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
Understanding The Vertical SaaS Product Stack
If you’re thinking about launching a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, there are two different ways to approach the market. Horizontal SaaS: These companies aim to create a product that services a...
Founder Interview: Amanda Szabo, founder and CEO, ResortPass
Building a successful business is hardly as fun as a day at the pool, though for Amanda Szabo, that’s how hers got started. The founder and CEO of Santa Monica’s...
Founder Interview: Guillermo Gette, co-founder and CEO, Workast
Babies have played a pivotal role in the life and career of Workast co-founder and CEO Guillermo Gette. It was his parents’ baby-product store back home in Buenos Aires, Argentina,...
Founder Interview: Daniel Kim & Jay Lee, AuditBoard
If they weren’t busy running L.A.-based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. The company’s co-founders grew up playing basketball together in Cerritos,...
Founder Interview: Gaurav Bhattacharya. Co-founder and CEO, InvolveSoft
Gaurav Bhattacharya acknowledges he didn’t make the best impression on his co-founder, Saumya Bhatnagar, when they met in a high school coding class in New Delhi. Out of 160 students,...
Founder Interview: Susanne Mitschke, co-founder and CEO, MindMate
Santa Monica-based MindMate has come a long way since launching in co-founder Susanne Mitschke’s two-bedroom Glasgow apartment in early 2015. Less than four years later, the popular healthy living...