Investing Profile

Jai Choi(529)

VCInvestorFounder

Partner at Partech

tektonventures.comSan Francisco Bay Area

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Jai Choi's investing connections

61 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), and 58 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position

Partech Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $1M

Sweet Spot

$500K

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$300M

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Jai Choi's Investments On Record (38)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Prósperos	SeedJun 2024$3M	$3.3M
Co-investors: Senofer Mendoza (Mendoza Ventures), Nicolas El Baze (Partech Ventures)
Hum Capital	Series AAug 2021$9M SeedJun 2020$9M	$35M
Co-investors: Howard Morgan (B Capital Group), Nick Adams (AME Cloud Ventures), Maynard Webb (Webb Investment Network), Paul Heydon (AppOnboard), Steve Jurvetson (Baruch Future Ventures), Mark Mullen (Bonfire Ventures), Ron Pragides
Kyash	Series CMar 2020$43M	$100M
Co-investors: Rahul Mehta (DST Global), Eric Kim (Goodwater Capital), Michael Sidgmore (Broadhaven Capital Partners)
LemonBox	SeedDec 2018$2M	$2M
Wove	Series ASep 2018$9M SeedOct 2016$3M	$12M
Co-investors: Deepak Kamra (Canaan Partners), Ben Narasin (Canvas Prime), Jonah Goodhart (WGI Group), Nicolas El Baze (Partech Ventures), Ron Rofe (Vaizra Investments), Carine Magescas (AngelPad), Auren Hoffman (Datavant), Jared Kopf (NextRoll, Inc. (formerly AdRoll Group)), Thomas Korte (AngelPad), Jason Heltzer (Origin Ventures), Anthony Soohoo (AI Fund), Howard Hartenbaum (August Capital), Kamiar Kordari
Grabr	Series AMar 2018$8M	$11M
Co-investors: Pete Flint (NFX), Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), Chris Farmer (SignalFire), James Currier (NFX), Mike Ghaffary (Canvas Ventures), Charles Moldow (Foundation Capital), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Diana Moldavsky (Tencent Holdings), Zach Noorani (Clear Current Capital), Matt Wyndowe (Graph Ventures), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Javier Olivan, Charlie Songhurst
Frontier Car Group	Series AMay 2017$22M	$80M
Co-investors: Daniel Waterhouse (Balderton Capital), Oskar Hartmann
Diamond	Series UnknownMar 2017$2M	$2M

Jai Choi's Media (1)

home - Tekton

www.tektonventures.com

most interested in

Tekton is an global seed fund that makes early stage investments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world. What excites me is founders looking to build truly global venture scale businesses from scratch!

not interested in

Biotech, Energy.

Jai Choi's Experience

Partner Partech2006 - Present

Senior Analyst BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Co-founder and Executive BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Director BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Principal BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Seed Investor BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Early Stage Investor BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Senior Analyst University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Co-founder and Executive University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Director University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Principal University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Seed Investor University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Early Stage Investor University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Adjunct Professor Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies - USC MarshallPresent

Seed Investor NewCoPresent

Founder | Managing Partner Tekton VenturesPresent

Seed Investor CoupangPresent

Early Stage Investor TossPresent

Venture Partner PartechPresent

Senior Analyst NewCoPresent

Co-founder and Executive NewCoPresent

Director NewCoPresent

Principal NewCoPresent

Co-Founder | Seed Investor PeerPong Inc.Present

Seed Investor EAT ClubPresent

Seed Investor PLAE (plae.co)Present

Seed Investor Attune InsightsPresent

Seed Investor Side CarPresent

Seed Investor BugcrowdPresent

Seed Investor Memebox Corp (YC W14)Present

Seed Investor CotopaxiPresent

Seed Investor SkyDropPresent

Seed Investor PlatoPresent

Seed Investor AtriumPresent

Seed Investor iglooPresent

Early Stage Investor NewCoPresent

Seed Investor Fastwork.coPresent

Seed Investor TripalinkPresent

Seed Investor Beam MobilityPresent

Seed Investor Hum CapitalPresent

Seed Investor ZenyumPresent

Early Stage Investor 마이리얼트립 (Myrealtrip)Present

Seed Investor Udhaar BookPresent

Seed Investor PashousesPresent

Seed Investor PandasPresent

Seed investor CaliiPresent

Seed Investor Atrium LLPPresent

Seed Investor AirwavePresent

Seed Investor FacioPresent

Seed Investor NG.CASHPresent

Seed Investor Bugcrowd IncPresent

Seed Investor Tripalink Corp.Present

Seed Investor Cotopaxi.comPresent

Seed Investor Flyx AIPresent

Seed Investor Redcoat.aiPresent

Seed Investor NowportsPresent

Seed Investor MeramaPresent

Seed Investor FlutterwavePresent

Venture Partner FEBE VenturesPresent

Senior Analyst PA ConsultingPresent

Co-founder and Executive ON-AIR Networks (acquired by Loudeye/Nokia)Present

Director OnePage (Acquired by Sybase, Inc)Present

Principal IGNITE Ventures (aka IGNITE Group)Present

Co-Founder | Seed Investor PeerpongPresent

Seed Investor Sidecar (acquired by GM)Present

Seed Investor Attune Inc.Present

Seed Investor Jobr, Inc. (Acquired by Monster Worldwide)Present

Seed Investor PriceMatchPresent

Seed Investor TapFwdPresent

Seed Investor BirdlyPresent

Seed Investor Kuainiu Express(Yeemu.cn)Present

Seed Investor TruebilPresent

Seed Investor dopayPresent

Seed Investor InstaCarro.comPresent

Investor Hyperloop OnePresent

Seed Investor GrubMarket Inc.Present

Seed Investor Frontier Car GroupPresent

Seed Investor Flutterwave INCPresent

Seed Investor FlirteyPresent

Seed Investor CuvvaPresent

Seed Investor Cotopaxi - Gear for GoodPresent

Seed Investor BeamPresent

Seed Investor atVenuPresent

Seed Investor Oku Tech (FastFox.com)Present

Seed Investor DeakoPresent

Seed Investor Ascend Consumer Finance (Acq by Jora Financial)Present

Seed Investor BrightFunnel (Acq by Terminus)Present

Seed Investor Fastwork Technologies Co., Ltd.Present

Seed Investor AxinanPresent

Seed Investor Thursday Boot CompanyPresent

Early Stage Investor The Bouqs CompanyPresent

Seed Investor SIGNIFYDPresent

Seed Investor RunaPresent

Seed investor RoadSyncPresent

Seed Investor FreightwallaPresent

Seed Investor CandexPresent

Seed Investor PLAE (www.goplae.com)Present

Seed Investor MandaêPresent

Seed Investor PayJoyPresent

Seed Investor BNEXTPresent

Seed Investor LemonBoxPresent

Seed Investor Endless WestPresent

Seed Investor FretlinkPresent

Seed Investor LidyaPresent

Early Stage Investor MollyBoxPresent

Seed Investor Mindlogic.aiPresent

Seed Investor OutdoorsyPresent

Seed Investor Memebox CorporationPresent

Seed Investor CapitalPresent

Early Stage Investor KyashPresent

Seed Investor May MobilityPresent

Early Stage Investor Viva Republica (Toss)Present

Seed Investor Man CratesPresent

Founding Partner Tekton VenturesPresent

Seed Investor Coupang (formerly CalmSea)Present

Partner Partech InternationalPresent

Seed Investor PeiPresent

Jai Choi's Education

University of Southern California B.S. Finance and Economics

Investors who invest with Jai Choi

André François-Poncet

Scouts & Angels Affiliated With Jai Choi

Broadhaven Capital Partners