Phil Chen

Phil heads up the EXODUS project at HTC, the world’s first cryptophone device built for the decentralized web, or Web 3.0. Phil is also General Partner at Proof of Capital, a public blockchain venture fund. Phil joined HTC in 2007 as a product manager, building some of the first ever android phones and launching the Facebook phone, the only phone co-branded with a social media internet company that also became the QQ/Tencent and Weibo phone in China. Phil also founded the Vive VR project at HTC and founded Presence Capital, a venture fund specializing in VR/AR startups. In 2015, Phil also joined Horizons Ventures (Li Ka-shing’s fund) as an Advisor where he served as board director/observer for fifteen companies globally including Improbable, Sentient, Soul Machines, Scopely, Baobab VR, 88 Rising, Amper, Kneron, Smash gg and Blue Vision Labs.