Investing Profile

Jai Choi(376)

VCInvestorFounder
Founding Partner at Tekton Ventures
tektonventures.comSan Francisco Bay Area
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Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), and 42 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
46

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Jai Choi's Investments On Record (39)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Hum Capital
Series AAug 2021$9M
Seed RoundJun 2020$9M
$32M
Co-investors: Nick Adams (AME Cloud Ventures), Howard Morgan (B Capital Group), Steve Jurvetson (Future Ventures), Maynard Webb (Webb Investment Network), Maryanna Saenko (Future Ventures), Paul Heydon, Mathieu Guerville
Kyash
Series CMar 2020¥4.7B
¥11B
Co-investors: Eric Kim (Goodwater Capital), Michael Sidgmore (Broadhaven Capital Partners)
LemonBox
Seed RoundDec 2018$2M
$2M
Candex Technologies
Seed RoundMar 2018$3.5M
$3.5M
Co-investors: Mark Goines
Grabr
Series AMar 2018$8M
$13M
Co-investors: Chris Farmer (SignalFire), James Currier (NFX), Pete Flint (NFX), Mike Ghaffary (Canvas Ventures), Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), Charles Moldow (Foundation Capital), Sebastien de Halleux (Graph Ventures), Matt Wyndowe (Graph Ventures), Brianne Kimmel (WorkLife Ventures), Diana Moldavsky (Tencent Games), Gokul Rajaram, Javier Olivan, Charlie Songhurst
Atrium LTS
Series AJun 2017$11M
$87M
Co-investors: Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Andrew Chen (Andreessen Horowitz), David Cheng (DCM), Osuke Honda (DCM), Brian Shin (General Catalyst), Loren Straub (Bowery Capital), Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), Robin Chan (Goat Capital), Mike Ghaffary (Canvas Ventures), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Gil Penchina (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins), Bennett Rogers (Pioneer Fund), Armaan Ali (Human Capital), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Steve Jang (Kindred Ventures), Josh Breinlinger (Turtle Ventures), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), Dharmesh Shah, Samvit Ramadurgam, Immad Akhund, Joshua Reeves, Manish Shah, Matt Brezina, Tikhon Bernstam, Sohail Prasad, Tirto Adji, Wayne Chang, Adrian Aoun, Charlie Songhurst, Karim Atiyeh, Chris Fanini, Rene Reinsberg, Mikhail Seregine, Michał Borkowski, Travis VanderZanden, Paul McKellar, Desmond Lim
Frontier Car Group
Series AMay 2017$22M
$80M
Co-investors: Daniel Waterhouse (Balderton Capital), Dmitry Alimov (Frontier Ventures)
Diamond
Venture RoundMar 2017$2M
$2M

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