Eric Chin

Investing Profile

Sweet spot: $4M Range: $2M–$10M Fund: $350M

Crosslink Capital thesis

Pandora Music streaming and automated music recommendation internet radio service IPO (P) Case Study Music streaming and automated music recommendation internet radio service Entry Date 2005 Exit Date 2011 Outcome: IPO (P) Pandora Media operates the leading Internet radio business in the United States and monetizes its service with subscriptions as well as display, audio and video advertising across a diversified set of platforms. Pandora’s advertising products give brand advertisers the ability to powerfully target listeners with a unique set of attributes including age, gender, zip code and

Sector and stage focus

  • Seed: Sales & CRM, Analytics, Data Services, Cloud Infrastructure, AI, FinTech, Marketplaces, SaaS, Enterprise
  • Series A: Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Services, Sales & CRM, AI, Marketplaces, Enterprise, SaaS, FinTech
  • general: San Francisco Bay Area

Recent investments by Eric Chin

Eric Chin has 8 named past investments in the public record. The most recent:

Company Stage Date Round size
Descartes Labs Series B Oct 2019 $20M
Kinetic Series A Nov 2020 $11M
Barndoor AI Seed May 2025 $14M
DataStax Series Unknown Jun 2022 $120M
Feedback Loop Series A Feb 2021 $7M
Molekule Series C Feb 2020 $58M
Step Series B Dec 2020 $50M
Inscribe Seed Dec 2018 $3M

Frequent co-investors

Eric Chin has co-invested with: Rob Hayes, Sam Fort, Salil Deshpande, Nasir Jones, Venky Harinarayan.

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