Ethan Choi
Partner @ Accel
San Francisco, United States
Ethan Choi is a partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on growth‑stage investments across sectors including AI, enterprise software, fintech infrastructure, and e‑commerce. Prior to joining Khosla Ventures in early 2024, he was a partner at Accel, working on growth investments in companies such as Klaviyo, 1Password, Pismo, Nuvemshop, andcommercetools. Earlier in his career, Choi invested through Spectrum Equity, backing businesses like Lynda.com, ExamSoft, PicMonkey, Headspace, and Lucid Software. He studied information systems and economics at the University of Sydney before earning a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University. Choi has also served on boards and in advisory roles with various technology companies as part of his venture work.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Ethan Choi invests in
Stages Ethan Choi invests in
Countries Ethan Choi invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (33%)
- SaaS 4 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (20%)
- Security 2 (13%)
- Analytics 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series C 6 (40%)
- Series B 4 (27%)
- Series D 2 (13%)
- Seed 1 (7%)
- Series E 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 6 (40%)
- Brazil 2 (13%)
- Canada 1 (7%)
- Indonesia 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system that focuses on real-time analytical reporting. It enables users to execute complex SQL queries efficiently, making it suitable for applications that require fast data processing and analysis. The system is particularly effective for big data environments, allowingorganizations to manage and analyze large volumes of information seamlessly. ClickHouse supports various data ingestion methods and offers features that facilitate data warehousing and observability. Its architecture is designed to optimize performance and scalability, catering to the needs of sales teams and data analysts seeking actionable insights from their data. | $350M / Series C / May 29, 2025 | ||
| Cyberhaven is the data security company revolutionizing how companies protect their important information from theft and misuse.Security products only recognized and protected a limited range of data types because they relied on finding patterns in the content itself. Data tracing technology analyzes billions of events surrounding every piece ofdata to better understand and classify it, allowing for the protection of a broader range of sensitive data in any form, anywhere it goes. | $100M / Series D / Apr 02, 2025 | ||
| Outsmart Education seeks to increase college accessibility and affordability in the face of growing student loan debt and tuition prices. | $13M / Seed / Nov 18, 2024 | ||
| Cyberhaven is the data security company revolutionizing how companies protect their important information from theft and misuse.Security products only recognized and protected a limited range of data types because they relied on finding patterns in the content itself. Data tracing technology analyzes billions of events surrounding every piece ofdata to better understand and classify it, allowing for the protection of a broader range of sensitive data in any form, anywhere it goes. | $88M / Series C / Jun 11, 2024 | ||
| Anrok provides a software platform for global sales tax and VAT compliance. It handles integration with billing, payment, and HR systems to monitor tax exposure, validate VAT IDs, automate sales tax calculations, manage registrations, and coordinate filing and remittance processes. The company supports real-time tax collection, tracking of physicaland economic nexus and consolidated compliance reporting across jurisdictions. It offers no-code and API‐based connections to finance stacks, facilitating audit-ready transaction logs and jurisdictional coverage for digital services and goods. | $30M / Series B / Apr 11, 2024 | ||
| Invoca is the recognized leader in conversation intelligence AI that enables marketing, e-commerce, and contact center teams to drive efficient and profitable revenue growth by unlocking actionable insights from customer conversations. Through deep integrations with leading technology platforms, teams can turn conversation data into automatedaction to enhance every digital touchpoint and human interaction, leading to better experiences, more conversions, and higher revenue. With Invoca, top consumer brands, including AutoNation, DIRECTV, Mayo Clinic, Mutual of Omaha, and Verizon, experience unbelievable results powered by undeniable data. Invoca has raised $184M from leading venture capitalists, including Upfront Ventures, Accel, Silver Lake Waterman, H.I.G. Growth Partners, and Salesforce Ventures. For more information, visit www.invoca.com. | $83M / Series F / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| 1Password is a secure, convenient password manager, providing businesses and families a safe way to share passwords, credit cards, and documents. It keeps important information secure with AES 256-bit encryption. With 1Password, users can keep all kinds of information easily organized with convenient categories and tags and find what they need witha customizable search.Founded in 2005, 1Password remembers and fills web forms with passwords, credit card information, and addresses—with a single click. It is focused on making security convenient and keeping customers happy. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario in Canada. | $620M / Series C / Jan 19, 2022 | ||
| Pluang is a financial technology application that opens public access opportunities to financial products easily and affordably. The company offers a gold savings product that allows investments starting from 0.01 grams and provides users with real-time liquidity and peace of mind as the gold is kept in a government-backed institution through theofficial Indonesian commodities exchange.Founded in 2019, Pluang is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. | $55M / Series B / Jan 12, 2022 | ||
| Pismo is a technology company providing an all-in-one processing platform for banking, payments, and financial markets infrastructure. Large banks, marketplaces, and fintech already use cloud-native microservices platforms. | $108M / Series B / Oct 19, 2021 | ||
| Shogun is an E-commerce platform that helps brands create unique buying experiences and optimize their online stores. It specializes in the fields of eCommerce, Shopify, big commerce, web development, web design, and web content management. Shogun was founded on February 27, 2015, by Nick Raushenbush, Finbarr Taylor, and Damien Kan. | $67.5M / Series C / Jun 30, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Accel
Accel invests in sectors such as enterprise software, consumer internet, financial technology, and cybersecurity. It participates in funding rounds ranging from seed and pre-seed stages to growth-stage capital. Beyond direct investment, the organization offers operational resources to assist founders with product development and talent recruitment.The firm connects entrepreneurs with a network of industry peers and mentors to facilitate market expansion.
Accel Contacts
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Amit Kumar
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Amy Saper
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Anand Daniel
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Andrei Brasoveanu
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What does Ethan Choi invest in?
Ethan Choi invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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