Jai Choi
Global tech investor
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder | Managing Partner
2009 - Current
TEKTON VENTURES is a an early stage investment firm specializing in backing enduring companies in fintech, consumer and enterprise technology across the globe. Our unfair advantage lies in decades of investing in early stage companies globally with Silicon Valley base and extraordinary pattern recognition. > Limited Partner in over 60 top early stage venture capital managers globally > Select late stage investments include Alibaba, Palantir, Uber, Instacart, etc Serve as a mentor / advisor to various funds, start-ups and accelerators - Mucker Lab, SparkLabs, Raise Global Steering Committee, and Cendana Capital.
Tekton Ventures is a seed-stage investment firm that partners with technology-focused entrepreneurs to build category defining companies.
Venture Partner
2024
A global seed-focused venture capital firm led by a team of ex-founders who have collectively built more than 30 companies and backed ~200+ startups. Read more about our Fund II launch at https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/28/febe-ventures-launches-75-million-second-fund/
Venture Partner
2006
Founded in 1982, Partech Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. today the firm manage $2.5B+ AUM and current portfolio of 220 companies in 40 countries, across 4 continents. investing across seed to growth stage globally. We manage seed, venture and growth funds, allowing ourselves to invest from $250,000 to $30 million in the early institutional rounds of high growth companies. Partech has a unique 35+ year track record assisting its portfolio companies to become global market leaders. To learn more go to www.partechpartners.com.
Seed Investor
2010
2021 IPO on NYSE under ticker symbol: CPNG. One of the largest online retailers in Asia. Amazon of Korea.
Early Stage Investor
2017
Leading mobile banking platform for Korea
Seed Investor
2017
Smartphone-enabled consumer financing solutions.
PayJoy provides credit to customers in emerging markets.
Raised $436,150,000.00 from Citi and Lendable.
Seed Investor
2012
Leading fraud protection platform for ecommerce
Signifyd is a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
Raised $409,000,000.00 from CPP Investments, FIS, Owl Rock Capital and Neuberger Berman.
Seed Investor
2016
Leading cross border payment service for Pan Africa region
Barter is a app which Manage your finances.
Seed Investor
2024
Brazilian digital banking platform designed for young creators and Generation Z.
Seed Investor
2024
Brazilian fintech company that provides salary advance services and financial education to employees.
Education
B.S.
1992 - 1996