Minsoo Chi
Partner at Spider Capital
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.
Education
Sc.B
2009 - 2013
High School Diploma
2005 - 2009