Jo Tango

Jo Tango founded Kepha Partners and has been in VC since 1998.

VC experience: A founding or first institutional investor in Azuki Systems (Ericsson), Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK; sale to VMware), ExaGrid, Goby (NAVTEQ), Mavrck, Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems (TIBCO), Vertica Systems (Hewlett-Packard), Virtual Iron (Oracle) and Volt Active Data; other investments include Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ: ASKJ), Digital Market (Agile Software), and NextCard (NASDAQ: NXCD). Previously, at Highland Capital Partners (General Partner).

Other: Bain & Company (case team leader), Wasserstein Perella (M&A), Bain Capital (private equity), Salomon Brothers (equity research).

Jo and his family emigrated from Indonesia with a few suitcases and $1,500. His personal blog is here. Details on his family’s angel program to “leverage capitalism for altruism” are here.