Jai Choi
Founding Partner @ Tekton Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Jai Choi is a seed investor at Tekton Ventures in San Francisco focused on E-Commerce and Mobile. Jai joined Partech International in 2006 and focuses on early stage opportunities in Internet, Software and Mobile. He has spent most of his career as a serial entrepreneur and early stage investor. Jai is currently a founder of Tekton Ventures, a seed stage venture fund focused on helping founders build and grow their early stage companies. Jai has invested in a number of companies at the seed stage including UserVoice, Coupang, TasteMakerX, EatClub, DoodleDeals(Plum District), Schoolfeed, etc. Jai was also a founder of PeerPong, a cloud-based semantic search company acquired by FormSpring.me in early 2011. Prior to Partech, Jai was a partner with IGNITE Ventures, a $250M venture fund and advisory group with strategic limited partners from major Asia-based technology conglomerates. Jai has extensive experience advising and working with major Asia-based technology companies on new growth platforms, new business formation, joint venture, and M&A. 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 to deliver copyright licensed music over the Internet. On-Air was acquired in late 1999 by Loudeye (Nokia). Jai started his career in management consulting at PA Consulting Group, focused on market-related and operational issues for major telecom and energy companies. Jai received a Bachelor Science from University of Southern California. In his spare time, Jai enjoy spending time with his family and two young children. Jai is also an amateur cook with aspirations of appearing on the next Top Chef. Jai is an advisor to a number of start-ups and a mentor to Mucker Labs, a Los Angeles based accelerator.
- Total investments:
- 51
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Jai Choi invests in
Stages Jai Choi invests in
Countries Jai Choi invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 10 (20%)
- Mobile 7 (14%)
- FinTech 7 (14%)
- Internet 7 (14%)
- Software 6 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 24 (47%)
- Series A 12 (24%)
- Funding Round 4 (8%)
- Series C 2 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 30 (59%)
- China 1 (2%)
- India 1 (2%)
- Japan 1 (2%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Founded in 2023 by Vinay Pai and Salvador Chavez, Prósperos is delivering an innovative financial platform that allows millions of Latinos to manage their finances while taking care of their family in the USA and Latin America.The Prósperos platform provides two bank accounts and two cards– one for the account holder in the USA and one for theirfamily in Mexico, and soon Central and South America. With Prósperos, customers can say goodbye to slow and costly money-transfer solutions, and their families no longer need to wait in line to pick up cash. Within seconds, funds are available to family members in Latin America. | $3M / Seed / Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| Hum Capital is the funding platform that connects great companies with the right capital. Hum offers companies raising up to $50 million the most efficient, transparent path to growth. Hum’s Intelligent Capital Market uses AI to translate volumes of a company’s financial data into the clearest picture of their value, so they can fundraise withconfidence, on the best terms for their business. Investors on Hum’s platform gain investment insights and a personalized deal flow built on company data they can trust. For more information, visit HumCapital.com. | $9M / Series A / Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| Hum Capital is the funding platform that connects great companies with the right capital. Hum offers companies raising up to $50 million the most efficient, transparent path to growth. Hum’s Intelligent Capital Market uses AI to translate volumes of a company’s financial data into the clearest picture of their value, so they can fundraise withconfidence, on the best terms for their business. Investors on Hum’s platform gain investment insights and a personalized deal flow built on company data they can trust. For more information, visit HumCapital.com. | $9M / Seed / Jun 30, 2020 | ||
| Kyash is a Japanese fintech startup offering consumer / business payment services. Kyash was founded on January 23, 2015, and is based in Tokyo, Japan. | $43.3M / Series C / Mar 31, 2020 | ||
| LemonBox combines big data and US registered dietitians, to offer personal, nutritional, and living-well advice to Chinese customers. It provides personalized daily vitamin packs made in the U.S. and shipped to customers within 7-10 days, based on a monthly subscription model. LemonBox was founded in 2016 and is based in Beijing, China. | $2M / Seed / Dec 13, 2018 | ||
| Wove envisions a world where brands grow together. To support this vision, Wove is building the world’s largest network for marketing partnerships, where trusted brands reach each other’s loyal customers and make them their own - all while protecting consumer privacy. With backing from August Capital, Partech, and Origin Ventures, Wove enablesbrands to transform their marketing efforts by unlocking the power of other brands' data. | $9M / Series A / Sep 19, 2018 | ||
| Grabr is a global community marketplace that allows people to get unique or hard-to-find items from around the world by connecting them with travelers headed their way. Grabr is the safe, fast and friendly way to get anything from anywhere in the world and earn money on the road. | $8M / Series A / Mar 06, 2018 | ||
| Frontier Car Group is a berlin-based startup who develop, launch, and operate used-automotive marketplaces within emerging market economies, with operations in Nigeria, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Pakistan, and Indonesia. Additionally, we are successfully engaging in two joint ventures with OLX in India and Poland. We increase theefficiency of selling and buying cars through technology, infra-structure creation, access to capital and innovative business models that allows all stakeholders to gain from our impact. | $22M / Series A / May 23, 2017 | ||
| Diamond allows you to access all of your files and emails across Google Drive, Gmail, Dropbox, and more, directly from Diamond. | $2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 15, 2017 | ||
| Toss is a South Korea-based mobile financial service platform operated by fintech startup Viva Republica.Its application offers peer-to-peer money transfers, manages credit scores and bank accounts, access loan and insurance plans, split bill options, QR payment and other similar services that enable users to manage their finance.Toss wasestablished in 2011 by Seunggun Lee in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi. | $48M / Series C / Mar 09, 2017 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Tekton Ventures
TEKTON VENTURES is an international seed investment firm that partners at inception with forward looking company builders in leading technology hubs worldwide. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stage investments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world. Passionate entrepreneurs exist in many parts of the world. Tekton Ventures focuses its investments in two different places: Silicon Valley and selected technology centers ( London and Israel); and the fast growing mobile/digitally connected markets in Asia (China, Korea and India). Our approach to global investing rests on partnerships with local venture ecosystems: we have built long standing relationships with some of the best local seed and venture investors in our geographies of focus. We see our unique global perspective as important to build transformational companies and make that knowledge available across our entire community of entrepreneurs.
Tekton Ventures Contacts
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Jai Choi
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Scott Matson
CFO
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Thomas Terdjman
European Director
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Vincent Worms
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What does Jai Choi invest in?
Jai Choi invests primarily in E-Commerce, Mobile and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 51 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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The most recent investment recorded for Jai Choi closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 51 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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