Stanley Chan

Venture Capital | Kalea Ventures (KV)

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Feb 2019
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok. Creation is the core of ByteDances purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. Thats how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users. We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.
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Feb 2014
BBD is a fast growing Fintech company in China, a leading provider of big data solutions, and the founding member of COSR, the industrial standard of commercial big data. BBD is headquartered in Chengdu, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guiyang, as well as a branch in Singapore to cover the rest of Asia. The incorporation of BBD London, a UK registered company would set our footsteps into the heartland of the global financial center, enabling us to combine our knowledge in China with the rest of the world, and articulate state-of-the-art applications for financial usage at all levels on a global scale. Our team in China consists of more than 300 high-caliber experts from the US, Europe and China. We have a wellestablished client base in China, from banks, securities firms to insurance companies and other professional services companies. Our strategic partners include Caixin, a leading Chinese financial news company, Santai Holding, a Shenzhen Stock Exchange listed technology firm, and Forbes China etc. We have also developed in-depth relationships with a number of leading universities and research labs inside and outside of China. We are committed to providing reliable business data services to finance, business and related agencies, so as to improve their efficiency of decision-making. We will make sure that you will get effective information from heterogeneous data of multiple sources, easy and convenient.
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2024
Mentor | Angel Investor
Sep 2024
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
2022
General Partner
Dec 2022
🚀 Kalea Ventures (KV) emerges as a beacon of trust and expertise in the global AI tech venture investment landscape, in particular in the robotics, gaming & deeptech space. Our founders impressive track record, including successful fundraising endeavors with international powerhouses like Alibaba Group, combined with over two decades of experience in financial institutions such as UBS, Citi, and Franklin Templeton, underscores our deep-rooted understanding and proficiency in both the startup world and the financial sector. This rich blend of knowledge and experience positions us as not just investors, but as world-class strategic partners, adept at guiding and empowering our diverse portfolio companies 🌍🤝. This diverse array of investments is a testament to our unparalleled ability to identify and nurture groundbreaking technologies across continents 🌏. Along with our strategic investments, through our sister company Kalea Advisors, we provide comprehensive advisory services encompassing strategy, funding, and growth, enhanced by cutting-edge new media services like targeted newsletters and video promotional campaigns, designed to maximize the visibility and impact of our portfolio companies. 📈📰🎥. Kalea Ventures is more than an investment fund; we are a globally trusted partner, offering not only capital but also a wealth of expertise and strategic support. Our approach ensures that our portfolio companies dont just succeed locally but thrive on a global stage, setting new benchmarks in the AI tech sector. We invite LPs to join us in this journey!
2019
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Feb 2019
ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok. Creation is the core of ByteDances purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. Thats how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users. We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.
2016
Partner
May 2016
We do global investment in technology, internet and AIGC arena, with our approach of data driven structural value investment
Co-Founder & CEO
Jan 2016
Farseer is an AI-powered analytics platform with cloud & API solutions around ESG, risk management (KYC & data driven asset price alert), investment research (post-MiFid II focus) & IR optimization, focus to empower a more efficient financial ecosystem. Our clients include security brokers, institutional investors, corporates, stock exchanges & financial bureau etc. across HK & China. Our proprietary cloud engine combines search, text analytics (Chinese NLP in particular), knowledge graphs & machine learning algorithm, to extract real time financial related alternative data from across millions of unstructured context, according to clients’ criteria & output/alerts format, with user-defined sentimental weightings, through 24/7 web & App access, to significantly reduce, digitize & automate risk management & research effort. Farseer’s business partners include Caixin & Tsinghua PBCSF etc. We are the cohort of the HK AI Lab (founded by Alibaba & Sensetime) & are among founding members of the Greater Bay Youth Entrepreneurship Association.
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