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Chip Hazard

General Partner & Co-Founder
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Investor Boston
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Background
  • Co-founded Flybridge in 2002 after serving as GP at Greylock Partners (since 1994)
  • Longest-serving non-founder board member at MongoDB (since October 2009)
  • Co-founded XFactor Ventures (pre-seed/seed fund for female founders)
  • BA Economics and Political Science from Stanford; MBA from Harvard (Baker Scholar and Ford Scholar)
Companies
Flybridge
Boston · Pre-seed, Seed
VC
Investment Focus
  • AI Infrastructure and developer platforms for AI builders
  • Agentic business applications
  • Model infrastructure, vector databases, fine-tuning platforms
  • Developer workflows, AI security, and observability
  • "Third Wave of AI Investing" thesis — AI as sole focus for the fund
Notable Investments
  • MongoDB (board member since 2009, now $1.6B+ ARR)
  • Firebase (acquired by Google), Stackdriver (acquired by Google)
  • AI infrastructure portfolio: Portkey (AI gateway/observability), Arcee (model fine-tuning), Freeplay (LLM testing), Metaplane (data observability)
  • Also: Appwrite, Nasuni, Redox, Digital Lumens
AI Agent Relevance
  • Explicit focus on "AI Infrastructure & Developer Platforms" — one of three investment pillars
  • Fund messaging explicitly names "Agentic Business Applications" as another pillar
  • MongoDB board experience gives deep pattern recognition for developer-adopted infrastructure that becomes a platform standard
  • Portfolio already includes Portkey (AI gateway/observability), Arcee (model fine-tuning), Freeplay (LLM testing) — all in the agent infrastructure stack
  • $100M fund means meaningful seed checks without ownership pressure of larger funds
  • East Coast presence is a differentiator — fewer AI-focused seed funds in Boston
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