history with us.
Investor & Board Advisor
Jan 2020
Citizen is the No. 1 public safety app in the U.S., with a mission to make the world a safer place. In addition to serving millions of individuals, Citizen Enterprise delivers real-time situational intelligence to organizations, cities, and teams that need to make fast, informed decisions when it matters most. Citizen provides 911 alerts so people can use their phones to keep themselves, and the people and places they love, safe. Citizen has notified people to evacuate burning buildings, deterred school buses from nearby terrorist attacks, and led to the rescue of kidnapped children and missing people. Citizen’s alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content so app users never have to wonder why there are helicopters overhead or fire engines flying by. By broadcasting from the scene of an incident, communicating with one another, and reading live updates, communities are empowered by Citizen. We act fast, break news, and give people the immediate information they need to stay safe. Citizen Enterprise extends real-time awareness to organizations, offering advanced incident categorization, configurable alerts, and city-wide visibility to support public safety teams, corporate security, real estate operators, event organizers, and municipalities. The platform enables organizations to detect risks earlier, reduce noise, and respond with confidence by utilizing live, verified incident data. Our flagship paid product, Citizen Premium, currently unlocks 5 new features, including the powerful ability to listen to police and fire radios, unlock past incidents, create alert zones, view nearby registered offenders, and family plan to share your subscription with up to five people at no additional cost. Citizen is backed by 8VC, Founders Fund, Goodwater Capital, and Greycroft and has raised tens of millions in VC funding. https://vimeo.com/499700748
Investor & Board Advisor
Oct 2019
TIER-Dott is the European champion of shared micro-mobility. Created through the merger of operators TIER and Dott in March 2024, the company decided to move forward under the name of Dott and is currently in the process of integrating all vehicles into the Dott app. With the mission to change mobility for good, the team is led by CEO Henri Moissinac and President Maxim Romain. TIER-Dott facilitates sustainable travel, reduces congestion and pollution in cities, and decreases reliance on cars. With more than 250,000 shared vehicles in more than 420 cities across 21 countries in Europe and the Middle East, the 10 million users have generated over 380 million rides so far. For more information, visit www.ridedott.com TIER-Dott: Change mobility for good, together
Investor and Board Advisor
Dec 2018
Badis mission is to become the most trusted brand for shared living by delivering the slickest user experience through our curated marketplace as well as by unlocking premium shared living spaces through our own RE operator, Badi Homes. We are the Nº1 shared living marketplace in Spain with more than 4M users and 7 years of experience. We leverage our marketplace, our data and our technology in order to digitalize the booking and living experience to its fullest.
Investor & Board Advisor
Nov 2017
corporate content never felt like Monzo.
early stageBanking
Early Stage Investor & Board Member
May 2017
Dosh: The App That Pays Moving billions of dollars to millions of people. As the fastest growing app that finds cash for consumers and helps businesses acquire and retain customers, Dosh is revolutionizing the way the world does cash back. Dosh users get cash back for shopping, dining out and booking hotels at hundreds of thousands of locations. Using breakthrough technology to eliminate wasted advertising spend, Dosh puts that money back into the pockets of consumers and businesses. Doshers can then transfer the cash directly into a bank account, PayPal or Venmo or donate to a charity. Life at Dosh: Our mission to positively impact people’s lives financially by moving billions of dollars to millions of people permeates every decision we make. We believe that combining humility, transparency, adaptability, and creativity allows us to remain agile while creating impactful experiences and solutions for our users, businesses, and community. We believe that staying genuine to our mission drives genuine action to positively impact people’s lives a little Dosh at a time. Interested in joining the team? Email us at careers@dosh.cash.
Early Stage Investor & Board Advisor
Feb 2017
Photomath is a fast-growing EdTech company whose mobile app is the #1 app in the world to learn math. Powered by advanced machine learning technology, the app instantly scans, accurately solves, and intuitively explains printed and handwritten math problems to users through step-by-step explanations. With over 300 million downloads globally, Photomath is one of the most popular educational apps of all time, consistently topping the Apple App Store & Google Play Store. Today, we employ over 200 employees and have offices in Zagreb and San Mateo, California. We are a team of people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and skills, united by passion for technology and innovation. We believe that math is an increasingly crucial skill, particularly as problem-solving and quantitative analysis become prerequisites for many occupations. We are constantly expanding what Photomath can do and the types and quality of our content - we have so much more ahead of us and we need your help to get there. Join us in our mission to revolutionize learning math and help students across the globe gain math superpowers!
Early Stage Investor & Board Advisor
Feb 2017
A problem isnt truly solved until its solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone. Check out our career opportunities at goo.gle/3DLEokh
Board Member
Aug 2016
Stash is a personal finance app that makes investing easy and affordable for millions of Americans. From budgeting paychecks to stock rewards and saving for now or retirement, we help Stashers create more financial freedom. Stash’s Smart Portfolio was named the top-performing robo-advisor for 2023 by Condor Capital. Stash also partners with employers to offer “StashWorks,” a workplace benefit to improve financial wellness for employees. With StashWorks, employees can learn about money, contribute to their savings, and earn rewards for achieving their financial goals. See our disclosures: https://bit.ly/3Tff1jI
Board Member
Apr 2016
Weee! (www.sayweee.com/en) is the leading Asian e-grocer in the U.S., delivering more than 10,000 locally sourced and hard-to-find goods from around the globe directly to customers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Weee! is on a mission to enable affordable access to groceries for every home in North America while setting a new standard for freshness and value. By leveraging social e-commerce and proprietary forecasting technology, the company continues to redefine online grocery shopping. Since its inception, Weee! has received $835M+ in funding from Arena Holdings, Blackstone, DST Global,Goodwater Capital, Greystone Capital, iFly.vc, Lightspeed Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tiger Global, VMG, and XVC. Join the fun on our iOS and Android apps! Shipping nationwide 📣
Early Stage Investor & Advisor
Mar 2016
Inspire Creativity and Bring Joy
Board Member
Jan 2014
Zumper is the largest privately owned rental platform in North America with more than 178 million site visits a year. We’re proud to have been named a 2021 Best Startup Employer by Forbes and a 2021 Best Place to Work/Company with the Best Benefits by BuiltIn SF. We believe finding your new apartment is more than just a move. It’s something bigger. A step forward. A new beginning. A fresh start. Whether you’re moving across the country or across the street, you deserve to love where you land. Zumper is on a mission to change the way you rent forever, where renting a home is as easy as booking a hotel. By making this vision a reality, we’re creating the opportunity for everyone to live better from one fresh start to the next. To date, we’ve raised over $178 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group.
early stageReal Estate
Board Member
Dec 2013
charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Since 2006, we've funded more than 120,000 water projects in 29 developing countries. When complete, these projects will provide clean, safe drinking water for more than 16.8 million people. 771 million people don’t have access to clean drinking water, that's one in ten of us. Diseases from dirty water kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. The good news: there are simple solutions, from deep drilled wells to water filtration systems. With the help of 1 million+ donors and individual fundraisers, we've raised over $740M, forming a strong force against the water crisis. Join us!
Board Member
Nov 2011
Launched in 2011, Inspirato is the innovative luxury travel subscription brand that provides affluent travelers access to a managed and controlled portfolio of hand-selected vacation options, delivered through a subscription model to ensure the service and certainty that affluent customers demand. The Inspirato Collection includes branded luxury vacation homes available exclusively to subscribers and guests, accommodations at five-star hotel and resort partners, and custom travel experiences. In 2019, Inspirato improved travel by introducing Inspirato Pass, the world’s first luxury travel subscription inclusive of nightly rates, taxes, and fees. On June 30, 2021, Inspirato entered into a definitive merger agreement with Thayer Ventures Acquisition Corp. (the “Merger Agreement”) that is expected to result in Inspirato becoming a publicly listed company on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ISPO.” For more information, visit www.inspirato.com.
early stageHospitality
Board Member
Aug 2011
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2022
Growth Stage Investor & Board Member
Jan 2022
Fever is the leading global live-entertainment discovery tech platform with a clear mission: to democratize access to culture and entertainment. Fever has developed a proprietary technology that inspires its global community of over 125M people through personalized and curated experiences in their local city whilst empowering entertainment and event creators to reach new audiences and enhance their experiences. Some successful examples include the “Candlelight Concert Series” attended by over 3 million guests last year, the Los Angeles-based “Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience” co-produced with Netflix, or the “Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” winner of USA Todays 10 Best Readers Choice award. The company, present in over 100 major cities across the globe, is backed by leading investors such as Goldman Sachs, Alignment Growth (growth equity investor in global entertainment and consumer tech, led by former Warner Bros and Time Warner), Goodwater Capital (the largest dedicated consumer technology platform globally), Smash Capital (a late-stage venture capital firm led by former Disney and growth equity investors, backer of Epic Games), Eurazeo, Vitruvian Partners and Atresmedia among others. To pursue our objective, we are looking for bar-raisers who want to work hard, have fun, and make history with us.
2020
Investor & Board Advisor
Jan 2020
Citizen is the No. 1 public safety app in the U.S., with a mission to make the world a safer place. In addition to serving millions of individuals, Citizen Enterprise delivers real-time situational intelligence to organizations, cities, and teams that need to make fast, informed decisions when it matters most. Citizen provides 911 alerts so people can use their phones to keep themselves, and the people and places they love, safe. Citizen has notified people to evacuate burning buildings, deterred school buses from nearby terrorist attacks, and led to the rescue of kidnapped children and missing people. Citizen’s alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content so app users never have to wonder why there are helicopters overhead or fire engines flying by. By broadcasting from the scene of an incident, communicating with one another, and reading live updates, communities are empowered by Citizen. We act fast, break news, and give people the immediate information they need to stay safe. Citizen Enterprise extends real-time awareness to organizations, offering advanced incident categorization, configurable alerts, and city-wide visibility to support public safety teams, corporate security, real estate operators, event organizers, and municipalities. The platform enables organizations to detect risks earlier, reduce noise, and respond with confidence by utilizing live, verified incident data. Our flagship paid product, Citizen Premium, currently unlocks 5 new features, including the powerful ability to listen to police and fire radios, unlock past incidents, create alert zones, view nearby registered offenders, and family plan to share your subscription with up to five people at no additional cost. Citizen is backed by 8VC, Founders Fund, Goodwater Capital, and Greycroft and has raised tens of millions in VC funding. https://vimeo.com/499700748
2019
Investor & Board Advisor
Oct 2019
TIER-Dott is the European champion of shared micro-mobility. Created through the merger of operators TIER and Dott in March 2024, the company decided to move forward under the name of Dott and is currently in the process of integrating all vehicles into the Dott app. With the mission to change mobility for good, the team is led by CEO Henri Moissinac and President Maxim Romain. TIER-Dott facilitates sustainable travel, reduces congestion and pollution in cities, and decreases reliance on cars. With more than 250,000 shared vehicles in more than 420 cities across 21 countries in Europe and the Middle East, the 10 million users have generated over 380 million rides so far. For more information, visit www.ridedott.com TIER-Dott: Change mobility for good, together
2018
Investor and Board Advisor
Dec 2018
Badis mission is to become the most trusted brand for shared living by delivering the slickest user experience through our curated marketplace as well as by unlocking premium shared living spaces through our own RE operator, Badi Homes. We are the Nº1 shared living marketplace in Spain with more than 4M users and 7 years of experience. We leverage our marketplace, our data and our technology in order to digitalize the booking and living experience to its fullest.
2017
Investor & Board Advisor
Nov 2017
corporate content never felt like Monzo.
early stageBanking
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