Jai Choi

Jai Choi

Founding Partner at Tekton Ventures

Bio


Jai joined Partech in 2006 as Partner. Jai is also a founder of Tekton Ventures, a global seed stage venture firm he founded in 2010.
Jai has spent over 15 years in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur and early stage investor. He invested in over 80+ early stage companies since inception of Tekton including Coupang, Memebox, Frontier Car Group, Toss, Signifyd, Korbit, Bugcrowd, Hyperloop One, Outdoorsy, etc. Jai was a partner with Ignite Ventures, a venture fund and advisory group with limited partners from major Asia-based technology conglomerates.

Jai was an early employee at OnePage Software, a content personalization platform acquired by Sybase in 2001. Jai previously co-founded On-Air Networks in 1997, an online radio company acquired by Loudeye (Nokia). He started his career in management consulting at PA Consulting Group, working for major telecom and energy companies.

Jai is an accelerator mentor to Mucker Labs, SparkLabs and Draper University. Jai received a Bachelor Science from University of Southern California.

Career


Founding Partner

Tekton Ventures

2009 - Present

Partner

Partech

2006 - Present

Seed Investor

Coupang

2010 - Present

Early Stage Investor

Viva Republica (Toss)

2017 - Present

Seed Investor

Frontier Car Group

2016 - Present

Seed Investor

Signifyd

2012 - Present

Seed Investor

Outdoorsy

2015 - Present

Seed Investor

Zenyum

2019 - Present

Seed Investor

Bugcrowd Inc

2013 - Present

Seed Investor

Tripalink Corp.

2018 - Present

Early Stage Investor

Kyash

2020 - Present

Seed Investor

Capital

2019 - Present

Seed Investor

Flutterwave

2016 - Present

Seed investor

RoadSync

2019 - Present

Seed Investor

Beam

2019 - Present

Seed Investor

GrubMarket Inc.

2015 - Present

Seed Investor

Mindlogic.ai

2019 - Present

Seed investor

Calii

2020 - Present

Seed Investor

Pei

2020 - Present

Seed Investor

PayJoy

2017 - Present

Seed Investor

Runa

2018 - Present

Early Stage Investor

MollyBox

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

Lidya

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

Memebox Corporation

2014 - Present

Seed Investor

Fretlink

2017 - Present

Seed Investor

Endless West

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

LemonBox

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

Bnext

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

Thursday Boot Company

2018 - Present

Seed investor

May Mobility

2017 - Present

Seed Investor

Atrium LTS

2017 - Present

Seed Investor

Mandaê

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

EAT Club

2011 - Present

Seed Investor

Candex

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

Freightwalla

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

atVenu

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

Cotopaxi.com

2014 - Present

Early Stage Investor

The Bouqs Company

2017 - Present

Seed Investor

Cuvva

2016 - Present

Investor

Hyperloop One

2016 - Present

Seed Investor

Flirtey

2015 - Present

Seed Investor

Axinan

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

Fastwork Technologies Co., Ltd.

2018 - Present

Seed Investor

BrightFunnel (Acq by Terminus)

2019 - Present

Seed Investor

Ascend Consumer Finance (Acq by Jora Financial)

2015 - Present

Seed investor

PLAE (www.goplae.com)

2012 - Present

Seed Investor

Man Crates

2014 - Present

Seed Investor

Deako

2016 - Present

Seed Investor

Instacarro.com

2016 - Present

Seed investor

Oku Tech (FastFox.com)

2016 - Present

Seed Investor

dopay

2015 - Present

Seed Investor

Truebil

2015 - Present

Seed Investor

Kuainiu Express(Yeemu.cn)

2015 - Present

Seed Investor

Birdly

2016 - Present

Seed Investor

TapFwd

2014 - Present

Seed Investor

PriceMatch

2013 - Present

Seed Investor

Jobr, Inc. (Acquired by Monster Worldwide)

2014 - Present

Seed Investor

Attune Inc.

2013 - Present

Seed Investor

Sidecar Technologies(Acquired by GM)

2013 - Present

Co-Founder | Seed Investor

PeerPong, Inc. (Acquired by Formspring.me)

2008 - 2011

Principal

IGNITE Ventures (aka IGNITE Group)

2001 - 2006

Director

OnePage (Acquired by Sybase, Inc)

1999 - 2001

Co-founder and Executive

ON-AIR Networks (acquired by Loudeye/Nokia)

1997 - 1999

Senior Analyst

PA Consulting Group

1996 - 1997

Background


Education
  • University of Southern California - B.S. Finance and Economics, 1992 - 1996
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