Carman Chan

Founder & Managing Partner at Click Ventures

Panellist

After declining a PhD offer from Imperial College London, Carman Chan embarked on anentrepreneurial journey in the technology industry. With over 20 years of experience as a serialentrepreneur, venture capitalist, tech columnist and international speaker across 20 countries,Carman has worn many hats. In 2022, she transitioned her focus to managing her own singlefamily office and investing in funds rather than direct deals.

Carman is an author of accelerated learning books and was formerly a tech columnist forcomputer magazines and newspapers. Her first startup EnglishStreet became a case study atHarvard Business Review and was later acquired by Hong Kong Economic Times (0423.HK).Her second venture Click Limited had investors including the first CFO of Tencent and thefounder of Cherubic Ventures, and eventually merged with Hiiir and was acquired byFastEastone (4904.TW).

She has been interviewed by major publications like Harper's Bazaar, Wall Street Journal andSouth China Morning Post.

Carman also made the cover of Nikkei Asian Review among thetop 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech.Founded in 2015, Carman's fund Click Ventures was ranked in the top 5 best performing seedfunds globally. Its subsequent fund placed first in the 'Fund to Watch' category by Preqin forperformance. From 2019-2021, Click Ventures consistently ranked among the top performingventure capital funds worldwide.

In 2022, Click Ventures launched an Impact Initiative and was selected by the World EconomicForum as one of 17 innovative funds. Later that year, Carman transformed Click Ventures intoher own single-family office managing existing investments with a new focus on allocatingcapital to funds instead of direct deals.