JC

Jonathan Choi

Partner at Buckley Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Jonathan Choi is a Partner at Buckley Ventures, with a background that includes roles at Meta (formerly Facebook) and NASA, showcasing a trajectory from technical roles to leadership positions in the venture capital industry. With experience at top tech companies and a diverse skill set in areas like machine learning and data analysis, Choi now focuses on investing in a range of sectors, including Material Science, AI, and SaaS, demonstrating a strong commitment to supporting diverse founders and innovative technologies.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2021 - Current

    Lead fund investments across defense, hardware, machine learning, manufacturing. Buckley Ventures is a venture capital firm that makes concentrated investments in early-stage technology companies. The firm has over $1.5 billion in assets under management.

Buckley Ventures is a venture capital firm.

  • AI Research

    2019 - 2019

    Conducted research in collaboration with Google on the topics of fairness, federated learning and differential privacy.

South Park Commons is a fund and community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2017 - 2017

    Training video models for gesture recognition. Acq. by Standard AI

  • Research Associate, Small Satellite Avionics

    2016 - 2016

    Helmholtz cage, Low Earth Orbit testbed for attitude determination.

  • Technical Program Manager

    2015 - 2015

    Data centers and networking, infrastructure reliability. Selected among the Top 5% of hiring class.

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

  • Software Engineer

    2014 - 2014

    Backend infrastructure. Acq. by Blackstone $750M+

Vungle transforms how people discover and experience apps that delivers the highest value users through engaging video ads.

Raised $25,500,000.00 from Seven Peaks Ventures, AngelPad, Crosslink Capital, Google Ventures, Aol Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Thomvest Ventures and Uncork Capital.

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