Ted Chan

Ted Chan is a Boston-based entrepreneur, advisor, and angel investor who is currently a Principal in Cartesian’s Strategy & Analytics practice. Cartesian describes him as bringing more than 20 years of experience across strategy consulting, technology, and executive leadership, with deep expertise in telecommunications, media, and digital platforms. His current work spans wireless and fiber networks, international markets, carrier value-added services, media ecosystems, technical integrations, AI, APIs, and cloud architecture.

Chan began his career at Collaborative Consulting, now part of DXC Technology, where Cartesian says he worked on large-scale transformation, analytics, and data warehouse initiatives in finance and insurance. He later spent more than a decade in management consulting, including an earlier stint at Cartesian, advising executives in telecom, media, and technology. In 2026, he publicly said he returned to Cartesian in January because strategy consulting in technology, media, and telecom was where he had “had the most fun at work.”

As an operator, Chan founded or led multiple venture-backed startups. He co-founded Upward Mobility, an education app company with more than 150 mobile test-prep apps, and founded PracticeQuiz.com, where he is listed as Founder and Executive Chairman. He also founded CareDash, a healthcare provider directory and review platform that launched in 2016, raised $500,000 in seed capital, and later secured nearly $2 million in debt/credit financing from Link Ventures in 2017. CoffeeRoast.com lists him as founder and managing editor, focused on specialty coffee reviews and marketplace transparency.

Chan holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Public profiles also note that he has taught Marketing Analytics and Quantitative Decision Making at Boston University and previously served as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer of the Better Business Bureau.

• Invests at seed stage as an angel/individual investor, according to AngelMatch.
• Public portfolio data points to a hands-on operator-investor profile rather than a traditional fund manager: mobile education, healthcare information, telecom/media technology, email/messaging, digital media, marketplaces, fraud prevention, analytics, and data infrastructure.
• Strong fit appears to be companies where business model quality and execution discipline matter. In a Swarthmore profile, Chan said: “The business has to work or it doesn’t scale.”
• His public writing and company-building history emphasize transparency, inclusion, and trust in marketplaces. CareDash’s stated mission was to give patients transparent information to choose healthcare providers, and CoffeeRoast.com says he is focused on review sites, fake-review detection, and multi-sided network businesses.
• Likely value-add is strongest where founders need help with strategy, analytics, product-market definition, data quality, marketplace trust, telecom/media strategy, or capital-efficient growth.