Joe Tsai
Investor at Mucker Capital
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Early Fund (Seed and Series A)
2021 - Current
Named after Thomas Edison's "Muckers" (OG hackers who experimented in his lab), Mucker Capital partners with founders who share Edison's philosophy of pursuing success via persistent and iterative execution. I currently lead seed and Series A investments at Mucker.
Vice President
2016 - 2021
Made $10-75m investments in rapidly growing software and consumer companies with best-in-class products. Helped form and establish Stripes' software investment team, and sourced and supported the firm's investments in BacklotCars (acq by KAR for $425m), Cypress.io, Emotive, On Running (NYSE: ONON), Pleo and Sift.
Stripes is a growth equity firm that invests in software and consumer businesses.
Management Consultant
2013 - 2016
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Research and Data Analyst
2012 - 2012
CB Insights is a market intelligence platform that predicts company health and strategy, investor performance, and technology trends.
Raised $11,650,000.00 from Pilot Growth Equity.