YB Choi is a Partner at Cercano Management LLC where he is the Head of Venture Capital and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Prior to Cercano, he began venture investing in 2008 as a member of the VC team at Vulcan Capital. YB led investments in and managed oversight of 50+ portfolio companies across a broad spectrum of industry verticals including AI Reverie (acquired by Meta), Ally (acquired by Microsoft), BlackSky (BKSY), Pointy (acquired by Google), and Remitly (RELY).

YB joined Vulcan from Microsoft, where he was a Manager in IP Acquisitions and Investments and began his career in investment banking at Oppenheimer & Co. in the mergers & acquisitions group and Cowen & Co. in healthcare investment banking.

YB received a B.S. in Engineering and Management Systems from Columbia University.