Phil Chen Email Address

Board Member

HTC United States

Phil Chen is General Partner at Race Capital, a Silicon Valley software venture fund that invests in what matters for the future of humanity. Phil is also an advisor and founder of the HTC Exodus; the world’s first open source crypto mobile phone anchoring the next internet with a distributed computing device that empowers the individual to own their private keys. He was also previously founder of the HTC Vive and also founding Managing Partner at Presence Capital, the leading XR and Computer Vision seed fund that invested in companies like the Wave, Strivr, Tripp, Escher Reality (exited to Niantic), and Blue Vision (exited to Lyft). Phil’s track record in hardware is prescient where he led the 300M acquisition of Beats Electronics in 2011 and as a product manager launched the world’s first Android phone in 2009. From 2015-2018, Phil was an advisor at Horizons Ventures, Li Ka-Shing’s venture fund, leading the deep tech portfolio where he served as a board director for over fifteen companies globally including Improbable, Soul Machines, Kneron, Scopely, Sentient, Fano Labs, Amper and 88Rising. His entrepreneurial story has been documented in best-selling books by Blake Harris’ The History of the Future and David Rowan’s Non-Bullshit Innovation.