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Minsoo Chi

Partner at Spider Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

    Spider Capital is a San Francisco-based seed-stage enterprise/B2B venture capital firm focused on the digital transformation of industries.

  • Principal

    2020 - 2022

  • Senior Associate

    2018 - 2020

  • Board Director

    2023

    Castellum's mission is to democratize financial crime compliance.

  • Investor

    2022

    Velt's mission is to make the web more collaborative.

  • Board Observer

    2021

    Cyble's mission is to protect organizations and governments from external and internal cyber threats.

  • Board Observer

    2020

    Klir's mission is to help water utilities make water safer.

  • Board Observer

    2019

    Smartex's mission is to empower factories to produce with zero waste and transparency.

  • Associate

    2016 - 2018

    Responsibilities: Market analysis, investment analysis, deal diligence Primary Focus: Evaluate investment opportunities for growth stage venture backed companies. Significant focus on digital health and enterprise software investment opportunities. Firm Description: With more than $1B under management, ngp capital (www.ngpcap.com) specializes in growth stage investing seeking entrepreneurs building intelligent devices and services connecting everybody and everything. The firm offers market insight, support, a deep network and a global reach spanning the United States, Europe, India and China.

  • Senior Analyst

    2016 - 2016

  • Senior Associate Consultant

    2015 - 2016

    Equipment component manufacturer - US Go-To-Market Strategy for a PE Portfolio Company (October 2015 – January 2016) Primary focus: Understand the best way to employ direct sales and channel partners against a complex matrix of customer types and use cases to improve sales growth. First 3 weeks on building fact base. Subsequent 3 weeks on designing GTM model. Last 4 weeks on implementation. M&A Integration Toolkit Development - Internal IP Case (July 2015 – September 2015) Primary focus: Worked with a third party software vendor to develop Bain proprietary software toolkit for future Bain M&A integration support cases.

  • Associate Consultant

    2013 - 2015

    Life Sciences Company – Growth Strategy (March 2015 – July 2015) Wrote consulting project proposal and subsequently staffed on this case after winning the proposal. Primary focus: (1) Understand 50 product lines and how each product line is linked, in terms of customer, capability, and cost-sharing (2) Evaluate which areas to invest and divest (3) Formulate alternate corporate strategy options. Private Equity Group (April 2014 – December 2014) Worked with marquee PE firms on eight commercial due diligence projects on target companies in various markets: (1) fire suppression, (2) food service distribution, (3) premium activewear, (4) (5) women’s apparel, (6) home infusion therapy, (7) O&G equipment (8) slip-resistant shoes. Life Sciences Companies – M&A Integration Management Office (August 2013 – April 2014) Developed and refined headcount trackers, which are Excel-based user-intuitive models used by clients to track headcount changes and calculate financial impact, for all 30 workstreams.

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