Company Info for xilis.net | IcebreakerMembers
Jiani Chen is on the Growth / BD team at the Solana Foundation, working on initiatives that support the expansion of the Solana ecosystem.
Previously, she was a Partner at Protagonist, a $100M early stage fund focused on building and investing in future-defining web2 and web3 companies and protocols.
Earlier in her career, she was an investor at Felicis Ventures where she sourced the team's investment in Sourcegraph (DevOps, $2B+) and helped to close investments in Xilis (Cancer Diagnostics), and Opsera (DevOps). She also helped to manage Felicis's investments in several well-known startup unicorns including Canva ($40B+), Cultureamp ($1B+), Hyperscience and Dialpad ($1B+)
Other companies Jiani worked on while at Felicis include Assembled, Bluecore ($1B+), Datagrail, Dovetail, Hippo (NASDAQ: HIPO), Alloy.co ($1B+), Ontic, Okera, Overture Life, Puzzle.io, Trialspark ($1B+), TopFunnel, Pendulum Therapeutics, and ProteinQure.
Jiani was previously on the investment team at ICONIQ Capital and Goldman Sachs.
Jiani is an accomplished pianist and passed the highest-level certification (Level 10) in China. Her favorite piece in her repertoire is Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu in C# Minor (Op. 66).
https://youtu.be/4i3FfV8taQM?si=IKmx6QU92WGMQtzr
She grew up in Shanghai, China and speaks fluent Mandarin, Spanish, and French. Her favorite sports are alpine skiing, hiking and boxing. 
