Managing Partner
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Alic Chen invests or supports investments through Transitions First's published strategy: Bridge deep-tech founders and corporations to scale sustainable industrial production, with focus on net-zero supply chains, biomanufacturing and circular-economy technologies.
Breakthrough enabling technologies with a clear path to cost parity, non-disruptive industrial implementation, measurable impact and coachable technical founders.
The strategy targets industrial and food transitions; technologies without a sustainable production impact or credible commercialization path are less aligned.
Show the enabling breakthrough, cost-parity path, integration with existing industry, impact potential, corporate validation and the commercialization milestone ahead.
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Alic Chen is listed by Transitions First as Managing Partner. Multidisciplinary engineer who has incubated and launched advanced-materials, manufacturing and health startups that raised more than $500M.