Seamon Chan is Founding Partner at Palm Drive Capital, a global venture capital firm invested in over 150 technology startups across five continents including WeLab, Jet.com, Carta, Clover Health, Rippling, Rappi, Flutterwave, and Boom Supersonic. Previously, he was at Insight Partners, a $100 billion venture capital and private equity firm. 

Seamon brings entrepreneurship and operating experience through startup roles in the mobile, gaming, advertising, and social networking spaces in the US, Asia, and Europe. Earlier in his career, he gained corporate and research experience at Hitachi Data Systems, Citigroup, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, and Stanford Center for Integrated Systems.Seamon graduated from Stanford University and the Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School, and is completing the Tsinghua University People’s Bank of China School of Finance Belt Road Initiative EMBA Program.

Seamon is Chair of Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle (Asia), a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Asia Society Southern California Advisory Board, China Institute-Serica U.S.-China Next-Gen Leaders Circle, and Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was honored as a Committee of 100 Next Generation Leader in 2018 and currently serves on the C100 NGL Advisory Council.

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Seamon co-founded MillionLives.org, a non-profit initiative to donate medical supplies to underserved communities around the world. He is an advisory board member at the Mekong Future Initiative, a Singapore-based non-profit organization focusing on youth education and entrepreneurship in the Mekong region. Through Palm Drive, Seamon has pledged a seven-figure amount to Beyond the Billion (The Billion Dollar Fund for Women), a global consortium of venture funds committed to tackling the gender investment gap by increasing their investments in women-founded companies.