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