Partner
Roger Chen
Roger has been an active investor and technology leader for over 10 years. He is currently a Partner with Silverton Partners, a leading venture capital firm that invests in early stage software and consumer businesses with high growth potential. Roger is a board director and/or investor in AllVoices, Apprentice, Billie Fama, GroceryTV, Kickfin, Literati, Repairify, SYNQ3, Clerk, Restream, RouteFusion, Rx Redefined, Valid8 Financial, and Wheel.
Prior to joining Silverton in 2017, Roger was a Principal at Genacast Ventures in New York, a boutique seed-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Comcast Ventures focused on B2B software investing. While at Genacast, he was involved with investments in BigID, DrayNow, and Uptycs.
Before his investing career, Roger worked as an engineer turned PM at Google in Mountain View where he led various initiatives within Google Maps and Chrome. Roger studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Michigan and holds an MBA from The Wharton School.
INVESTMENTS
Company
Round
Status
Founders
Description
Location
Series A
- Active
- Fintech
Brian Hassan (Co-CEO)
Justin Roberts (Co-CEO)
By automating tip distributions, you’ll eliminate bank runs, cut your risk of theft, and reduce labor costs. Bonus: you’ll hire more workers by giving employees instant access to their earnings. Implementation is fast and free.
Seed
- Active
- Enterprise
Angelo Stracquatanio (CEO)
Gary Pignata (CSO)
Apprentice FS is an enterprise SaaS business focused on human workforce empowerment in laboratory or complex manufacturing environments.
Jersey City, NJ
Seed
- Active
- Healthcare
Michelle Davey (CEO)
Wheel is an on-demand marketplace for healthcare professionals focused on the growing telehealth industry.
Austin, TX
Series B
- Active
- Enterprise
Ben Mones (CEO)
Fama is a leader in social media screening automation & AI.
Los Angeles, CA
Series A
- Active
- Enterprise
Claire Schmidt (CEO)
AllVoices is an anonymous reporting tool that enables anyone to report harassment, bias, & culture issues directly to company leadership.
Santa Monica, CA
Seed
- Active
- Healthcare
Brandon Boots (CEO)
Erik Smith (CTO)
Rx Redefined is a platform that allows physicians to directly manage the distribution of medical supplies to their patients.
Oakland, CA
Seed
- Active
- Enterprise
- Fintech
Colton Seal (CEO)
Richard Scappaticci (CTO)
Routefusion offers a cross-border payments API that allows customers to send and receive payments between banks around the world with a single integration.
Austin, TX
Seed
- Active
- Enterprise
Alexander Khuda (CEO)
Andrew Surzhynskyi (CTO)
Restream enables content producers to livestream to 38 platforms and simultaneously interact with viewers via a single multi-platform chat application.
Austin, TX
Seed
- Active
- Consumer
Jessica Ewing (CEO)
Kelly Carroll (Creative Director)
Literati is a digital platform for book clubs and sells books to consumers on a subscription basis.
Austin, TX
Series A
- Active
- Enterprise
Marlow Nickell (CEO)
Don Oelke (COO)
Clerk is a digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising platform and merchandising analytics solution for the grocery retail market.
Austin, TX
Series A
- Acquired/IPO
- Enterprise
Eric Garves (CEO)
Daimen Simmons
Top-Rated Business Software for Auto Reconditioning Business Owners.
Austin, TX
Seed
- Acquired/IPO
- Enterprise
Clinton Coleman (CEO)
Jeff Loukas (CPO)
Novo Labs delivers an end-to-end AI-based voice ordering service to large chain restaurants.
