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Patrick Lee

Managing Partner at Top Corner Capital

Burlingame, California

Overview 

Patrick Lee is the Managing Partner at Top Corner Capital in Burlingame, California, with a background in venture capital, private equity, and corporate development. Highlights of his career include roles at Western Technology Investment and Pinnacle Ventures, along with experience at J.P. Morgan and Hambrecht & Quist, showcasing expertise in investments, due diligence, and business development.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2020 - Current

    Top Corner Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund investing both debt and equity fund and investing in private technology, consumer and healthcare companies. Founded in 2020, Top Corner Capital is is a silicon valley-based venture firm that specializes in investments in early and emerging fast growing start-ups.

Early stage venture capital fund investing both debt and equity in Seed and Series A stage companies across enterprise and consumer.

  • Investment Partner

    2012 - 2019

    Investment Partner investing in debt and equity over 5 funds in early to late stage private technology companies. Founded in 1980, WTI is a silicon valley-based venture firm that specializes in investments in early and emerging technology companies with prior portfolio companies such as Facebook, Google, Jet, Juniper, Ring, Stem Centrx and Stitch Fix.

Western Technology Investment is a venture capital firm that specializes in offering acquisition financing to revenue generating firms.

  • Investment Partner

    2004 - 2012

    Investment Partner investing in debt and equity over 5 funds in early to late stage private technology companies. Founded in 2002, Pinnacle is a silicon valley-based venture firm that specializes in investments in early and emerging technology companies with prior portfolio companies such as Bonobos, Chegg, Jasper, JBoss, One Medical, Pandora, Quidsi and Zipcar.

  • Principal

    1998 - 2003

    Led investments for the software investment group at JPMorgan Partners, a multi-billion dollar private equity and venture capital fund. JPMP was the lead investor and Board member in a number of early and late stage technology companies including VMWare, PentaSafe, Content Technologies and Tidal Software. Prior to that, was an early member of a venture capital fund closely affiliated with Hambrecht & Quist (acquired by JPMorgan), leading the software sector and making several private investments.

J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation provides commodity risk management solutions in both the physical .

  • Vice President

    1995 - 1999

    Vice President at Hambrecht & Quist covering many different facets in the firm including running the software M&A area, leading and closing over 100 different transactions including IPOs, private placements, M&A and private venture capital investments. H&Q was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in December 1999.

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