JC

Jackie Chen

Principal at Base10 Partners

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2025

  • Investor

    2025

2024

  • Investor / Board

    2024

    Led series B

  • 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

2024

  • Investor / Board

    2024

    Led series B. Operating system for boutique fitness studios

  • Investor / Board

    2024

    Led series B. Ramp for Brazilian SMEs.

2023

  • Investor / Board

    2023

    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

2020

  • Investor

    2020

    IT service management (ITSM) and collaboration tool provider, offering applications that enhance and extend functionalities within platforms like Atlassian. 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

2020

  • Investor

    2020

    Bangladesh's super app

2022

  • Investor

    2022

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