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Alic Chen

General Partner, Blue Bear Ventures

About

Alic co-founded UC Berkeley's CITRIS Foundry, one of the early university deep-tech accelerators, before spinning that experience into Blue Bear Ventures, giving him unusually deep exposure to dozens of frontier-science founding teams at the university lab stage. He maintains an active presence in the UC Berkeley entrepreneurship ecosystem while running a specialist deep-tech fund, allowing him to continuously source and nurture lab-to-market projects at the moment of spinout in a way that's particularly distinctive to his career path. Alic co-founded UC Berkeley's CITRIS Foundry, one of the early university deep-tech accelerators, before spinning that experience into Blue Bear Ventures, giving him unusually deep exposure to dozens of frontier-science founding teams at the university lab stage. He maintains an active presence in the UC Berkeley entrepreneurship ecosystem while running a specialist deep-tech fund, allowing him to continuously source and nurture lab-to-market projects at the moment of spinout in a way that's particularly distinctive to his career path.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Sectors
BioTech
Deeptech
Hardware
Climate
Health
Materials

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $400K
Can lead rounds
No
Geographies
USA