Ellen Chisa brings an unusually technical perspective to venture investing, having co-founded Dark where she created an entirely new backend programming language with its own editor and infrastructure, giving her deep empathy for developers and practical insight into how new programming tools actually get adopted. As an "inception" investor at Boldstart, she focuses on meeting potential founders even before they decide to start companies and emphasizes whether they can realistically displace the largest incumbent over 5-10 years while running tightly scoped learning experiments rather than just writing code. Ellen Chisa brings an unusually technical perspective to venture investing, having co-founded Dark where she created an entirely new backend programming language with its own editor and infrastructure, giving her deep empathy for developers and practical insight into how new programming tools actually get adopted. As an "inception" investor at Boldstart, she focuses on meeting potential founders even before they decide to start companies and emphasizes whether they can realistically displace the largest incumbent over 5-10 years while running tightly scoped learning experiments rather than just writing code.