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    Daniil Chen

    Daniil Chen

    Worked at VU Venture Partners and True Capital Management. Experience with deal sourcing, due diligence, and presenting opportunities to investment committee.

    Management San Francisco Northeastern Universi...
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    Experience
    Type One Ventures
    Type One Ventures
    Employee
    VU Venture Partners
    VU Venture Partners
    Venture Investor 2019 - Present (about 7 years)
    *Sourcing investment opportunities using a structured approach to increasing deal flow velocity in both quantity and quality by doing weekly agile sprints using multiple deal... more flow channels
    *Developing investment theses around various industry verticals, reviewing pitch decks, scheduling meetings with startups
    and investors, and presenting top investment opportunities at weekly Partners Meeting and Investment Committees
    *Conducting quantitative and qualitative deep due diligence
    True Capital Management
    True Capital Management
    Accounting Intern + Volunteer Venture Analyst 2018 - Present (about 8 years)
    *Assisted Lead Venture Analyst on several venture investment opportunities by conducting research and diligence
    *Performed comprehensive analysis on Freeletics opportunity... more and prepared Investment Committee Memorandum including exhaustive competitive analysis. Presented to investment committee in conjunction with manager, which led to successful investment from True Capital Ventures fund.
    Syngenta
    Syngenta
    Management Reporting Analyst 2017 (3 months)
    *Supported the sales budget process by updating schedule and maintained a list of the budget committee's key participants
    *Updated and maintained sales budget Excel model... more using an Excel Power Query add-in
    *Consolidated SAP based sales data of the CIS countries and prepared ad-hoc reports
    *Participated in preparing key presentations for finance management by providing sales reports
    *Analyzed sales representatives' effectiveness in Russia and Ukraine using Sales Force
    Willis Towers Watson
    Willis Towers Watson
    Pension Administration Analyst 2016 (5 months)
    *Ensured pension plan participants were set up for pension payment in a timely manner
    *Communicated with participants and surviving spouses to resolve issues with payment,... more overpayment, and benefit set ups
    *Utilized software such as Pension Path and Benefit Connect as well as Excel for calculation of benefits
    *Drafted pre-applications for pensions and income verification for plan participants
    UniRing (Startup Project)
    UniRing (Startup Project)
    Founder, Co-Founder 2015 - 2016 (4 months)
    * Designed an initial model for a high-tech ring product, featuring biometric data, which allows users to emotionally connect when thousands of miles apart * Researched market... more and communicated with potential customers in order to improve the product * Raised funds on crowdfunding websites, such as indiegogo.com for future project investment * Collaborated with venture accelerator "NU IDEA" for getting in-kind resources and educational experience of developing a business from core concept
    Founder
    UniRing (Startup Project)
    Employee
    Willis Towers Watson, Syngenta, True Capital Management, VU Venture Partners, Type One Ventures
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    About
    Achievements

    Reached out to more than 100 founders over 2 months, spoke with 50 founders and presented 2 companies to General Partners.

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    Skills
    Accounting Alternative Investments Compensation and Benefits Bloomberg Competitive Analysis Due Diligence English language Management Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft Word Professional Services Russian language Sales SAP Services Software Sourcing
    Locations
    San Francisco Los Angeles New York City
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