Anna Chen

Investor

Palo Alto

Anna Chen

Anna Chen

Investor

Palo Alto

Anna joined Madrona in 2024. As part of the Madrona investment team, she focuses on sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities across Madrona’s investment themes, with a concentration on acceleration stage companies, and supports the growth and strategy of current portfolio companies. Anna is particularly interested in intelligent applications, enterprise software, as well as consumer-facing technologies. Anna is based out of Madrona’s Palo Alto office.

Journey to Madrona

Prior to joining Madrona, Anna was an associate in the technology group at General Atlantic, a growth equity firm in NYC. At GA, Anna focused on sourcing and evaluating new growth investments, as well as supporting portfolio companies through value creation and M&A. Prior to GA, Anna was an investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan, focusing on technology M&A.

Lessons learned

Never hide your passion and conviction. In and out of the office, there will always be difficult decisions to be made. It is critical to not only lean on logic but to always double-check with intuition.

When she’s not in the office…

Anna can be typically found reading, practicing Pilates, or musing about ways to design and decorate her home. She also enjoys traveling and trying new restaurants.

Noteworthy

Anna graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business with a degree in business administration. Anna is originally from Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Anna on Madrona

"From the very start, I was inspired by how Madrona develops long-term relationships with entrepreneurs. They bet on founders early and work with them throughout every step of the journey to build world-class companies and businesses."