Investment Management Team

Chris Yeh

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Age 44, is an equity holder, member of the Board of Managers, and Co-Chief Chief Investment Officer of the Manager.. He is also the co-founder and General Partner of Wasabi Ventures LLC. Chris has founded, advised, or invested in over 200 high-tech startups since 1995, including 9-figure companies like Ustream (investor, advisor, CEO), UserTesting.com (advisor), and Gusto (investor). He is the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman, of "Blitzscaling: The Lighting-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies", and the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, of the New York Times bestseller, "The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age". Chris earned two degrees from Stanford University, with distinction in both, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.

Tom "TK" Kuegler

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Age 47, is an equity holder, member of the Board of Managers, and Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Manager. He is also co-founder and general partner of Wasabi Venture LLC. Wasabi Ventures is a venture capital, incubator, and consulting firm that specializes in building and advising early stage technology companies. In the last ten years, Wasabi Ventures has built, financed, and advised over 200 start-ups. In his 25 years of start-up activity, he has been a part of over 1,500 rounds of financing as an investor, founder, or adviser. He is also the author of Web Advertising and Marketing and dozens of articles about start-ups and software, as well as a frequent lecturer. He is a former member of the Board of Sponsors of Sellinger School of Business at Loyola University Maryland. He earned a BS in Economics from Loyola in 1994.