Khai Ha
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- Full Name
- Khai Ha
- Title
- Partner / Managing Partner & Investment Committee Member
- Firm
- GPI Capital LP
- Firm Type
- Independent asset-management / private investment firm (growth & structured equity) — *not a personal angel vehicle; the stub "Angel Investors" label could not be verified and appears inconsistent with GPI's institutional, late-stage strategy*
- Investment Stage
- Late-stage growth / mature companies (non-control minority equity), both private and public
- Check Size
- ~US$50 million to US$200 million per deal (firm strategy)
- Target Company Profile
- Category-leading, late-stage growth or mature businesses seeking minority capital with downside protection; GPI typically leads deals and takes board seats
- Sector Focus
- Technology, consumer, and industrial
- Geographic Focus
- Primarily North America
- Location
- New York, NY (1345 Avenue of the Americas, 32nd Floor, New York, NY 10105)
Background
Khai Ha is a Partner of GPI Capital and a member of its Investment Committee. GPI Capital is a New York–based independent asset manager (roughly $768 million in AUM per its March 2024 Form ADV) that pursues a "growth equity with downside protection" strategy — leading minority, non-control equity or equity-like structured investments of about $50–200 million in late-stage growth and mature companies across technology, consumer, and industrial markets. GPI's partners have operated together for two decades and deployed over $5 billion of capital.
Ha brings more than 16 years of investment-management and banking experience. Before GPI, he was a Managing Director at BTG Pactual's Global Partnership Investing (the predecessor fund to GPI's strategy), and earlier led non-control investments at the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan's relationship-investing group. He also held roles at the investment firms Moore Capital Management and Epic Capital. He began his career in mergers & acquisitions and investment banking at Merrill Lynch (Pierce, Fenner & Smith) and BMO.
Ha holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto and is a CFA charterholder. He has served on the boards of several GPI portfolio companies, including LegalZoom (independent director, 2018–2022), Postmates, and Hopper.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Stage & structure: Leads minority, non-control growth and structured equity (or equity-like) investments — explicitly "growth equity with downside protection," rather than seed or early-stage angel checks.
- Check size: Approximately US$50 million–US$200 million per transaction.
- Sectors: Technology, consumer, and industrial businesses.
- Geography: Primarily North America.
- Value-add posture: GPI leads its deals, obtains board seats, and works with founders, families, boards, and management on strategic, operating, and financial plans to drive shareholder value — providing "customized capital solutions" for transformational growth, M&A, and liquidity initiatives.
- In his own words (on the Pharmapacks deal): "Andrew and team have built a premier integrated ecommerce enablement platform with deep brand, merchandising, logistics and marketplace expertise."
Notable Investments
- Hopper — Led a $175 million growth-equity investment in the travel-booking/price-prediction app (Series G, August 2021); Ha tied to the board relationship.
- Postmates — Invested in the food-delivery company in Fall 2019; exited when Uber acquired Postmates for $2.65 billion in December 2020, roughly 15 months after GPI's investment.
- LegalZoom — Online legal-services provider; Ha served as an independent director from 2018 to 2022. The company IPO'd in June 2021 at $28/share (~$5B+ valuation).
- Pharmapacks — GPI Capital and JPMorgan Chase Bank provided up to $100 million in growth financing to the ecommerce enablement platform (announced January 2025); Ha commented publicly on the deal.
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