Chris Chai

Chris is a Venture Partner based in our San Francisco office, working with portfolio companies on their engagement with Wall Street and their overall financing strategy and execution. Chris spent over 20 years in executive management at biotech companies and investment banking. He has taken companies public, from both the company and the banking side, and has sold two companies in billion-dollar M&A transactions. Chris raised $2.3BN in over 20 financing transactions which included venture rounds, crossovers, IPOs, follow-ons, converts and equity lines of credit. He was instrumental in gaining equity research coverage from 30 sell-side analysts, as well as developing a broad network of private and public institutional life sciences investors. Chris has built and evolved his teams from private to public company finance organizations. In addition, he was involved with scaling one company to over 700 employees including the buildout of a US specialty salesforce.