Partner
Jo Tango
Partner, Kepha Partners
- Firm
- Kepha Partners
- Title
- Partner
- Role
- Partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 21 September 2026
About
Jo Tango founded Kepha Partners and has been in VC since 1998. VC experience: An investor in three Unicorns. A founding or first institutional investor in Azuki Systems (Ericsson), Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK; sale to VMware), ExaGrid (Lead Edge Capital), Goby (NAVTEQ), Later.com (partial sale to Summit Partners), Paradigm4, StreamBase Systems (TIBCO), Vertica Systems (Hewlett-Packard), Virtual Iron (Oracle) and VoltDB; other investments include Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ: ASKJ), Digital Market (Agile Software), and NextCard (NASDAQ: NXCD). Previously, at Highland Capital Partners (General Partner). Other: Bain & Company (case team leader), Wasserstein Perella (M&A), Bain Capital (private equity), Salomon Brothers (equity research).
Background
- Education
- Yale College ( summa cum laude , Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar).Source (opens in a new tab)
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