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Silvia Chen

Questioner · DISC type c
Co-founder & CEO at Bilrost
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Silvia Chen is the Co-founder and CEO of Bilrost, a company focused on automating commercial real estate financing with AI. A serial founder and former Head of Product at Blockchain. com, she has a track record of launching products that unlocked over $1B in liquidity and drove nine-figure revenues. She holds a BA from Boston University.

Outside of her entrepreneurial ventures, Silvia is an angel investor and a member of Founders Pledge, committing a percentage of her proceeds to social impact causes. Her personal pursuits are diverse and intense, including kitesurfing, training in jiu-jitsu, painting, meditating, and reading.

She is a member of American Mensa, underscoring her intellectual capabilities.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Co-founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Silvia shows up

Price-Sensitive
Systematic
Value Seeker

They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point. They prefer to fully evaluate every situation. It is quite likely of them to ask for pricing or other concessions.

Priorities

Topics Silvia cares about

Applied AI
Her current company, Bilrost, and previous startup, Ownlayer, are both focused on applying AI to solve real-world business problems, specifically in CRE lending and for infrastructure teams.
CRE Financing
As the CEO of Bilrost, her primary professional focus is on automating and bringing efficiency to commercial real estate processing, underwriting, and servicing for lenders.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Co-founder & CEO
Bilrost
7-2025
Founders Pledge Member
Founders Pledge
2-2023 - 4-2025
Co-founder & CEO
Ownlayer
10-2022 - 2-2023
Head of Product, Exchange
Blockchain.com
3-2020 - 9-2022
Senior Product Manager
Blockchain.com
In the press

Media appearances

Silvia Chen, Bilrost | ACTAI Global Maui 2025. Featured in YouTube
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theCUBE + NYSE Wired: Actai Maui | Silvia Chen, Bilrost. Featured in theCUBE
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Education
Bachelor of Arts - BA
Boston University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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