Jai Choi
Global tech investor
Jai Choi
Global tech investor
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder | Managing Partner
2009 - Current
TEKTON VENTURES is a an early stage investment firm specializing in backing enduring companies in fintech, consumer and enterprise technology across the globe. Our unfair advantage lies in decades of investing in early stage companies globally with Silicon Valley base and extraordinary pattern recognition. > Limited Partner in over 50 top early stage venture capital managers globally > Select late stage investments include Alibaba, Palantir, Uber, Instacart, etc Serve as a mentor / advisor to various start-ups and accelerators - Mucker Lab, SparkLabs.
Tekton Ventures is a seed-stage investment firm that partners with technology-focused entrepreneurs to build category defining companies.
Venture Partner
2024
A global seed-focused venture capital firm led by a team of ex-founders who have collectively built more than 30 companies and backed ~200+ startups. Read more about our Fund II launch at https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/28/febe-ventures-launches-75-million-second-fund/
Venture Partner
2006
Founded in 1982, Partech Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. We are a partnership with $1.5B under active management currently investing across seed to growth stage globally. 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, venture and growth funds, allowing ourselves to invest from $250,000 to $30 million in the early institutional rounds of high growth companies. Partech has a unique 35+ year track record assisting its portfolio companies to become global market leaders. To learn more go to www.partechventures.com.
Seed Investor
2010
2021 IPO on NYSE under ticker symbol: CPNG. One of the largest online retailers in Asia. Amazon of Korea.
Early Stage Investor
2017
Leading mobile banking platform for Korea
Seed Investor
2012
Leading fraud protection platform for ecommerce
Signifyd is a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
Raised $409,000,000.00 from CPP Investments, FIS, Owl Rock Capital and Neuberger Berman.
Seed Investor
2016
Leading cross border payment service for Pan Africa region
Barter is a app which Manage your finances.
Seed Investor
2020
Ecommerce platform that partners with the best and largest online group of brands in Latin America.
Seed Investor
2019
Leading digital freight forwarder that automates the supply chain process of companies.
Seed Investor
2015
GrubMarket's mission is to change the world by making it easy for food producers of any scale and buyers to connect and share food, by supplying fresh, locally-sourced, healthy food with affordable prices and convenient delivery.
GrubMarket is an AI-powered prominent B2B eCommerce business operating in the American food supply chain industry.
Raised $499,100,000.00 from Liberty Street Funds, The K Fund, ROC VENTURE GROUP, Grosvenor Food & AgTech, Celtic House Asia Partners, Apeira Capital, Squarepoint Capital, Tiger Global Management, Disruptive Ventures and Walleye Capital.
Education
B.S.
1992 - 1996