Carman Chan started her entrepreneurship endeavor when she was in University. In order to pursue her passion for internet, she gave up a sponsored PhD offer from Imperial College and become a serial internet entrepreneur. Carman’s first company, English Street was acquired by a Hong Kong listed newspaper group, HKET(0423.HK). Her second company were merged with Hiiir in Taiwan and were acquired by FarEasTone (4904.TW). On top, she is a best-selling book author for several accelerated learning books. Being a tech columnist in IT magazines for eight years, her focus was on internet business model.
After several successful exits, Carman has started her Angel fund, namely, Click Ventures. The focus is on technology startup from seed to series A stages. Click Ventures provides both funding and mentorship to share the pain and gain through her twenty years of technology entrepreneurship experience. The current portfolio includes more than 40 investments such as Spotify.com, Docusign, Palantir.com, Memebox.com, Youappi.com…etc. She has been invited as a speaker or member of panel in prestigious events globally across more than 10 countries, such as the Web Summit, Slush, AVCJ Private Equity and Venture Forum, Silicon Dragon, etc.