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Women in tech: Carman Chan’s Click Ventures is one of the most consistent VC funds globally

Serial entrepreneur turning angel investor turned VC, Carman Chan is one of the top women in tech in Asia

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Click Ventures Founder and Managing Partner Carman Chan

The venture capital market has more than doubled in size over the past five years says a research by Prequin. And Asia is not too far from all the VC action. Hong Kong’s Click Ventures is named by Preqin as the ‘Most Consistently Top performing VC fund globally’.  And empowering women in tech and finance, founder of Click Ventures Carman Chan is the only female fund founder from the five funds selected globally.

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Top-performing VC fund managers by Preqin

A veteran in the technology industry, Carman Chan started out as a tech columnist and is now a globally recognized venture capitalist. She founded Click Ventures, a global early-stage venture capital firm in 2015, after a successful series of entrepreneurial ventures and three exits. Click Ventures provides seed or series A funding to startups in the internet or mobile sectors. Her investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox, MeetUp, and Youappi.

She ditched a PhD offer from the UK to pursue her entrepreneurship endeavor while she was in University. One of the top women in tech in Asia, Carman’s first company, English Street was acquired by a Hong Kong-listed newspaper group, HKET. Her second company were merged with Hiiir in Taiwan and were acquired by FarEasTone (4904.TW). She is a best selling author and columnist and seeks to impart and share her 20 of technology entrepreneurship experience via Click Ventures.
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