Entrepreneur, seed investor and international venture capitalist with start-up and multinational corporate experience. Relationships span across US, Europe and Asia with leading Internet, technology, media and mobile companies.
Founder | Managing Director @ Tekton Ventures is a seed stage investment firm that partners with ambitious founders who build category defining companies. We work with entrepreneurs who seek to solve deep rooted problems through technology. We believe every company needs to have an unfair advantage through proprietary technological, product, design or business model innovation. We look for great teams that look to harness this advantage at scale.
Investments include:
> Coupang - one of the largest ecommerce companies in Korea
> Petnet - smartest pet feeder on the planet
> Mancrates - leading men's online gifting ecommerce service
> Virtuix - a new virtual reality platform
> Gem - secure development platform for cryptocurrency
> Cotopaxi - an outdoor gear brand with a social mission
> Memebox - online beauty products brand
> The Orange Chef - smart kitchen products
> Attune - personalization as a service for eCommerce / retail
> Sidecar - real-time mobile ride sharing community
> Bugcrowd - crowdsourced security for web and mobile
> PriceMatch - price optimization platform for hospitality
> Priceless - big data meets the art world
> HeartThis - social commerce service
> HotHouse Labs - enterprise mobile productivity
> EatClub - online lunch ordering service
> Younity - mobile personal cloud made simple
> Sensopia - maker of MagicPlan, dynamic mobile floor plan software.
> Signifyd - frictionless payment validation software
> Chute - cloud infrastructure platform for scalable media applications
> UserVoice - SaaS-based customer management platform
> TasteMakerX - mobile social music game
> Betable - social game monetization platform for real money transactions
> GreenCar - korea's leading car sharing service(acquired by KT Gumho/Hertz of Korea)
> LP in several international Seed/VC funds as well as a few select Private Equity and Hedge Funds
> Late stage investments include Alibaba, Palantir, etc
Serve as a mentor / advisor to various start-ups and accelerators - Mucker Lab From 2009 to Present (6 years) Seed Investor @ From 2010 to Present (5 years) Seed Investor @ From 2014 to Present (1 year) Seed Investor @ Next-generation, direct-to-consumer, outdoor gear and apparel company with a social focused mission of eradicating extreme poverty From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Seed Investor @ From 2011 to Present (4 years) San Francisco Bay AreaSeed Investor @ Predictive Marketing Intelligence for CMOs From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSeed Investor @ From 2013 to Present (2 years) Seed Investor @ The intelligent mobile ad platform | Powered by data from everywhere From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSeed Investor @ From 2013 to Present (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaSeed Investor @ Attune increases sales by instantly optimizing product collections, and options, for mobile and web.
By reading, evaluating and responding in real-time to information from both products and customers, we elevate the products each customer is most likely to buy within each collection. We also optimize within product options so that your customer sees the right versions of the products they're most likely to want, every time. From 2013 to Present (2 years) Venture Partner @ Founded in 1982, Partech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in San Francisco, Paris and Berlin. Started in 1982, we are a partnership with $650 million under active management currently investing out of a $200M+ Fund 6.
Our mission is to help outstanding entrepreneurs to succeed in a global economy. We look for companies with a substantial technology or innovation leverage, both in consumer internet and information technology.
We manage seed and venture funds, allowing ourselves to invest from $250,000 to $10 million in the early institutional rounds of high growth companies.
Partech has a unique 30+ year track record assisting its portfolio companies to become global market leaders. To learn more go to www.partechventures.com.
Current investments and board involvement include: Attune.co(Personalization engine for ecommerce), HeartThis(Social shopping), Plae (Online kids shoe and apparel brand), PeerPong (Social Search), Brands4Friends(EBay), RockYou (Social Media Ad Platform), and Invensense. From 2006 to Present (9 years) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-Founder | Seed Investor @ Cloud-based semantic search web service incubated inside Partech. Seed funding from First Round Capital, DCM, and Charles River Ventures. From 2008 to May 2011 (3 years) Principal @ VC firm focused on investments in consumer-driven technologies and services. From 2001 to 2006 (5 years) Director @ - Personalization software & services company (Pageflakes for enterprise)
- Product Marketing / Business Development Executive From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-founder and Executive @ - Internet media infrastructure platform for delivering audio and video content to the Web
- Co-Founder and Product Marketing From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Greater Los Angeles AreaSenior Analyst @ - Strategy Consulting Firm headquartered in UK (Telecom, Infrastructure and Renewable Energy Group)
- Senior Analyst From 1996 to 1997 (1 year)
B.S., Finance and Economics @ University of Southern California From 1992 to 1996 Jai Choi is skilled in: E-commerce, Joint Ventures, Incubation, Start-ups, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Venture Capital, Cloud Computing, Management Consulting, Digital Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Emerging Markets, Private Equity, Angel Investing
Websites:
http://www.partechventures.com,
http://jaichoi.blogspot.com/