Christopher Tsai

In 2014, Tsai launched Tsai Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tsai Capital. CrowdTangle, a Tsai Ventures portfolio company, was acquired by Facebook on Nov. 11, 2016. Founded in 2012, CrowdTangle had raised $2.2 million in venture funding from Tsai Ventures and other venture capital firms.

Prior to deciding to build a collection around Ai, Tsai collected contemporary Chinese art broadly, beginning in 2003. Tsai traveled to China and acquired some 50 works by artists including Fang Lijun, Liu Xiaodong, Xie Nanxing, Zhang Huan and Zhang Xiaogang. In September 2004, Tsai published an article in Worth Magazine arguing that contemporary Chinese art was undervalued. In 2005, Tsai reiterated that contemporary Chinese art was undervalued, particularly when compared with contemporary Mexican artists.

He launched Tsai Capital in 1997 after working as an equity analyst for Bear Stearns and interning for value investors Mario Gabelli and John A. Levin. Tsai credits Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor and Philip Arthur Fisher's Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits as two of his influences. His investment approach was also influenced by Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway.

Tsai is President and Chief Investment Officer of Tsai Capital Corporation, an SEC-registered, value-oriented investment firm headquartered in New York City. He founded the company in 1997 at the age of 22 and serves as Chairperson of the firm's Advisory Committee Tsai has written articles about art as an investment, including commentary in Investment and Pensions Europe "about investing in art as an alternative assets class", and "Back Door to China," specifically advocating investment in Chinese contemporary art, for Worth. Bloomberg, L.P. notes that he "has also been interviewed on Bloomberg Radio, China Money Network, Fox Business, [and] The Street.com TV", and "has written extensively about investing in emerging markets".

Born in Greenwich, Connecticut to billionaire financier and fund manager Gerald Tsai, and model and actress Marlyn C. Tsai, Tsai attended Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut and graduated in 1993. Tsai began his career in finance at the young age of 11, working for his father, where he was tasked with analyzing investment opportunities for the Tsai family foundation. At age 16, Tsai took a course at New York Institute of Finance on securities analysis.

Christopher Tsai (born December 20, 1974) is a Chinese-American investor, philanthropist and noted art collector. He is the founder of Tsai Capital Corporation, a New York-based investment management firm.

In addition to Tsai being the son of a famous investor, his grandmother, Ruth Tsai, was a pioneer for women in Shanghai. During World War II, she was the only woman to trade on the floor of the Shanghai Stock Exchange until Japanese troops occupied the Shanghai International Settlement on December 8, 1941 and trading was abruptly halted. Tsai is married to André Stockamp.