Alfred Chuang

Alfred S. Chuang is an American business technology executive and venture capitalist. He is the former CEO of BEA Systems. In 2020, he founded Race Capital, a venture fund.

Early life and education A native of Hong Kong, Chuang graduated from Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, a Roman Catholic all-boys secondary school.

Chuang received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco and a master's degree in computer science with a specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis. Chuang authored a graduate thesis, "Table-Tabular Data Objects and their Use in Table Editing", concerning relational database development.

Since 2008, Chuang has been the founder and CEO of a mobile app server startup called Magnet Systems, Inc. In August 2012, Magnet received an extra $47 million in Series B funding from HTC and Andreessen Horowitz.

In 2020 he co-founded Race Capital, a venture fund, and became its general partner.