Investing Profile

Jai Choi(401)

VCInvestorFounder
Founding Partner at Tekton Ventures
tektonventures.comSan Francisco Bay Area
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47 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), and 44 other investors on Signal.

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Current Investing Position
Tekton Ventures Managing Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $1M
Sweet Spot
$500K
Investments On Record
44

Jai Choi is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Jai Choi's Investments On Record (37)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Hum Capital
Series AAug 2021$9M
SeedJun 2020$9M
$23M
Co-investors: Nick Adams (AME Cloud Ventures), Howard Morgan (B Capital Group), Steve Jurvetson (Future Ventures), Maynard Webb (Webb Investment Network), Paul Heydon, Ron Pragides
Kyash
Series CMar 2020$43M
$98M
Co-investors: Eric Kim (Goodwater Capital), Rahul Mehta (DST Global), 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), Auren Hoffman (Flex Capital), Thomas Korte (AngelPad), Nicolas El Baze (Partech Ventures), Carine Magescas (AngelPad), Jason Heltzer (Origin Ventures), Howard Hartenbaum (Lobby Capital), Jonah Goodhart (WGI Group), Ron Rofe (Rainfall Ventures), Ben Narasin (Tenacity Venture Capital), Jared Kopf, Kamiar Kordari, Anthony Soohoo
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), Matt Wyndowe (Graph Ventures), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capitail)), Diana Moldavsky (Tencent Games), Javier Olivan, Gokul Rajaram, Charlie Songhurst
Frontier Car Group
Series AMay 2017$22M
$80M
Co-investors: Daniel Waterhouse (Balderton Capital), Oskar Hartmann
Diamond
Series UnknownMar 2017$2M
$2M
Toss
Series CMar 2017$48M
$830M
Co-investors: Vic Koch (Koch Fund), Noah Knauf (Bond), Daegwon Chae (Bond), Eric Kim (Goodwater Capital)

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

Jai Choi's Education

University of Southern California B.S. Finance and Economics