Jackie Chen

Principal

2022

Investor

2022 - 2023

Founded by Adeyemi Ajao and TJ Nahigian, Base10 is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund ($2B+) investing in founders who believe purpose is key profits and companies that are automating sectors of the Real Economy, including transportation, healthcare, retail, logistics, and construction. The Advancement Initiative, Base10’s growth-stage fund, donates 50% of profits to Historically Black Colleges and Universities to support financial aid and other key initiatives. Portcos include Reddit, Notion, Figma, Plaid, Nubank, Contentful, Buk, Nowports, Motive, Popmenu

Investor / Board

2024

Lead Investor. Ramp for Brazilian SMEs.

Investor / Board

2023

Lead investor. Rippling for Latin America

Investor & LP

2022

Founders, investors, and operators investing in the next generation of Asian-American founders Investments: - Workstream - Sanzo - Beacons.ai

Investor

2020

Tools for software builders (devs, PMs, sys. admins, devOps) on Atlassian, NOW, Salesforce, PowerBI, Monday.com. Sourced when <$10M ARR and bootstrapped, sourced and integrated subsequent 20+ transformative acquisitions. Marked up by TA Associates in ~9 months. Over $200m ARR today

Investor

2020

Bangladesh's super app

Investor

2022

Sourced and led Series B. ESG data platform for fashion retailers, brands, manufacturers and consumers

Growth Equity Investor

2019 - 2022

$3.3B growth equity / private equity firm - first check into Webflow, ActiveCampaign, Appfire, impact.com, DistroKid, PDFTron, Gearset, Constructor.io and Lifestance, just to name a few. Sourced and led technology growth investments.

Co-Founder CEO

2019 - 2019

Wanted to improve intern experiences for both interns and managers. Built onboarding and mgmt SaaS platform for interns. Sold into career centers, universities, hospitals & breweries around the US

Private Equity Investor

2018 - 2018

£50B European PE firm. Tech & Healthcare Buyout