Joe Tsai
Investor
Joe manages Mucker’s Early Fund, leading Seed and Series A investments with a particular focus on software, fintech and marketplaces. Previously, Joe was a Vice President on the software investment team at Stripes, where he invested in companies including On Running (NYSE: ONON), BacklotCars (acquired by KAR), Cypress.io, Emotive, Pleo, and Sift.
Prior to Stripes, Joe was a management consultant in McKinsey’s business technology practice, where he advised Fortune 500 clients on digital strategy and transformation topics including eCommerce enablement, online customer journeys, data analytics and cloud infrastructure.
Earlier, Joe was one of the first research analysts at CB Insights, where he delved into the industry of startups and venture capital while working within what was then a ~10 person startup itself.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, Joe holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School and a BAS in Computer Science from Penn Engineering.
Joe can be reached at joe at mucker dot com.
Articles by Joe Tsai
Founder Interview: Alex Canter, Co-founder and CEO, Ordermark
If Alex Canter’s last name sounds familiar, it’s because his family owns the iconic deli of the same name that has been serving up matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches...
How to Become a Midas VC: Just The Data
By William Hsu The annual Forbes Midas list just came out. Which reminded me that I put together the following data for last years list for a blog post...
Encyclopedias are moving to the blockchain. Everipedia, joined by Wikipedia’s co-founder, is leading the charge.
Mucker portfolio company Everipedia, the “encyclopedia of everything,” announced today that it is creating the world’s first encyclopedia on the blockchain, and that Wikipedia co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger has joined...
5 Lessons for Startups from Edison’s Invention of the Phonograph
by Erik Rannala Real innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, a lesson that the famed inventor Thomas Edison understood better than most. Throughout his life, Edison revealed that great ideas...
5 Tactics for Improving Startup Culture
Guest post by Gaurav Bhattacharya, CEO and co-founder at Involve. “Culture” is a set of norms and beliefs commonly shared by a group of people that give them a sense...
Mucker Academy: Pricing Models for the Enterprise with Jim Howard
In this episode of Mucker Academy, cloud software executive Jim Howard sits down with the MuckerLab accelerator to share his 15+ years of experience in developing and selling products and...