Jackie Chen
Principal at Base10 Partners
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2022 - Current
Investor
2022 - 2023
Founded by Adeyemi Ajao and TJ Nahigian, Base10 is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund ($2B+) investing in founders who believe purpose is key profits and companies that are automating sectors of the Real Economy, including transportation, healthcare, retail, logistics, and construction. The Advancement Initiative, Base10’s growth-stage fund, donates 50% of profits to Historically Black Colleges and Universities to support financial aid and other key initiatives. Portcos include Reddit, Notion, Figma, Plaid, Nubank, Contentful, Buk, Nowports, Motive, Popmenu
Base10 is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the automation of the real economy.
Investor / Board
2024
Lead Investor. Ramp for Brazilian SMEs.
Investor / Board
2023
Lead investor. Rippling for Latin America
Investor & LP
2022
Founders, investors, and operators investing in the next generation of Asian-American founders Investments: - Workstream - Sanzo - Beacons.ai
Investor
2020
Tools for software builders (devs, PMs, sys. admins, devOps) on Atlassian, NOW, Salesforce, PowerBI, Monday.com. Sourced when <$10M ARR and bootstrapped, sourced and integrated subsequent 20+ transformative acquisitions. Marked up by TA Associates in ~9 months. Over $200m ARR today
Appfire is a provider of Atlassian enterprise products and services.
Raised $149,000,000.00 from TA Associates and Silversmith Capital Partners.
Investor
2020
Bangladesh's super app
Investor
2022
Sourced and led Series B. ESG data platform for fashion retailers, brands, manufacturers and consumers
Worldly is a technology company that delivers real data specific to your supply chain, products, and operations.
Growth Equity Investor
2019 - 2022
$3.3B growth equity / private equity firm - first check into Webflow, ActiveCampaign, Appfire, impact.com, DistroKid, PDFTron, Gearset, Constructor.io and Lifestance, just to name a few. Sourced and led technology growth investments.
Silversmith Capital Partners is partnering with entrepreneurs in the technology and healthcare industry.
Co-Founder CEO
2019 - 2019
Wanted to improve intern experiences for both interns and managers. Built onboarding and mgmt SaaS platform for interns. Sold into career centers, universities, hospitals & breweries around the US
Private Equity Investor
2018 - 2018
£50B European PE firm. Tech & Healthcare Buyout