JC

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

  • 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

  • Investor

    2020

    Bangladesh's super app

  • Investor

    2022

    Sourced and led Series B. ESG data platform for fashion retailers, brands, manufacturers and consumers

  • 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.

  • 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

Relevant Websites