Chip Hazard

General Partner and Co-Founder, Flybridge; Co-Founder and Investment Partner, XFactor Ventures; Board Member and early investor at MongoDB

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

About

I am a hands-on early stage venture capital investor with a particular focus on working with passionate entrepreneurial teams developing companies around deep IP that addresses significant “pain points” for customers in emerging high growth fields. Specialties: Early-stage company creation across information technology markets

Experience

  • General Partner and Co-Founder at Flybridge Capital Partners
    May 2002 - Present · 24 yrs 2 mos

    Seed-stage venture capital firm based in Boston and New York City investing in Investing in ambitious founders building our AI-powered future. With over $1 billion under management across seve seed funds and nine network funds, portfolio companies include BetterCloud, BitSight, Chief, Codecademy (acq: SKILL), FalconX, Firebase (acq: GOOG), MadeiraMadeira, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), OpenFX, Splice, and ZestAI.

  • Co-founder and Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures
    Jul 2017 - Present · 9 yrs

    XFactor Ventures is looking for tenacious female founders and mixed-gender founding teams attacking billion-dollar market opportunities. With three funds and a portfolio of over 85 companies, we are one of the most active venture investors in companies founded by women. We invest $125k into pre-seed or seed stage rounds and provide advice, mentorship, and connections to help our companies succeed. The XFactor investing partners are current successful operators, collectively raising over $800M in capital, hiring thousands of employees, but they are still in the trenches every day. Let's connect if you're a female founder working on a big idea!

  • Board Member at MongoDB
    Oct 2009 - Present · 16 yrs 9 mos

    First invested and joined the board when the company was less than 10 people and about to ship version 1.0. Remain on the board following October 2017 IPO.

  • Seed Investor at Arcade.dev
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Seed Investor at Mako
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos