Gabby Choi

Founder + CEO @ Velvet Hammer | Investor | Advisor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
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Operating Advisor & Investor
2019
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
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2025
Founder & CEO
Sep 2025
Building a romantasy and romance lifestyle brand for obsessive readers like us. Where fantasy meets function, and the reading ritual becomes its own kind of magic.
2023
Managing Partner
Sep 2023
At 78Cricket Lane, our mission is to acquire and partner with best-in-class companies. We are hands-on operating partners with an approach rooted in community, talent development, and sustainable growth strategies. We believe in the power of people and ideas to transform businesses when given the right environment, resources and support systems. Our ethos: 1. We leverage a scrappy startup mindset to identify investment opportunities and test growth initiatives across our companies. 2. Our down-to-earth yet hustling culture nurtures quality talent and a commitment to investing in their professional development. 3. We encourage community across our companies, and with our network to spur sharing, creativity, and talent retention. Get in touch and learn more: hello@78cricketlane.com
2019
Operating Advisor & Investor
2019
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
2016
Product & Global Partnerships (MBA Intern)
Jun 2016
Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.
late stageMusicians
2013
Innovation & New Ventures Strategist
2013
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