About
Alice Chen is the Head of North America at BearPlex. She spent her career on the buy side of the table, in venture and private equity rooms where the question was always the same: is this business actually worth what someone is about to pay for it?
Most founder-led businesses are worth less than they look. Not because the product is weak, but because nothing works without the founder in the room. Her work at BearPlex turns what lives in a founder's head into an operating layer the business can actually run on.
A business that only works with the founder in the room is not an asset. It is a liability dressed up as leadership.
A former M&A and securities attorney, she has founded, scaled, and exited businesses of her own, and has worked with Y Combinator-backed companies and EO and YPO member businesses. She is building Continuity+, AI operators that carry a founder's logic into the day-to-day, so the business runs without depending on any one person.
Beyond BearPlex, Alice is a partner at Pender Hastings Capital, investing in venture and private equity across the U.S. and Canada, and sits on the board of EO Silicon Valley, the Silicon Valley chapter of Entrepreneurs' Organization. Her work has been featured in Forbes, SUCCESS, and Maxim.
Expertise
Ventures
- BearPlex · Head of North America
- Runs BearPlex in North America. Turns founder knowledge into an operating layer the business can run on.
- Continuity+
- AI operators that carry a founder's logic into the day-to-day, so the business runs without depending on any one person.
- Pender Hastings Capital · Partner
- Venture and private equity across the U.S. and Canada.
- EO Silicon Valley · Board
- Entrepreneurs' Organization, Silicon Valley chapter.