Jo Tango

Jo Tango is part-time at Harvard Business School and teaches the "Venture Capital & Private Equity" course. He founded Kepha Partners, an early-stage VC firm, and has been in venture capital since 1998.

VC experience: A founding or first institutional investor in Azuki Systems (Ericsson), Carbon Black (NASDAQ: CBLK; sale to VMware), ExaGrid, Goby (NAVTEQ), Mavrck, 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).

Education: Yale College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar).

Current and prior volunteer work: Harvard Business School Alumni Board (Executive Committee, Lifelong Learning Working Group Co-Chair, Nominations Committee), Harvard Business School class reunions (Co-Chair of 5th, 10th, 15th and 25th), The Roxbury Latin School (Trustee, Parents' Fund Chair, Development Committee Co-Chair), New England Venture Capital Association (Board), NECINA (Board), Boston Archdiocese Clergy Retirement Trust (Investment Committee).

Personal: Jo and his family emigrated from Indonesia with a few suitcases and $1,500. His personal blog is here. Details on his family's angel program to "leverage capitalism for altruism" are here.

Cases and Teaching Materials

• Tango, Jo. "NextView Ventures." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 821-078, January 2021. View Details
• Tango, Jo, and Nori Gerardo Lietz. "NextView Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 821-031, August 2020. View Details