Jai Choi

Jai Choi serves as the Company's Business Development and Partnerships Advisor who is entrusted with helping with Samesurf’s partner origination efforts. He is a founder of Tekton Ventures, a seed stage venture fund focused on helping founders build and grow their early stage companies. Jai has spent most of his career as a serial entrepreneur and early stage investor. He is currently a seed and early stage investor in 30+ companies including Coupang, Attune, Plae, Memebox, Cotopaxi, BitVault, The Orange Chef, Chute, Sidecar, EatClub, Gem, Betable, Signifyd, HotHouse/Stitch, Bugcrowd, PriceMatch, TouchofModern, HeartThis, Younity, Sensopia, UserVoice, GreenCar. He is an accelerator mentor to Mucker Labs, Draper University, SparkLabs and KStartup.

Jai was a founder of PeerPong, a cloud-based semantic search company acquired by FormSpring.me in early 2011. He is also a venture partner with Partech Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco and Paris. Jai joined Partech in late 2006 to focus on Internet, Software and Mobile.

Prior to Partech, he 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 major Asia-based technology companies on new growth platforms, new business formation, joint venture, and M&A. He 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). He started his career in management consulting at PA Consulting Group, focused on market-related and operational issues for major telecom and energy companies. Jai is an advisor to a number of other start-ups including Rivet & Sway and Scoop.it as well as a mentor to accelerator companies Mucker Labs and SparkLabs.