COMEUP 2020

MEET
THE
FUTURE
LED BY STARTUPS

19-21, NOVEMBER 2020

COMEUP 2020

MEET THE FUTURE
LED BY STARTUP

COMEUP 2020 in Numbers

SESSIONS 12 +

PROGRAMS 60 +

SPEAKERS 110 +

COMEUP STARS 120 +

Meet our Speakers

Kurly

Sophie Kim

CEO

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Kurly

Republic of Korea

Sophie Kim majored in politics at Wellesley College from 2003 to 2007. She started her career at Goldman Sachs from 2007 to 2010. Since then, she has served on McKinsey & Company, Temasek Holdings, and Bain & Company. In 2015, she founded Kurly and launched 'Next Morning Delivery' which delivers fresh foods such as vegetables, fruits, and seafood to the front of the customer's house at dawn.
Duke University

Jung Sang Kim

Professor

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Duke University

Republic of Korea

Jungsang is enthusiastic about taking new scientific ideas to real-world use. For the past 15 years, he has focused on harnessing the power of quantum physics to realize powerful computing machines. He pioneered the research of engineering individual atoms to build quantum computers at Duke University by building collaborative research teams across academia, technology industry, and national research institutions around the world. In 2015, Jungsang co-founded IonQ with his long-time collaborator Chris Monroe to commercialize trapped ion quantum computing technology. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke University in 2004, he worked at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ for five years, working on large-scale all-optical switches for telecommunication networks and wireless communication technology for indoor applications. Jungsang received his Bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University (1992) and his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1999). At Stanford, he pioneered the development of semiconductor devices used to generate and detect single photons that are widely used in various quantum technologies today.
SM Entertainment

Chris Lee

CEO

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SM Entertainment

Republic of Korea

Chris Lee, CEO of SM Entertainment, joined the company’s A&R Division in 2005. He became Head of Producing Division in 2015, CEO of SM USA in 2019, and CEO of SM Entertainment in 2020. He shares future plans with Soo Man Lee(Head Producer/Founder) and has developed the company’s core technology CT(Culture Technology). Especially, he has cultivated the A&R system to globalize and break new grounds for future K-Pop. Chris has initiated and developed new ventures such as EDM record label SCREAM Records.
Coursera

Betty Vandenbosch

Chief Content Officer

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Coursera

United States of America

Dr. Betty Vandenbosch is Chief Content Officer at Coursera, where she oversees the company’s content and credential strategy and partner relationships. Before joining Coursera, Betty was chancellor of Purdue University Global, an institution resulting from Purdue University’s 2018 acquisition of Kaplan University. At Purdue, Betty oversaw academics for more than 32,000 students most of whom earned their degrees online. Before that, Betty held a number of leadership positions at Kaplan University and served as associate dean and associate professor at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Throughout her career, Betty has won several awards in teaching and research. She earned her PhD in Management Information Systems and MBA from Western University in Ontario, Canada.
Schneider Electric

Emmanuel Lagarrigue

Chief Innovation Officer

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Schneider Electric

France

Emmanuel Lagarrigue is the Chief Innovation Officer of Schneider Electric and a member of its Global Executive Committee. His mission is to create new profitable growth platforms for the company and to drive a culture of open and collaborative innovation. He has the direct responsibility of Schneider Electric’s Corporate Ventures, Electromobility, Solar Power, and China Energy Transition Hub units. He is also directly involved in the creation of new joint ventures with other large institutions across the world. Emmanuel was previously the Chief Strategy Officer of the company. He also held multiple operational and general management positions within Schneider Electric in Europe, South America, Asia, and the United States. Emmanuel graduated from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, and from ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, France.
Singularity University

Gary A. Bolles

Chair for the Future of Work

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Singularity University

United States of America

Gary A. Bolles is an internationally-known lecturer, writer, and consultant on the future of work, learning, and the organization. His focus is on helping individuals, organizations, communities, and countries to thrive in the transition to a digital economy, and to develop actionable strategies to deal with what he calls “The Great Reset.” He is the author of nine video courses on LinkedIn Learning, with more than 330,000 students.
UC Berkeley

Henry Chesbrough

Professor

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UC Berkeley

United States of America

Henry Chesbrough is best known as “the father of Open Innovation”. He teaches at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. He is also Maire Tecnimont Professor of Open Innovation at Luiss University in Rome. He has written books such as Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), Open Business Models (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), Open Services Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2011) and Open Innovation Results (Oxford, 2020). He has been recognized as one of the leading business thinkers by Thinkers50. He received an Innovation Luminary award from the European Commission in 2014. He received the Industrial Research Institute Medal of Achievement in 2017, and has two honorary doctorates.
OECD

Lamia Kamal-Chaoui

Director

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OECD

France

Lamia Kamal-Chaoui has held several senior positions at the OECD since 1998, most notably leading work on inclusive growth and urban development. From 2012 to 2016, she served as Senior Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General. In this role, she oversaw the OECD Inclusive Growth initiative, the Knowledge-Sharing Alliance programme and the implementation of the OECD Strategy on Development. Prior to this, she was Head of the OECD Urban Programme from 2003 to 2012, where she advised national policy makers and city leaders as well as launched the OECD Roundtable for Mayors and Ministers. Earlier in her career at the OECD, she worked in several Directorates (such as Public Governance and Territorial Development; Trade; and Financial and Enterprise Affairs). Lamia Kamal-Chaoui is a French and Moroccan national. She has been a member of several International Committees and Advisory Boards as well as a Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. She holds a Master’s Degree in Macroeconomics from the University of Paris Dauphine and a Master’s Degree in Foreign Languages and History from the University of Paris Diderot.
Matterport

RJ Pittman

CEO

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Matterport

United States of America

RJ’s career spans startups, venture capital, and the biggest companies in technology. Now at the helm of Matterport RJ is redefining how we experience, engage and manage property in the real world by leading the evolution of 3D capture technology and data. Before joining Matterport, Pittman spent five years leading product, design, engineering, and brand as Chief Product Officer for eBay. Prior to eBay, he led the global e-commerce platform for Apple’s online stores, and led product innovation for Google’s next-generation consumer search properties.
BCG

Yeon Hee Kim

Senior Partner/Managing Director

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Boston Consulting Group

Republic of Korea

Yeon Hee Kim is a Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group Seoul office. She was elected to Partnership in January of 2002, and to Director in January of 2009, making her the first female partner and director in a global consulting firm in South Korea. Ms. Kim has over 29 years of consulting experience in transformation and change management, organization, and leadership design. She has extensive transformation consulting experience in the fields of consumer products, retail, banking, credit cards, and digital. She has led several multi-year large-scale transformation projects. Ms. Kim is a frequently-featured columnist and advisor in the business press and in seminars, on the topics of consumer products, marketing, talent management, and growth strategy. Prior to joining Bain, she worked as a consultant for Anderson Consulting. She holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree from the Seoul National University Business School.
Noom

Sae Ju Jung

CEO

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Noom

Republic of Korea

Sae Ju Jeong is the CEO and co-founder of Noom, a pioneering behavior change startup disrupting the weight loss and healthcare industries. A serial entrepreneur from the age of 19, Sae Ju has always had an intense desire to help people. He was raised in a family of doctors in South Korea and started Noom with the mission of helping people everywhere live healthier lives. That mission has never changed. Noom is a pioneering behavior change startup disrupting the weight loss and healthcare industries. Noom leverages the latest innovations in science and technology to help people change their habits and live healthier lives. Noom has grown more than 100X within the four years and reported revenue in 2019 of $237M and supporting over 2.5M users in 2019. Noom, Inc. is backed by Sequoia Capital, RRE, Samsung, and Translink Capital.
OnePredict

Byeng Dong Youn

CEO

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OnePredict

Republic of Korea

Byeng Dong Youn is the CEO of OnePredict and Professor of SNU Mechanical Engineering. Over the past 5 years, he has won 9 awards at global data challenges using Industrial AI technology, industrial data, domain knowledge he and his lab has accumulated. He is leading the digitalized technology with services such as GuardiOne, a Digital Twin product which predicts and manages the integrity of industrial facilities. Recently, Byeng Dong has commercialized power plant turbines, substation transformers/circuit breakers, wind power generators, industrial robots/motors and more. OnePredict has attracted an investment of 20 billion won within 3 years of its founding. Following its success, OnePredict has been named “Future Unicorn” by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
Seegene

Jong Yoon Chun

CEO/Founder

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Seegene

Republic of Korea

Chun Jong Yoon, Ph.D., is the chief executive and founder of molecular diagnosis company, Seegene, Inc, since 2000. Even before the first COVID-19 patient was reported in South Korea, Dr. Chun and his team began developing a diagnostic kit for the virus, allowing Seegene to lead the molecular diagnostics market with multiplex RT-PCR technology. Dr. Chun and Seegene’s proactive decision to churn out COVID-19 test kit with the capability of rapid assay development has allowed many countries around the world to expand testing capacity in the era of COVID-19 pandemic. Seegene has received an emergency use approval from U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April and have since exported to 70 countries. Before Seegene, Dr. Chun served as a professor at Ewha Womans University Dept. of Life Science. Prior to this, Dr. Chun had received a doctorate from the University of Tennessee, completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and UC Berkeley.
Bear Robotics

John Ha

Founder/CEO

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Bear Robotics

Republic of Korea

John Ha is the Founder and CEO of Bear Robotics, Inc. John ran a Korean restaurant in Silicon Valley where he felt the need of innovation in the hospitality industry. From John’s hands-on restaurant experience, Bear Robotics is creating AI robotic products to innovate the way food services are operated. Prior to this role, John was a Technical Lead at Google and Adjunct Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.
Tech in Asia

Andrew Baisley

Managing Director

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Tech in Asia

Singapore

As Managing Director of Tech in Asia Studios, Andrew helps global brands connect with startups, entrepreneurs and investors across Asia. He leads a regional team focused on multi-media content production, sales, account management and strategy. Prior to joining Tech in Asia, Andrew spent more than 5 years at Facebook helping to build out the company's global data partnerships business, growing these channel partnerships from $10 million to more than $4 billion in ARR. Originally from New York City, Andrew spent his earlier career in a number of video and AdTech startups, focusing on product management before shifting into business development and partnerships roles.
UNEP

Mushtaq Ahmed Memon

Regional Coordinator

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United Nations Envrionment Programme

Thailand

Dr. Memon is working with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as a Regional Coordinator for Resource Efficiency in Asia Pacific Office located in Bangkok. He is supporting resource efficiency, sustainable consumption and production, green economy, green financing, sustainable public procurement, sustainable tourism, sustainable industries and various areas for Asia and the Pacific. Dr. Memon is also Project Manager for the Regional Policy Advocacy Component of the EU-funded SWITCH-Asia Programme to promote sustainable consumption and production and uptake of SDG 12 in Asia.
Simple Project Company

Hye Won Kang

Executive Vice President/COO

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Simple Project Company

Republic of Korea

Hye Won Kang is COO and EVP of Acceleration Business Unit of Wecook, leading shared kitchen and F&B business platform provider in Korea. Before joining Wecook, Hye Won has worked as business consultant for Boston Consulting Group and IBM for 10 years, focusing on long-term vision, growth strategy, sales and marketing, operational excellence and change management serving leading retail and consumer companies in Korea, Japan, and US. She also worked as CSO for CJ Foodville, #1 restaurant chain company in Korea, and led corporate strategy and turnaround projects of US business. Leveraging her experiences from BCG, IBM and CJ, Hye Won has been helping F&B startups and students as professor and advisor. Hye Won's insights are being employed into Wecook's services and solutions.
GS

Won Cheol Kwak

Vice President

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GS

Republic of Korea

Won Cheol Kwak drives new business development activities of GS Group's Portfolio Management team, largely through startup investments and open innovation programs. Before joining GS, he worked for French industrial giant Schneider Electric, as Strategy Director of Cloud & Telco Segment and Strategic Intelligence Director of Global Strategy team etc., living through 10 years' journey of the 180-year-old European multinational transfroming to global leader of Digital Energy. His previous positions include APAC Go-to-Market Program Leader of Oracle Corp., Technology leader of Overseas Biz. division of a Korean carrier, CTO of a startup developing business simulation software and more.
SNU

Kyung Min Kim

Professor

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Seoul National University

Republic of Korea

Kyung Min Kim is a professor at Dept of Urban Planning at Seoul National University. His primary research includes global real estate market analysis, housing and office price forecasting using machine learning technologies, and public-private development (more specifically, affordable housing development). Kyung Min is also an external advisor and counsel for real estate financial and development companies such as the National Pension Service of Korea, FIDES Development, 00Ground, etc. Also active in the social innovation field, Kim was named chairman of the Social Innovation Committee under the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and Safety in 2017. Kyung Min received his BA from Seoul National University, his Master’s degree from UC Berkeley and Doctoral degree from Harvard University.
DSC Investment

Yo Han Kim

Executive Director

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DSC Investment

Republic of Korea

Yo Han Kim, Executive Director of DSC Investment, has invested in global/domestic bio ventures since 2013. He is currently in charge of the Bio Investment Team at DSC Investment. His portfolio includes ABLBio, Genome & Co, SCM Life Science, Cell Lead and much more. He is also showing great results in overseas investment. Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, Adicet Bio are companies that are preparing for an IPO or have already gone public. He has much experience in co-investing with noted venture firms such as Orbimed, Novartis Venture Fund, etc. Yo Han has invested approximately 100 billion won in 45 companies with a double amount of return earnings. Among his portfolio, 10 companies are listed on KOSDAQ and 3 more companies are preparing for an IPO. He is a leading investor in the domestic bio venture sector with many companies seeking his guidance on establishing milestone, assessment of technology and more. He got his BS/BS at Seoul National University College of Pharmacy and started his career at Hanmi Pharmaceutical Medicine Research Team. He started his adventure in bio investment at IMM Investment.
KT Investment

Jin Soo Kim

Director

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KT Investment

Republic of Korea

Jin Soo Kim, Director of KT Investment, has over 10 years of experience in new venture(cloud service, energy, healthcare) at Future Strategy/New Venture Development Department of KT. After that, he has invested in 20 companies for 5 years at KT Investment. His investment especially focuses on the AI, self-driving and mobile sector.
Seoul Wise Hospital

Chi Weon Kim

CEO

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Seoul Wise Hospital

Republic of Korea

Chiweon Kim is a physician and a healthcare strategist based in South Korea. Chiweon Kim obtained his medical degree at Seoul National University and his MPH at School of Public health at Yonsei Uniersity. He completed his residency in the Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul National University Hospital. After residency, he worked at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant and at Samsung Medical Center as a strategy specialist before starting his own hospital. In addition to running his hospital and taking care of patients, Doctor Kim is interested in digital healthcare and works as a columnist and a speaker. He is a founder and partner of Digital Healthcare Partners, a digital healthcare accelerator. He also advises and works with start-ups in digital healthcare field.
EO Studio

Tae Yong Kim

CEO

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EO Studio

Republic of Korea

Tae Yong Kim runs EO, Korea’s number one media on entrepreneurship and startups. The company started as a one man business and reached 5 million views with an interview on FAANG(a Silicon Valley startup). The Channel usually interviews Korean startup founders but its recent interviews include Silicon Valley based Notion and South East Asian startups. With these movements EO is developing into an Asian based startup media platform.
VoyagerX

Se Dong Nam

Founder/CEO

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VoyagerX

Republic of Korea

Se Dong Nam, CEO of VoyagerX, launched the beloved South Korean internet community SayClub while he was working as an Intern Developer at NeoWiz. He led the Planning Team and Development Team at Chutnoon, a search engine which was acquired by Naver. At Naver, he was in charge of the Web Crawler Team. He led the Service Department at Line Co. and made one of the world’s most famous selfie camera applications, B612. He has a deep understanding in development, planning and design. He founded Deep Learning startup VoyagerX in 2017. VoyagerX offers services such as Vrew(AI based Video Editor), vFlat(AI based Mobile Scanner), Ownglyph(AI based Handwriting Font Creator), etc.
GS HomeShopping

Young Hoon park

Executive Vice President

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GS HomeShopping

Republic of Korea

Young Hoon Park is leading investment and new business development at GS Shop, a Korean retail company, part of GS Group. He is managing 300M USD AUM with more than 600 portfolios, mobile tech, data analytics, AI and digital marketing, synthetic bioiology, blockchain and fin tech. These days he is focusing to build an eco-system with partners to design and drive digital transformation of the company in core businesses.
Byline Network

Ji Yong Um

Reporter

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Byline Network

Republic of Korea

Ji Yong Um is a reporter for Byline Network, a media platform that specializes in IT. He majored in Global Logistics at Inha University and went on to work at CLO, a media platform that specializes in logistics and supply chain management. At CLO, he covered the logistics ecosystem as Contents Team Leader. Currently at Byline Network, Ji Yong reports stories on how technology solves pain points of the logistics/distribution network. He has advised companies such as LG Electronics, SK Innovation, Korea Post, Korea Labor Institute, Busan Development Institute on logistics and e-commerce issues. He also has lectured at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Incheon Center for Creative Economy & Innovation, Foundation of Korea Logistics Industry Promotion, Korea Integrated Logistics Association, Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation, Donga University, Inha University, Incheon University and many more.
heyJoyce

Na Ree Lee

CEO

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heyJoyce

Republic of Korea

Na Ree is the founder of ‘Hey Joyce’, a problem-solving platform for women’s career. Prior to this, she led investment and new business development at Cheil Worldwide, a marketing solution company of Samsung. She also created and operated D.CAMP, the first and largest startup ecosystem hub in Korea. Before the establishment of D.CAMP, she worked as a journalist for 20 years, including work experience as an editorial board member at JoongAng Ilbo, and wiring 7 books including . She also served as a member of the National 4IR Committee.
Weave

Songyi Lee

Partner

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Weave

Republic of Korea

Songyi is founder of Weave, a collective that is building innovative solutions through self-management and new economy principles. She is also a partner at Impact Collective, a fully digital community-driven investment and accelerator program in Asia Pacific. In 2014 she co-founded 37Coins, one of the first Silicon Valley blockchain startups to bank the unbanked using Bitcoin on decentralized SMS networks, and was later Chief Strategy Officer at Metadium, a digital identity company in Korea. Songyi is passionate about building a globally collaborative economy with purpose-driven entrepreneurs and emerging technologies.
SNU

Jae Yeol Lee

Professor

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Seoul National University

Republic of Korea

Jae Yeol Lee, Professor of Seoul National University, is a sociologist who is searching for solutions that will solve current issues of Korean society. He defines the fundamental problem of Korean society as ‘absence of dignity.’ He claims that dignity must be upgraded in order for a brighter future. His works include 『If You Were Born Again, Would You Live in Korea』 and 『Economic Sociology』. He is co-author of 『Connect Power』, 『Social Values and Social Innovation』, 『Beyond a Sick Society』, 『Are you a Middle-Class』, 『Social Economy and Social Value』, 『Asia Understands』, 『Sewol ferry asks and Social Science answers』, 『The Road to becoming a Corporate Citizen』, etc. Jae Yeol sees sociological imagination as the shortcut to a brighter future. He is the director of Korea Social Science Data Archive, an institute that aims to enhance the publicness of Korean society by sharing social science data.
TBT

Jung Wook Lim

Managing Partner

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TBT

Republic of Korea

Jung Wook Lim is the managing partner of TBT, venture capital which focuses on early stage startup investment. Prior to joining TBT, he worked as a managing director of Startup Alliance Korea, a non-profit organization founded in 2013 to foster Korean startup ecosystem by connecting entrepreneurs, startups, tech companies, and the government. He also served as a committee member of Presidential Committee on the 4th Industrial Revolution (2018) and board director of SBA(Seoul Business Agency 2016-2018). Jungwook spent time working in Silicon Valley and Boston where he was the head of global business for Daum and the CEO of Lycos Inc. Jungwook holds an MBA degree from the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and earned a B.A. in Business Administration from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Riiid

Young Jun Jang

CEO

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Riiid

Republic of Korea

Young Jun Jang is co-founder and CEO of Riiid, a leading AI-driven EdTech start-up based in Korea. He co-founded the firm in 2014 to deliver creative disruption to the education market through cutting-edge AI technology. At Riiid, Jang manages corporate direction and overall strategy, leading investor communications to share the firm’s vision and business strategy. In 2017, Riiid launched Santa, a mobile test prep application for the popular English proficiency exam, TOEIC. Quickly embraced by more than one million students, Santa almost overnight reached No. 1 in sales among education apps in Japan and Korea. Jang graduated from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
FuturePlay

Ye Sol Jeong

Investment Specialist

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FuturePlay

Republic of Korea

Before joining FuturePlay, Ye Sol was the co-founder and CEO of Naksso Inc., developing a mobile application STATYOU that auto-logs and visualizes individual time usage to find behavior patterns to help improve one's productivity. Prior to the founding of Naksso, Ye Sol was the co-founder and head of HAN International, which was a joint venture with Xi'an Jiaotong University and CIIC. As a part of HAN International, she designed and led the HAN International Summer Semester program, the first international semester program in western China. In particular, Ye Sol was responsible for establishing business strategies and recruiting renowned scholars from top global universities such as Yale University, Columbia University, UPenn and more.
Korea Startup Forum

Sung Jin Choi

Executive Director

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Korea Startup Forum

Republic of Korea

Sung Jin Choi is the Executive Director of Korea Startup Forum, Korea’s largest startup organization with nearly 1,500 member startups. He previously worked at Daum Communication, Korea Internet Corporations Association, National 4IR Committee, and more. He is taking a role in forming an innovative IT/startup ecosystem.
DHP

Yoon Sup Choi

CEO

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Digital Healthcare Partners

Republic of Korea

Yoon Sup Choi is an interdisciplinary life scientist, medical futurist, entrepreneur, investor, and evangelist in digital healthcare. He is the one who introduced digital healthcare sector to South Korea through vigorous researches, writings, and lectures. He majored in both computer science and life science at POSTECH, and earned a Ph.D. in computational biology at POSTECH. He was a visiting researcher at Stanford University and a research professor at Cancer Research Center of Seoul National University College of Medicine. He published over 10 research papers in top scientific journals including 『Science』. He is a co-founder and managing partner of Digital Healthcare Partners, which is the only startup accelerator, dedicated to digital healthcare in South Korea. He has invested in 15+ digital healthcare startups, including VUNO (medical AI), 3billion (genomics), MediHere (telemedicine), Mabo (meditation), Dr.Diary (diabetes). Also, he is an author of best-selling books, 『Healthcare Innovation (2014)』, 『Medical AI (2018)』, 『Digital Healthcare: the Future of Medicine (2020)』.
Korea Startup Forum

Josh Choi

Director

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Korea Startup Forum

Republic of Korea

Josh Choi is Director of Business Development at Korea Startup Forum, Korea’s largest startup organization with nearly 1,500 member startups. He previously worked at Daum Communications Marketing Department, United Nations ICT agency (ITU), Iconloop, and more. Through various activities, he is establishing IT-based global networks and partnerships.
Lounge Lab

Sung Jae Hwang

CEO

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Lounge Lab

Republic of Korea

Sung Jae Hwang(Dr.) is a serial entrepreneur, investor and inventor. He is the founder of LOUNGE LAB, a retail-tech startup that innovates the offline industry by using cutting-edge technologies such as robotics and AI. Prior to this company, he founded several startups. He was a co-founder and partner of Futureplay, a top-tier startup accelerator in South Korea. He served as Chief Product Officer at Fluenty Inc., an AI chatbot startup that was acquired by Samsung Electronics in 2017. He was a co-founder and a main inventor at Pium Labs Inc., a Newyork based IoT startup that is innovating a scent diffuser. He has published more than 30 papers and field more than 300 patents that introduce novel input techniques for future devices. Several of these inventions have been transferred to top global companies, non-practicing entities and startups. At present, more than 30 entities hold his patents and use them in their services and products. He has won numerous awards, including the IP Technology Award (2010), the Creative Invention Award (2011) and the IAM world's leading IP strategists 300 (2016). He is also an angel investor and an adviser to various tech start-ups.
V7

Alberto Rizzoli

CEO/Co-Founder

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V7

Italy

Alberto Rizzoli is CEO and Co-Founder of V7, an AI platform to create the sense of sight. He founded his first startup in 3D printing at age 19 becoming MakerFaire’s 20under20. At 21 he worked on AI with Simon Edwardsson, studying under Ray Kurzweil and created Aipoly, the first app to run deep neural networks on smartphones CPUs, which scanned over 3 billion images to help the blind. Today he is CEO of V7, a platform used by over 1000 teams to teach machines to recognize any object. His work on AI granted him an award and personal audience by Italian President Sergio Mattarella in 2017.
Pear Therapeutics

Alex Waldron

Chief Strategy Officer

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Pear Therapeutics

United States of America

Alex Waldron is the Chief Strategy Officer at Pear Therapeutics, a pioneer in prescription digital therapeutics, as the first company to receive market authorization for software to treat disease. As a senior level business leader with more than 25 years of experience with large pharmaceutical, fully integrated biopharmaceutical and startup organizations, Alex has a proven record of building and leading business strategy and operations. In his career, Alex has driven enterprise value from portfolio strategy through to commercial launch.
Climate Impact Capital

Alexander Rozenfeld

Managing Director

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Climate Impact Capital

United States of America

Alex Rozenfeld founded Climate Impact Capital, LLC in 2016 to help fill the market gap for early stage companies and investors seeking to make an impact on climate change. With 25 years of energy innovation experience as an entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist, Alex is leading CIC’s mission of corporate innovation collaboration to solve climate change and accelerate the energy transition. Notable roles include President at Shell Technology Ventures, LLC., and Advisory Board to the Energy Innovation Initiative at World Economic Forum. Alex holds BSE magna cum laude from Princeton University and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Woods Bagot

Amanda Stanaway

Principal

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Woods Bagot

Australia

Amanda Stanaway sits at the forefront of workplace design and has been instrumental in creating some of the most cutting edge workplaces in Australia and globally – workplaces that have delivered real business advantage and positive change for the organization. Her role as a principal at international firm Woods Bagot encompasses strategy and interior design across the commercial, lifestyle and public sectors and her diversity of knowledge and skills provides a unique, comprehensive and innovative approach to projects for her clients. Amanda also contributes to the industry through her role as a public speaker, writer and lecturer, and remains focused on promoting and evolving workplace design.
e-Estonia

Anna Piperal

Managing Director

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e-Estonia

Estonia

Anna is an e-Governance expert, e-Estonia Briefing Centre managing director, and TED speaker, who is inspiring the digital transformation of governments worldwide by sharing insights into building the most digital society in the world - e-Estonia. She has background in public administration, technology governance and marketing. Anna is leading e-Estonia branding and supporting international cooperation in the IT field and has hosted hundreds of delegations and spoke on numerous international events about an e-Estonia success story.
Hololux

Christian Glessner

CEO

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Hololux

Germany

Christian Glessner is the founder and CEO of Hololux. In an emerging digital world, Christian helps his clients to become more successful by using the latest technologies like Serverless Computing, Mixed Reality, and AI. His parents were entrepreneurs, and he grew up between IT technology and economics. As a kid, he was deeply inspired by amber, sparkling screen, and it's blinking and promising cursor of an AS/400 in his parent's office - "ready." The Tabula Rasa, or in other words, the chance of creating something entirely new from scratch is still driving his passion for information technologies. This year he was honored for the 11th time in a row for receiving the 'Microsoft MVP Award,' an Oscar-like accolade conferred by Microsoft.
Innolab Asia

Cong-Thang Huynh

CEO/Co-Founder

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Innolab Asia

Viet Nam

Cong-Thang Huynh is an entrepreneur from Vietnam who has influence startup, innovation in ASEAN especially Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and Chile. He is the Co-Founder & CEO at InnoLab Asia (the implementation partner of Open Innovation Vietnam initiative from the Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology for Open Innovation and Innovation in Vietnam and South East Asia). Over 10 years experienced, Thang is engaging and consulting actors in several industries, including start-up mentoring. With high communication and leadership skills, he is also leading young Vietnamese communities from various backgrounds: Education, IT, Innovation, Business & Marketing.
ETV

Craig Lawrence

Managing Partner

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Energy Transition Ventures

United States of America

Craig Lawrence is Managing Partner of Energy Transition Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in startups leading the energy transition. Prior to ETV, Craig served in executive, product, and marketing roles at leading solar companies SolarBridge Technologies (acquired by NASDAQ:SPWR), and SunEdison. Craig led cleantech investing at Accel Partners, a top-tier silicon-valley VC. And for a decade, Craig served as a Practice Lead at IDEO, a global design firm helping clients across multiple industries launch innovative products and services. Craig holds a B.S. in Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
danitpeleg.com

Danit Peleg

3D Fashion Designer

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danitpeleg.com

Israel

Danit Peleg is a Fashion Designer known for her 3D printed fashion work. In 2015, Danit’s 3D printed graduate collection made waves in the fashion and tech industries globally. Danit’s seminal collection includes 5 looks which were entirely 3D printed using desktop printers that can be used from home. In the summer of 2016, Danit was invited to design a 3D printed dress for the headline dancer at one of the most moving segments of the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympics Games. Danit believes that advancements in 3D printing technology could revolutionize fashion design and manufacturing processes. Among her many accolades, Danit is a TED speaker and has been featured in world-renowned publications such as Vogue, The New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily and in 2018, she was recognized as one of Europe’s Top Women in Tech by Forbes. 2019 Danit was on the list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world of BBC. Danit is a graduate of Shenkar College of Engineering and Design and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
SkyCool Systems

Eli A. Goldstein

CEO

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SkyCool Systems

United States of America

Eli received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Eli has a passion for energy systems and thermal science. He has led teams of engineers in both industrial and academic settings and previously worked with two cleantech startups. He also led thermal modeling/testing for an entry into the Gates Foundation’s Reinventing the Toilet Grand Challenge.
Techstars

James Park

Interim Managing Director

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Techstars

United States of America

With a background in investment banking and hedge funds, James specializes in strategy and fundraising in private and public capital markets, focusing on tech, retail and consumer goods industries. James co-founded Revive Kit, a Canadian health products firm, and serves on its board. James also co-founded Exalto Advisory and advised 100+ clients on government/private funding needs. Along with his current role as Interim Managing Director of the Techstars Korea Accelerator, James advises companies at Toptal, a global, exclusive network of top finance experts.
Startup Genome

JF Gauthier

CEO/Founder

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Startup Genome

Republic of Korea

JF Gauthier is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of Startup Genome. He is the world’s leading expert in innovation ecosystem development, having advised—and learned from—more than 100 governments and private-public partnerships across 40 countries. He is an angel investor and has founded five businesses across two continents and three sectors (Tech, Life Sciences and Cleantech), with two exits and one growing at scaleup stage. He previously worked in corporate innovation advising some of the largest Tech and Life Sciences corporations alongside Clayton Christensen and other thought leaders. Harvard MBA.
Plug and Play

Jupe Tan

Managing Partner

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Plug and Play

United States of America

Jupe joined Plug & Play in 2008 and started its international division in 2009. He launched its first international accelerator program which has since worked with over 800 startups from more than 30 countries. Jupe was responsible for Plug & Play’s early international expansion into Europe, Latin America and Asia. He is currently responsible for Plug & Play’s Asia Pacific operations with a focus on Southeast Asia. He manages a team of 50 across Plug & Play’s regional offices in Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok and Manila. Plug & Play APAC runs startup accelerator programs, corporate innovation activities and invests in early stage startups.
Kauffman Foundation

Philip Gaskin

Vice President

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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Republic of Korea

Philip Gaskin is the vice president of Entrepreneurship of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he is responsible for leading the Foundation’s comprehensive entrepreneurship portfolio – including grantmaking, operating programs, convening, research, and policy. Gaskin is charged with leading the team and providing vision, strategic thinking, and thought leadership to scale and deepen the impact of the Foundation’s entrepreneurship strategy.
98point6

Robbie Cape

CEO/Co-Founder

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98point6

United States of America

Robbie Cape passionately believes in the critical importance of primary care and its role in improving the quality of life for individuals, communities and the world. With that in mind, he co-founded 98point6 in 2015 to provide consumers with on-demand access to affordable, high-quality care. The evolution of digital health is paving the way for doctors to engage with patients in a new and dramatically more accessible manner. 98point6 is leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to extend the reach of physicians, allowing them more time to focus on patients while changing the economics of delivering care. Robbie’s 25-year career has centered around building consumer technology businesses and products, including Cozi Inc., which he co-founded and where he served as CEO from its inception until it was acquired by Time Inc. in 2014. Under Robbie’s leadership, Cozi became the number one brand in the family technology category, with more than 14 million family members in 150 countries. Career highlights also include 12 years at Microsoft, where he led projects such as Microsoft Money, a program that he ushered to profitability. Robbie holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Princeton University.
Deargen

Kil Soo Kang

CEO

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Deargen

Republic of Korea

Kilsoo Kang is the co-founder and CEO of DEARGEN. By taking charge of the management of DEARGEN, Kilsoo promotes cooperation between DEARGEN and many other experts in pharmaceutical and biology fields so that the biomedical data and AI technology can lead to the discovery of the fundamental treatment of diseases. Also, he is an expert in big data and a software architect who has 15 years’ experience in the IT field. Before establishing DEARGEN, he worked as a leader of big data platform development in NAVER.
AID Korea

Daniel Kyeong

CEO/Founder

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AID Korea

Republic of Korea

Daniel Kyeong is the CEO/Co-Founder of AID Korea which offers AI-based livestock healthcare solution, Farmsplan. After graduating from KAIST College of Business, he is currently doing his PhD at Seoul National University Bioinformatics Interdisclipnary Program. For many years, Daniel has acquired much big data experience in the finance, social, digital healthcare sector. His previous job experience includes Allianz Investment where he was in charge of designing investment products and bond funds sales. At Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute(ETRI), he conducted research on social data-based search engines. He went on to found Coolio, a company that developed/analyzed machine learning-based contents curation. In 2017, Daniel founded AID Korea in order to build a health livestock ecosystem and lead the domestic animal-tech industry. Currently, he was appointed as Civilian Member of Presidential Council on Intellectual Property, and the first President of Korea Animal Tech Association.
FuturePlay

O Kwon

Partner

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FuturePlay

Republic of Korea

O Kwon is a partner at FuturePlay leading the investment group. FuturePlay is a company builder based in Seoul, Korea helping and investing in cutting edge technology startups (serving more than 100 startups globally). Before joining FuturePlay, he ran sales and operations at Finomial, a Boston based fintech startup, served hundreds of fund managers and financial institutions. He started his career at Deloitte Boston and Vietnam. O is a certified public accountant and holds a business administration degree from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
MEDIHERE

Ki Hwan Kim

CEO

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MEDIHERE

Republic of Korea

Ki Hwan Kim is a Co-founder and CEO of MEDIHERE, a digital healthcare startup that provides medical concierge & telehealth membership service in the United States and South Korea. MEDIHERE was founded with a mission to connect doctors and patients effectively using IT technology to resolve the imbalance in medical information and innovate the medical industry. MEDIHERE is the first telemedicine platform in South Korea and is moving a step forward its services around New York state in the U.S. Prior to his start-up, he worked in strategic marketing, technical marketing, and brand marketing in the Global Sales & Marketing of SK Hynix. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Hanyang University.
Sendbird

John Kim

CEO

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Sendbird

Republic of Korea

John S. Kim is the Co-founder and CEO of SendBird, the world's no.1 chat API. The platform currently serves over 110M monthly chat users across the world's leading companies such as Reddit, Delivery Hero, Yahoo!, Rakuten, Paytm, Gojek, Careem, and Hinge. John is a serial entrepreneur, engineer at heart, and an expert in the API economy and messaging space. Little known fact about John is that he was Korea's no.1 pro-gamer for Unreal Tournament.
Tutoring

Mi Hee Kim

CEO/Founder

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Tutoring

Republic of Korea

Mi Hee is CEO/Founder of on-demand learning platform, Tutoring. Before founding the company, she was in charge of planning and developing mobile services at Samsung Electronics. Mi Hee has a master’s degree from KAIST Graduate School of Information & Media Management. Tutoring is a mobile service that offers live classes from foreign tutors that stand by 24/7. It provides language classes to adults and also children. With over 1,500 English and Chinese tutors and 1.3 million members, Tutoring is succeeding during the COVID-19 era. The service has been awarded “The Brand of the Year” in 2019 and 2020 from the Korean Customers Council.
Motion2AI

Byung Soo Kim

CEO

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Motion2AI

Republic of Korea

Byung Soo Kim is the CEO and a founder of Motion2AI, headquartered in Mountain View, CA. Before founding Motion2AI, he had worked for Zippy (acquired by GM Cruise), autonomous last-mile delivery robot company, and also had worked for DAQRI, AR headset company for industrial space. He covered broad topics in computer vision perception and SLAM. He earned his PhD/M.S. in computer vision from University of Michigan in 2013, and B.S. from KAIST in 2008. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford in 2013, and interned at Microsoft Research in 2013.
Hashed

Simon Kim

CEO/Managing Partner

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Hashed

Republic of Korea

Simon Kim is CEO & Partner at Hashed. He is one of the leading blockchain evangelists in Korea. Prior to Hashed, Simon was a serial entrepreneur co-founding and successfully exiting numerous companies. Most recently, Simon served as Chief Product Officer of an ed-tech startup called Knowre, named one of the World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company. Simon is also a Venture Partner at Softbank Ventures Asia and serves as Blockchain Advisor to the South Korean Parliament. Simon studied Computer Science from Pohang Science University.
3SECONDZ

Jae Woo Kim

CEO

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3SECONDZ

Republic of Korea

Jae Woo Kim is the CEO/Co-Founder of 3SECONDZ. He went on to acquire a PHD in mechanical engineering and data science at KAIST. He served as Jr. Data Scientist at UN agency, Pulse Lab. While he was a Car Racer winning many championship trophies, he witnessed the potential for innovative improvement in the motorsports industry. Historically, the automobile industry has evolved around motorsports. 3SECONDZ not only seeks innovation in the motorsports sector but also the automobile industry. With diverse experience in both the field and research, Jae Woo is developing a new norm in automatic driving using motorsports data.
Onul-Hoi

Jae Hyun Kim

CEO

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Onul-Hoi

Republic of Korea

Jae Hyun Kim is the CEO/Founder of fresh food delivery platform, Onul-Hoi. Onul-hoi co-works with citizens to establish a co-delivery system and solves issues with fresh food delivery. The company is especially expanding its business by handling extreme fresh food such as sashimi and marine products. Jae Hyun previously worked in the online commerce marketing industry with companies such as Wemakeprice, Coocha, Market Kurly, etc. She grew the company by making customer experience as a priority along with marketing.
MEKICS

Jong Cheol Kim

CEO

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MEKICS

Republic of Korea

Jong Cheol Kim, CEO of MEKICS, majored in BioMedical Engineering at Ajou University Graduate School. He went on to serve as Manufacturing Technology Team Leader at Madison. After that, he was in charge of development as Technical Director/Director of Research at Viosys. For his contribution to national industry development, Jong Cheol received the President's Commendation in 2002 and Prime Minister’s Commendation in 2013.
Incheon Medical Center

Jin Yong Kim

Physician

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Incheon Medical Center

Republic of Korea

Jin Yong Kim, Physician at Incheon Medical Center, obtained his medical license at Chosun University College of Medicine. He did his residency at Gachon University Gil Medical Center(GMC) Division of Infectious Disease. He worked as a clinical instructor for 5 years at GIMS. Since 2012, he has been working at Incheon Medical Center Division of Infectious Disease. He was the first doctor in South Korea to treat a suspected MERS patient in 2013, and suspected Ebolavirus patient in 2014. Ever since then, he has been involved in various areas of research to detect new diseases. In 2020, he was the first physician to treat a COVID-19 patient as well as the first person to design the COVID-19 drive-through clinic.
Dogugonggan

Jin Hyo Kim

CEO

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Dogugonggan

Republic of Korea

Jin Hyo Kim, CEO of Dogugonggan, received a B.S. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University and went to work as a OLED product engineer at LG Display. After LG Display, he went back to his alma mater and majored in Integrated Technology. During course work, he founded OPEN Choice based on his research and development know-how. After receiving his PhD, he founded Dogugonggan and is developing autonomous robots.
Grip

Hanna KIm

CEO

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Grip

Republic of Korea

Hanna Kim is currently CEO of Korea's first live commerce platform Grip. Before founding Grip, she as marketing director at Naver Snow, focused on growth and impact. She is highly accomplished with reaching 200 million users in aggressive, fast-paced and competitive global environment. Also driven Jam Live, the no.1 streaming quiz show with approaching to 230,000 connect concurrent users. Prior to joining Naver, she was an executive of global marketing and business development at Bluebird, no.1 rugged mobile in Korea.
GymT

Kieran Park

CEO/Founder

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GymT

Republic of Korea

Kieran Park, CEO and Founder of GymT, was in charge of corporate investment and business development at Nexon prior to GymT. Based in London, he explored and invested early stage developers in Europe, thereafter connecting them to Nexon’s global subsidiaries and helping them for global publishing. Before Nexon, he created megahit title called ‘Football Day’(web-based football simulation game) at NHN and leading whole development team as an Product Owner. Kieran also co-founded Sunnyloft, Social Network based application development startup, and exited in 2013 to Kakao. After graduating from Seoul National University and majoring in Business Administration, he was selected as a global management trainee at AB inBev, the largest beer company in the world, and worked as a brand manager in Belgium. His interest and passion to connect between sports and IT led him to gain a masters degree in Sports Management at Birkbeck College of University of London when residing in UK.
Seadronix

Byeolteo Park

CEO

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Seadronix

Republic of Korea

Byeolteo Park, CEO of Seadronix, is pioneering a new market by entering the Smart Port industry using technology and marketing skills. His service was recognized by being awarded the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Commendation and Ulsan Mayor Commendation. He has also served in the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries 4IR Committee and Ministry of Science and ICT Future Talents Special Committee. Before founding Seadronix, Byeolteo majored in Robotics at KAIST graduate school.
Neuromeka

Jong Hoon Park

CEO

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Neuromeka

Republic of Korea

Jong Hoon Park, an active expert in robot control area in industry, research, as well as academy during two decades, developed a series of industrial collaborative robots (cobots) named ‘Indy’ based on innovative robot control algorithms and software since he founded Neuromeka in 2013. In particular, Neuromeka contributed to productivity improvement in domestic SMEs with technologies necessary for economic and effective cobot-based automation for SMEs subject to ‘variable-volume, high-mix production’ mode required for 4th industrial Revolution era. Recently, he has been preparing for service industries in the coming New Normal age since COVID-19, as Neuromeka developed and applied a new concept of cobot-based cooking-automation systems.
mAy-I

Jun Hyuk Park

CEO

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mAy-I

Republic of Korea

Jun Hyuk Park is the CEO/Co-Founder of AI image processing startup, mAy-I. mAy-I provides imaged-based solutions that analyze offline visitors and is growing fast by collaborating with Eland Retail, LG Electronics, Hyundai Motors and more. Before founding mAy-I, Jun Hyuk was CEO/Co-Founder of social venture Virus where he planned and operated events for young entrepreneurs. He majored in Integrated Technology at Yonsei University. During his college years, he did research at his Alma Mater’s Multimedia Computing and Machine Learning research institute.
Neofect

Ho Young Ban

CEO

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Neofect

Republic of Korea

Ho Young Ban is the co-founder/CEO of rehabilitation solution startup, Neofect. He has earned BS in aerospace engineering at KAIST and completed his MBA at the University of Virginia. Ho Young started his career at Samsung Electronics and founded media service startup Koguryo TV Entertainment in the U.S. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he established Neofect with his KAIST alumnus.
NEWNEEK

Da Eun Bhin

COO/Co-Founder

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NEWNEEK

Republic of Korea

Da Eun studied Ethics Education and Business Management at Seoul National University. She interned for social venture firm HGI and media startup PUBLY. She co-founded NEWNEEK in July, 2018.
Planetarium

Ki Jun Seo

CEO

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Planetarium

Republic of Korea

Ki Jun Seo is the CEO and co-founder of Planetarium, a startup pioneering the next generation of open-source, serverless MMO games on blockchain technology. As an engineer and a project lead specializing in early stage products, Kijun worked at Nexon and Dropbox crafting mobile games with millions of downloads and reimagining real-time collaboration tools. He is a graduate of California Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science.
Lunit

Brandon Suh

CEO

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Lunit

Republic of Korea

Brandon studied medicine at Seoul National University and is a board-certified physician in Family Medicine, trained at Seoul National University Hospital. Prior to medical school, he studied biological sciences in KAIST and also received master’s degrees in both Public Health (MPH) and Business Administration (MBA). Brandon has much experience in both basic and clinical research, having published 30+ research articles in renowned scientific journals.
Brandi

Jung Min Seo

CEO

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Brandi

Republic of Korea

Jung Min Seo, CEO of Brandi, started online design platform, Vaimicom in 2007. He sold the company in 2013 to ISE Commerce, an online fashion retail business which manages overseas purchasing agency ‘WISWID’ and ‘W Concept.’ As Overseas President of ISE, he was in charge of market strategy. He went on to found fashion e-commerce platform Brandi in 2014. He also launched women shopping application ‘Brandi’ in 2016, shopping mall startup assistance service ‘Helpi’ in 2018, and men shopping application ‘Hiver’ in 2018. Brandi partnered with ‘Shandong Hands Good People E-Business Company’(fashion company within TaoBao) to start its Chinese business in 2018. Brandi went on to open pop-up store ‘Shibuya 109’ in Tokyo. In 2020, Brandi was the first in the fashion industry to establish a fulfillment center(Dongdaemun FulFillment Center) of 7,200 square meters. It also was the first company to launch overnight shipping(delivered within 12 hours) by using a big data-based demand forecasting algorithm. Jung Min has been leading the fashion e-commerce sector with online B2B2C and has completed a Dongdaemun-based fashion supply chain.
LG International Corp.

Alex Shin

Vice President

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LG International Corp.

Republic of Korea

Alex, currently Vice President at LG International Department of Solution Business, takes charge in ICT-based new business solutions and supports international startups as a part of open innovation initiatives. He is creating new roles for a general trading company to assist global scale up of startups. Prior to LGI, he served as an executive at a telecommunication company in the United States, a research institute at Korea’s leading conglomerate, an AI startup, and also at a sportainment company. With more than 20 years of experience, he is a technology and market trend expert who always searches for innovative businesses.
Busan Nam-gu PHC

Yeo Hyun Ahn

Deputy Medical Director

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Busan Nam-gu Public Healthcare Center

Republic of Korea

Yeo Hyun Ahn graduated from Inje University College of Medicine and became a anesthesiologist at Paik Hospital Department of Anesthesiology. As a anesthesiologist , she was in charge of surgery anaesthetic and operating room infection control. Currently, YeoHyun leads infectious disease control at Busan Nam-gu Public Healthcare Center. She is also on the K-quarantine International Standard Committee.
Naver

Sang Hwan Yang

Leader

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Naver

Republic of Korea

Sang Hwan is currently supporting technology startups grow as Naver's D2 Startup Factory leader. In the early 2000s, he led the mobile content business team at mobile startup Mbiznetworks (now, Celltrion Pharm). After joining NHN, he led the core game publishing team at Hangame and experienced the whole process of finding, nurturing and commercializing game IPs. Before D2SF, he led ecosystem projects for corporate sustainability at Naver.
INNERBOTTLE

Steve Oh

CEO

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INNERBOTTLE

Republic of Korea

While he worked as a representative patent attorney for a patent corporation, Steve Oh, CEO of Innerbottle Co., Ltd., went beyond his limit, protecting inventor's intellectual property rights, and making a direct contribution to society by commercializing his products. He worked hard to create a new business opportunity of his own, and finally introduced Innerbottle, a solution that minimizes residues and helps plastics to be recycled more conveniently. In addition, he won the ‘Challenge K-Startup 2018’, a 1:5770 rate competition, and is continuing to receive great attention from many brands. Since then, the company has successfully sraised Series A investment. The company recently moved its headquarters to create better environment for research and development and process of commercialization. He plans to bring an exciting innovation to the cosmetics packaging market while aiming to build brand value to its consumers.
E2E Health

Jung Taek Oh

CEO

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E2E Health

Republic of Korea

Jung Taek Oh, Founder/CEO of E2E Health, has shown remarkable results by adding coaching service to the digital healthcare sector. He was Project Manager at Samsung Electronics where he focused on developing wearable IT devices and medical imaging devices using new technology. He led many multinational clinical tests with domestic/foreign hospitals and launched a healthcare platform. With its patient management platform, E2E Health has branched to the US and launched chronic condition management service, urCare. E2E is also leading the domestic market by merging healthcare with welfare and releasing a community care service platform.
OXOpolitics

Will Ryu

Founder/CEO

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OXOpolitics

Republic of Korea

Will Ryu is a software engineer, an author, an open-source project owner, a working father, and an entrepreneur. Hohyon worked at Twitter for three years, where he published open-korean-text, an open-source Korean text processor. He also worked at Airbnb for four years designing and building Airbnb's payout system. Having closely investigated the culture of Silicon Valley companies, he created the concept of 'Role-driven Organization' and 'Rank-driven Organization.' He authored two books about Silicon Valley culture: Silicon Valley Illustrated (2018) and Self-motivated Professionals make the Best Company (2019). Based on his understanding of Silicon Valley companies' organizational decision-making process, he came up with a social data platform for collecting diverse opinions for social/political issues and founded a startup named OXOpolitics.
T&R Biofab

Won Soo Yun

CEO

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T&R Biofab

Republic of Korea

Won Soo Yun, CEO of T&R Biofab, has been studying 3D bioprinting technology since he was a professor at Korea Polytechnic University(KPU). To commercialize this technology, he founded T&R Biofab with Professor Dong Woo Cho of Postech and Professor Jing Hyung Sim of KPU in 2013. Won Soo Yun has used his experience as university professor and venture company CEO to lead his company to IPO in November, 2018.
AmazeVR

Steve Lee

CEO/Co-Founder

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AmazeVR

Republic of Korea

Steve co-founded AmazeVR, a virtual reality concert platform for the highest quality VR content creation and mass distribution in 2015 with founding members of Kakao. After the COVID-19, when music concerts are canceled in the foreseeable future, AmazeVR is providing an end-to-end solution for a radical new way to experience immersive music content with our proprietary technologies—from ultra-high-resolution custom cameras to cloud-based creation tools, to intuitive social interactions with friends as avatars. AmazeVR raised a $9.5M Series A investment round in 2019 from several strategic investors including LG Technology Ventures (Telco.), CJ Timewise Investment (Media/Content), Smilegate Investment (Gaming), and YG Investment (Entertainment/K-pop). Prior to AmazeVR, Steve worked as Head of Strategy and Head of New Business at Kakao. He led corporate-level projects including the M&A with Daum. He also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company and Kearney.
AWS

Channy Yun

Principal Tech Evangelist

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Amazon Web Services Korea

Republic of Korea

Channy Yun, a Principal Tech Evangelist at Amazon Web Services (AWS), is helping developers to enable cloud technology to build modern applications. He has over 20 years of experience in developing and operating online music services, e-payment and e-commerce, and large-scale API platforms. He started his career as a web developer and has played various roles such as Startup CTO, a community leader of open source software, and well-known blogger. Prior to joining AWS, he was a leader of open API platform and developer relations in Daum Communications.
Root Energy

Tae Hwan Yoon

CEO/Founder

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Root Energy

Republic of Korea

Tae Hwan Yoon is founder and CEO of Root Energy Inc.(RE), the first online crowd-funding and management platform for renewable energy in Korea. He has rich and various experiences on renewable energy industry. He serves as adviser of Korea New Deal Committee (Green New Deal Department), the Presidential Committee on Green Growth. He also believes that 100% renewable energy future is possible by people for people. He majored in wind energy engineering at Technical University of Denmark.
Coronamap

Dong Hun Lee

CEO

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Coronamap

Republic of Korea

Dong Hun Lee, CEO of Coronamap, was the first person to launch a service which displayed confirmed cases of COVID-19 just 10 days after the disease hit South Korea. Currently, Coronamap shows simultaneous access of 26,000 people with approximately 4.4 million views and 1.4 million users. It is running COVID-19 related services such as Coronamap, Maskmap, Coroname while collecting data on COVID-19. Dong Hun co-founded Modoc in 2019 while working as CTO. He is running offline meeting management service ‘Qring’ since 2020.
Sky Labs

Jack Lee

CEO

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Sky Labs

Republic of Korea

Jack Lee is the founder and CEO of Sky Labs. He is focusing on data-driven preventive healthcare which makes many people's lives to the full. To achieve this, Jack is responsible for making cardio tracker CART to diagnose and monitor chronic diseases in daily life. He takes advantage of his 15 years of experience developing signal processing systems to create one of the best healthcare platform and services. Prior to founding Sky Labs, he was a senior R&D engineer at Samsung Electronics R&D headquarter. He led the development of the 5G cellular communication technology and developed it for the first time over the world. He and Sky Labs were chosen as a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum(WEF) in 2019.
Neubility

Andrew Lee

CEO

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Neubility

Republic of Korea

Andrew Lee, CEO of Neubility, majored in Astronomy at Yonsei University. He has conducted research on developing micro satellites and payload imaging instruments. He won a grand prize at NASA aerospace innovation contest by re-designing space toilets. With this experience, Andrew transferred the patent. In addition, he took second place in NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest and third place in NASA Centennial Challenge. With his 6 years of experience as developer, he currently serves as CEO of Neubility, a company that develops autonomous software for last mile Robotics.
Enuma

Soo Inn Lee

CEO/Co-Founder

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Enuma

Republic of Korea

Sooinn Lee is co-founder and CEO of Enuma, an education technology company with offices in Berkeley, Seoul, and Beijing. She designs exceptional learning apps that empower ALL children — including those with special needs or without access to resources — to become independent learners. Recently, Sooinn led her team in the creation of Kitkit School, a comprehensive math and literacy learning suite for children in developing countries, which went on to win the Global Learning XPRIZE competition. On the commercial side, her team created the award-winning and chart-topping Todo Math, which has more than 7 million downloads worldwide; and Todo English, innovating the way young children receive English as Second language learning education in East Asia. Sooinn was named a Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the year (2020) and Ashoka Fellow (2017) for her ongoing work in bringing accessible, quality education solutions to children around the world.
Thingsflow

Su Ji Lee

CEO

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Thingsflow

Republic of Korea

Su Ji Lee, CEO of Thingsflow, formerly worked at Weddingbook where she designed and managed the company’s application. She led the digitalization of the South Korean Wedding Industry by running a platform that was packed with reviews from brides themselves. Before Weddingbook, she was the CEO of IT service offer startup HOIT. While at this job, Su Ji released applications such as 밥은 먹고 다니냐, 커플리.
Codeit

Yoon Soo Lee

CEO

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Codeit

Republic of Korea

Yoon Soo Lee is the co-founder & CEO at Codeit, an EdTech company that provides an interactive platform to teach people how to code. While studying Business Administration at Yonsei University, he founded the company and held responsibilities in product management, marketing, and finance. Yoonsoo led Codeit’s launch by successfully crowdfunding the product a total of $200k. Codeit is now a $4 million VC-funded company, leading the software education market in South Korea. In 2021, Codeit plans to broaden its influence to the United States and Southeast Asia.
AIDIN ROBOTICS

Yoon Haeng Lee

CEO

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AIDIN ROBOTICS

Republic of Korea

Dr. Yoon Haeng Lee is the CEO/Co-Founder of AIDIN ROBOTICS, specialized in sensing/control technology in Human-Robot Interaction(HRI). Increasing demand and awareness in HRI, he founded the company with Professor Hyouk Ryeol Choi of Sungkyunkwan University. The primary targeting market of AIDIN ROBOTICS is the sensors for the robotic applications, from force/torque sensors for the delicate and sensitive operation to proximity/contact sensors for collision avoidance. The company is also commercializing the AiDIN series, autonomous quadruped robots. Quadruped robots are a fast-growing industry robot platform, applicable for various missions such as shipping, observation, surveillance.
LAB2050

Won Jae Lee

CEO

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LAB2050

Republic of Korea

Won Jae is CEO of independent think tank 'LAB2050' where he researches and proposes policy alternatives to enhance social innovation and technology innovation together. He currently serves as a member of the Presidential Committee on Aging Society and Population Policy in the Korean government. Formerly, he served as a director in planning at independent policy think tank Yeosijae(Future Consensus Institute). He also was the president of the Hope Institute, an independent think tank for social innovation and founded Hankyoreh Economic Research Institute. Prior to this, he worked as a researcher at Samsung Economic Research Institute and as an economic journalist at Hankyoreh Newspaper. Wonjae regularly writes columns to comment on social and economic affairs. He earned a BA in Economics at Yonsei University and an MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Shopl & Company

Jun Seung Lee

Managing Director

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Shopl & Company

Republic of Korea

Jun Seung Lee, CEO of Shopl & Company, was in charge of overseas business at Pengtai(member of Cheil Worldwide network) for 11 years. After joining the company in 2004, he took full charge of establishing regional headquarters in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. He was in charge of all overseas business such as branching out to Southeast Asia. In this process, he was responsible for managing a Samsung Electronics retail store management and noticed that work was mainly managed by excel WhatsApp or even papers without any specialized software. To solve this problem, he searched for various software but was able to find nothing appropriate. Jun Seung used this experience to found Shopl & Company, a business which provides Digital Transformation solutions for offline duties. Shopl & Company launched employee performance management software Shop in 2017 and has been supporting many domestic/overseas global companies. In order to tackle COVID-19 issues such as preventive measures of the workplace, the company has launched an offline PoW(proof of work) solution HADA in 2020 also.
Allganize

Chang Su Lee

Founder/CEO

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Allganize

Republic of Korea

Chang Su Lee is Founder and CEO at Allganize, which helps businesses automate answering questions from myriads of text documents by AI. His first start up was 5Rocks, founded in 2010 in South Korea, and was acquired by Tapjoy in 2014. Along with the acquisition, he relocated to the Bay Area.
Crocus

Daniel Lim

CEO

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Crocus

United States of America

Daniel Lim is the CEO of Crocus, an Energy AI Platform startup. He started Crocus with a mission to deliver cutting edge AI technology in key areas of the energy sector which bridge the gap between current problems and AI technology based solutions. Crocus is currently providing its 'ACELO' applications to Fortune 500 firms and major cities in California. Prior to Crocus, Daniel spent his formative years at Utilidata and Samsung. He holds a BS in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University and a MS in Engineering from Brown University.
IGIS Investment Partners

Tae Hee Lim

CEO

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IGIS Investment Partners

Republic of Korea

Tae-Hee Lim, CEO of IGIS Investment Partners, formerly was in charge of financial management, M&A, IPO and corporate investment at IGIS Asset Management. He specializes in investment for opportunities in the prop-tech sector. After graduating from university, Tae-Hee worked in the Data Marketing Team at LG U-Plus. After finishing his MBA, he concentrated in corporate investment and cross-border M&A at Shinhan Bank and Shinhan Financial Group(Holding Co.). Afterwards, he was M&A Team Leader at CJ Olive Networks and LG Chemicals where he took charge of M&A for the Beauty Sector, Retail, Chemical Sector, and more. With experience in various sectors such as Telecom, Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, etc., he looks to invest in companies that blend different types of business. Tae-Hee majored in Industrial Management at KAIST and did his MBA at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jaranda

Seo Jung Chang

CEO

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Jaranda

Republic of Korea

Seo Jung Chang graduated college with a degree in Visual Communication Design and went on to work at Motorola Korea and Cheil. She was in charge of UX design at Motorola and and took lead in mobile advertisement business development at Cheil. Using this background, she started to design a service that could solve the problems she encountered. She launched a visiting tutor matching service ‘Jaranda’ to help children learn or play while their parents were at work. The service uses age, tendency, interest data to provide children(from age 4 to 13) with private tutors that teach art, english, math, and more. Unlike the past when tutors had to be introduced privately, Seo Jung applies big data to verify tutors and match them with children in need.
NSPACE

Sue Hyun Jung

CEO

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NSPACE

Republic of Korea

Sue Hyun Jung, the CEO & the Founder of NSPACE, provides unused space at a reasonable price to design an affordable city. SpaceCloud is an online marketplace that offers various retail spaces such as party rooms, photo studios, dance studios, and co-working spaces. The service has connected over 20 thousand spaces with 800 thousand Millennial users. The company also makes the future of small buildings by &Stable which provides shared housing for single households and shared facilities. With Naver’s investment, NSPACE creates services that help small business owners make better use of spaces. NSPACE collaborates with various companies, asset management companies, housing corporations, and local governments to innovate the city and to facilitate the usage of public facilities.
PLAIF

Tae Young Jeong

CEO

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PLAIF

Republic of Korea

Tae Young Jeong, CEO of PLAIF, was a member of KEBA Korea(of KEBA Group). He started his career as an application engineer and went on to positions such as team leader, PM within his 8 years of field experience. He has much understanding in robots and mass production. Approximately 10 years ago, he started a study group(with his current colleagues) to study AI and enter in many robot contests. Tae Young started an industrial and cooperating AI/robot startup in April 2020.
Yellowdog

Hyun Joo Je

CEO/Managing Partner

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Yellowdog

Republic of Korea

Hyun Joo Je is CEO and managing partner of Yellowdog, a leading impact venture capital in Korea. Established in 2016,Yellowdog invests in startups, at Pre- series A to series B, which have innovative potentials in four key impact domains - (1) climate actions and environmental solutions, (2) wellness and healthcare, (3) education, and (4) workstyle solutions. Yellowdog has invested approximately $55 million in 26 companies in Korea, Vietnam and US, and is currently managing over $100 million assets. Hyunjoo, prior to Yellowdog, used to work at Carlyle Asia Buyout Fund, Credit Suisse and McKinsey & Company.
Chartmetric

Sung Moon Cho

CEO

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Chartmetric

Republic of Korea

Sung Moon Cho is Founder and CEO of Chartmetric, a data analytics company dedicated to serve the music industry, by solving the complex problem by tracking a large amount of data and meeting the industry needs around playlist marketing. Prior to starting Chartmetric, he worked as Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation. Prior to that, he was first employee/engineer at Gamevil (KQ:063080), where he initiated mobile game development and eventually positioned the company as a leading mobile game developer. Sung graduated with a bachelor’s degree of electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University, and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Hunet

Young Tak Cho

CEO

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Hunet

Republic of Korea

Young Tak Cho, CEO of Hunet, graduated from Seoul National University with a Business Management major in 1989. After graduating college, he went on to work at Gumho. At Gumho, Young Tak experienced various positions such as Procurement, Accounting, Sales, Business Planning, Executive Assistant for more than 10 years. While working at Gumho, he earned his masters in Business Strategy at Seoul National University and also became a Certified Public Accountant. In 1999, Young Tak founded lifelong learning platform Hunet. Hunet is gaining attention due to its reputation as an expert in non-contact education. Young Tak started an email newsletter service in 2003 and currently has 2.2 million subscribers. He also writes columns and does lectures on CEO leadership.
Classting

Dave Cho

CEO/Founder

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Classting

Republic of Korea

Dave Cho founded Classting in 2013 based on his experience as a public school teacher. It was the first online class platform in Korea. Classting combines the strengths of social media and LMS (learning management system) to help teachers teach multiple students more effectively. More than 6.5 million teachers, students, and parents are using the service as of 2020. The company is developing individualized EdTech services using continuously accumulated big data from elementary education to lifelong education. Dave received a master’s degree in computer education from Seoul National University of Education, and was selected as a “2020 Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum for the first in the education sector in the country.
Yam Table

Sang Hyun Ju

CEO

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Yam Table

Republic of Korea

Sang Hyun Ju, CEO of Yam Table, grew up in Tongyeong, a city rich in fishery products. Being born in a family that was involved in the fishing industry, he went on to spend his 20s in offline retail of fishery products. He started his own wholesale business while earning a Suhyub broker certification to sell fishery products wholesale. As online commerce was on a rapid rise in the late 2000s, he took his business online. He pivoted to online commerce in 2013 by taking pictures of his products, studying Photoshop, making product descriptions and registering on Naver Smart Farm. As fishery products posted more than five billion won in online sales, Sang Hyun found a future in online commerce. He launched Yam Table after merging with an online company. Yam Table raised investment in pre-Series A and sales increased to 10 billion won in 2018. In 2019, Yam Table raised investment in Series A and sales tripled to 3.2 billion won. Yam Table is now the top business in online commerce of fishery products.
Huray Positive

Doo Ah Choi

CEO

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Huray Positive

Republic of Korea

Doo Ah Choi is the founder and CEO of Huray Positive, a digital healthcare startup focused on developing PHR(Personal Health Record) service platform and diverse digital healthcare software. Since founding the most disruptive company in 2010, he has been pioneering a new healthcare area with digital innovation for 10 years. Prior to founding Huray Positive, Doo Ah was a team leader at Naver, one of the biggest search companies in South Korea. He was responsible for product management, go-to-market strategies in various search products from 2007 to 2010. Prior to joining Naver, Doo Ah founded two startups with providing a solution for communication software and acquired by large software companies from 2000 to 2006. Doo Ah is also serving as a member of the government healthcare committee including the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, Ministry of Science, and ICT. He holds a BS degree in Business Administration from Yonsei University in Korea. (2000).
Nearthlab

Jay Choi

Co-Founder/CEO

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Nearthlab

Republic of Korea

Jay is the co-founder and CEO of Nearthlab, which develops autonomous drone solutions for inspection and analysis of blade defects. Nearthlab is currently the largest drone inspection provider in Korea with experiences in the U.S. and Japan as well. Prior to founding Nearthlab in 2015, he worked as a plant engineer at Doosan Heavy Industries, where he realized the potential of drones as a tool that allows more efficient and safe maintenance of facilities. Jay holds B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, one of South Korea’s top research universities.
Button Soup

Jay Choi

CEO

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Button Soup

Republic of Korea

Jay Choi is the founder and CEO of Button Soup, Inc. Button Soup is operating Ghost Kitchen, which is a cloud kitchen service providing built-in kitchens to small business owners who open take-out or delivery only restaurants. 98 kitchens and 5 branches around Seoul are operating, and 4-5 more locations will open in 2020. Before founding Ghost Kitchen, he had worked for Baedal-Minjok as a Head of IR, led two funding rounds from Goldman Sachs (raised $36mm), and Hillhouse Capital Group (raised $50mm). He was also responsible for M&A and investment in startups to accelerate Baedal-Minjok's growth as a market leader in online food e-commerce. After graduating from graduate school with a Master's degree in Electrical engineering, he had founded or joined five IT (Information Technology) startups for 21 years. With the understanding of the food-delivery market learned while he was in Baedal-Minjok and the information technology learned from other startups, he finally founded Ghost Kitchen.
AFMC

Joon Nyung Heo

Medical Officer

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The Armed Forces Medical Command

Republic of Korea

Joon Nyung Heo is currently enrolled in the Armed Forces Medical Command as a medical officer, and is a neurologist. He is the founder and the CEO of a NGO, Doctors on the Cloud (DOCL). DOCL aims to save lives using ICT, and currently focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic. DOCL cooperated with the KCDC to deliver an AI solution that can guide in patient selection for efficient medical resource allocation. The solution is expected to save COVID-19 lives worldwide He previously was a CEO of a startup Pinnote and also was a co-founder of Freemed, a social enterprise. Also, he developed an app for time management that placed 2nd most popular in Korean app store in 2012.
Saltlux

Bo Hwang

Vice President

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Saltlux

Republic of Korea

Bo Hwang, Vice President of Saltlux, has been in the advertising business for over 30 years. Notable roles include Judge at Cannes Lions, New York Festival, etc. He has done advertisements for ssg.com, Korean Air, Baemin, KD Navien and more. Afterwards, he joined Saltlux as Chief Creative Officer to blend creativity with AI. At Saltlux, he is in charge of strategy establishment, new business and UX. Bo is also Adjunct Professor at Ewha Woman’s University where he shares his experience to students.
OPENUB

Chang Hee Hwang

Representative Director

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OPENUB

Republic of Korea

Chang Hee Hwang founded social commerce Bestplace and successfully exited. Through this experience, he discovered that the development of social commerce/online commerce would lead to the development of retail service. This led him to founding Rocketlogistics, a social commerce-exclusive 3PL retail service. Chang Hee was eager to add IT to offline retail and pioneer a new market full of added value. After being discharged from the army, he went on to earn his master’s in MIS at Seoul National University. While studying, he thought about ways to enhance the lives of individuals through big data and AI. Chang Hee gathered others with the same goal and founded OPENUB in 2019.

Meet our Investors

Stealth

Akul Penugonda

Founder

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Stealth

United States of America

Akul is an East Coast native who joined Acceleprise from Yext, a large SaaS company in New York. Recently, he founded Stealth. He joined Yext after college and stayed through IPO. He has spent time in various positions in both Software Engineering and Product Management, and spends time volunteering in his free time. Akul graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
BPI

Albert Shyy

Managing Director

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Burda Principal Investment

Singapore

Albert is a Managing Director and leads Burda Principal Investments' Singapore office, where he focuses on looking for Series B stage investments in Southeast Asia. He currently sits on the board of Zilingo, Carsome, Hmlet, Priceza, and Coc Coc. Previously he was at GREE Ventures from 2014 to 2017, where he eventually led the fund's investment team in Southeast Asia and India. Prior to this, he served as a Director at Lazada Group, helping build the company’s Marketplace business across the region. Other professional experience includes co-founding an online menswear company in the US and spending 5 years as a management consultant at Monitor Group. He completed his MBA at the University of California, Berkeley and did his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kejora Ventures

Andreas Surya

Principal

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Kejora Ventures

Indonesia

Andreas Surya, Principal of Kejora Ventures, has led the investment activity and portfolio management activity in Kejora Ventures since 2015. His past experiences include 20 years of various industry in ICT field: from cloud computing, IT infrastructure, and telecomunications.
Sequoia Capital

Andrew Du

Associate

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Sequoia Capital

China

Andrew Du is an investor at Sequoia Capital covering both China and South Korea, focusing on internet/entertainment/ecommerce/education etc. Prior Sequoia Capital , he worked for Tencent. Andrew graduated from Peking University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Sierra Ventures

Ben Yu

Managing Director

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Sierra Ventures

United States of America

Ben Yu is a Managing Partner at Sierra Ventures, a 38 year old Silicon Valley based early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Next Generation Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. Ben has been with the firm since 2000. Ben is an engineer and inventor by background. He is passionate about emerging sectors and breakthrough ideas. His investment philosophy is finding early-stage companies with great technologies that can truly make a difference and helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into market leaders. His current portfolio and selected past companies can be found on the Sierra Ventures website.
Fosun PE

Bo Jiang

President

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Fosun Private Equity Fund

China

Mr.Jiang is President and Managing Partner of FosunPE. He is responsible for overall investment strategy, process, and portfolio performance management of FosunPE. Prior to joining Fosun, Bo spent 7 years with New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a leading global venture capital firm where he was an Executive Director and NEA's China spin-off fund Long Hill Capital where he became Partner. Prior to joining NEA, Bo worked with Alibaba Group, where he led the founding team of the mobile payment unit and the development and launch of the first mobile payment product in China.
Collab Fund

Bryan Chang

Principal

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Collaborative Fund

United States of America

Bryan Chang is a San Francisco-based principal at Collaborative Fund. Collaborative Fund is an early-stage investment firm in NYC, backing the entrepreneurs pushing the world forward. Its notable investments include Lyft, Beyond Meat, Kickstarter, Impossible Foods, Reddit, Blue Bottle Coffee, and more. Prior to Collaborative Fund, Bryan was on the investment team at Social Capital and founding team at Mattermark, having raised over $17m+ total and later acquired by Fullcontact. He started his career at UBS Investment Bank in San Francisco.
Alpha JWC

Chandra Tjan

Founder/Managing Partner

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Alpha JWC Ventures

Indonesia

Mr. Chandra Tjan started his tech investment career over a decade ago, making him the first venture capitalist in Indonesia. Before co-founding Alpha JWC Ventures in 2015, Mr. Tjan founded the country’s first VC East Ventures in 2009. Since then, he has invested in more than 60 early-stage startups — including two unicorns: online marketplace Tokopedia and all-in-one travel booking platform Traveloka — and was also the first board member of both unicorns in their early days. He currently sits on the board of some of the regional leading tech companies, including FundingSocieties, Carro, GudangAda, Bobobox and OnlinePajak. Mr. Tjan graduated from University of Sydney, and is currently taking a three-year residential Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School. Mr. Tjan is also a member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).
Ahoy Capital

Chris Douvos

Managing Director

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Ahoy Capital

United States of America

Chris Douvos founded Ahoy Capital in 2018 to build an intentionally right-sized firm that could pursue investment excellence while prizing a spirit of partnership with all of its constituencies. A pioneering investor in the micro-VC movement, Chris has been a fixture in venture capital for nearly two decades. Prior to Ahoy Capital, Chris spearheaded investment efforts at Venture Investment Associates, and The Investment Fund for Foundations. He learned the craft of illiquid investing at Princeton University’s endowment. Chris earned his B.A. with Distinction from Yale College in 1994 and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management in 2001.
Grab Ventures

Chris Yeo

Head

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Grab Ventures

Indonesia

Chris is Managing Director, Head of Grab Ventures (GV), whose mandate is to develop the next generation tech leaders in SEA. Grab Ventures does this through Venture Building and Venture Investments. For Venture Building, internal startups that Chris has launched include: GrabFresh (online groceries), GrabWheels (eScooter sharing), GrabKitchen (Cloud Kitchen) and GrabHealth (online healthcare). For Venture Investments, GV focuses on Series A+ strategic investments in sectors related to Grab’s O2O businesses and across all geographies. This also includes Grab Ventures Velocity (GVV), a scale up program for post-seed stage startups, which already has 15 startups in its portfolio across 2 batches.
7911 Partners

Denny Kim

Founder/Principal

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7911 Partners

United States of America

Denny Kim is the Principal & Founder of 7911 Partners, a private investment and advisory firm focused on the FinTech sector. Denny also serves as an Advisor to Gemspring Capital, a lower middle market private equity firm with $1.1 billion in assets under management. Prior to 7911 Partners, Denny spent eleven years as a private equity investor focused solely on investing in financial services companies, having worked at WL Ross & Co. as well as J.C. Flowers & Co. Denny began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston. Denny received a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
White Star Capital

Eddie Lee

Principal

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White Star Capital

United States of America

A Principal at White Star Capital based in New York, Eddie invests in and works alongside entrepreneurs in both New York and Seoul. Eddie was previously an Associate at the Asset Management division of J.P.Morgan in New York, where he led internal strategy for the Big Data and Business Intelligence Group. He started his career there as an Analyst of the Private Equity Group.
Central Capital VC

Eric Hendrickus

Investment Associate

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Central Capital Ventura

Indonesia

Eric joined Central Capital Ventura (CCV) as an Investment Analyst after graduating from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Entrepreneurship. Now an Investment Associate, Eric is responsible for leading the investment process at CCV as well as managing the firm’s portfolio companies. To date, he has been involved in 18 investments across different fintech verticals such as payments, lending, robo-advisory, and others. Outside of CCV, Eric likes to contribute back to the startup ecosystem through mentoring. He is currently a mentor at Gerakan Nasional 1000 Startup Digital (1000 Startup Digital Movement), an initiative from the Indonesian government to grow and groom the local startup ecosystem.
Angel Ventures

Hernán Fernández

Managing Partner

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Angel Ventures

Mexico

Hernán is the Founder and Co-Managing Partner at Angel Ventures, where he manages deal-flow, investor relations and share duties in creating value for the investment portfolio. He is also the founder of the largest angel investment network in Latin America. He currently serves as a Board Member at the Mexican Association of PE & VC Funds (AMEXCAP). Prior to Angel Ventures, Hernán started his professional career as a corporate lawyer in PwC's Mexico City and Paris branch offices, as a consultant for the Sustainable Business initiative of the United Nations Development Program in the U.S. and Paraguay and later as a management consultant for Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) in Mexico City. He has been named one of CNN/Expansion 30 Mexico's Promises and the Most Influential Angel Investor in Mexico according to TechCrunch. Hernán holds a master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a law degree from ITAM in Mexico. AV has put together a strong and flexible team, bestinclass, in-house developed processes and attracted a multidisciplinary group of advisors, mentors and allies that not only provide capital, but most importantly, talent, relationships, and brain power. The managing team has extensive experience in company development and growth, private equity transactions, management and operation of venture capital funds, mergers, and acquisitions launching startups and new business units, as well as strategic consulting and operational administration of multinational conglomerates.
Tekton Ventures

Jai Choi

Managing Partner

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Tekton Ventures

United States of America

Jai Choi is a founder of Tekton Ventures, a global seed stage venture firm he started in 2010. In addition, Jai has been a partner with Partner Partners since 2007, a global venture firm that invests across all stages in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Jai has spent over 18 years in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur and early stage investor. Jai has invested in over 100+ early stage companies internationally including Coupang, Toss, Outdoorsy, Frontier Car Group, Signifyd, MyRealTrip, and Kyash. Jai was a partner with Ignite Ventures, a venture fund and advisory group with limited partners from major Asia-based technology conglomerates. Jai was an early employee at OnePage Software, a content personalization platform acquired by Sybase in 2001. Jai previously co-founded On-Air Networks in 1997, an online radio company acquired by Loudeye (Nokia). Jai started his career in management consulting at PA Consulting Group, working for major telecom and energy companies.
Gobi Partners

Jamaludin Bujang

Managing Director

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Gobi Partners

Malaysia

Jamal joined the firm in 2019 and is overseeing operations and investment activities at Gobi’s Kuala Lumpur office. He has 15 years of experience in equity research, investment evaluation, corporate finance, and M&A and an additional 14 years of experience in venture capital. Prior to Gobi, he was the CEO of MAVCAP, Malaysia’s largest venture capital firm and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ministry Of Finance Inc, which has directly and indirectly invested in over 1,100 startups since 2001. While at MAVCAP, he created, managed, and participated as LP in 9 funds with a combined size of over $500m. At Gobi, he successfully launched a $20m venture fund in Pakistan, in collaboration with the Fatima Group, one of the country’s largest conglomerates. He is active in the Malaysian startup scene; and has served as the Chairman of the Malaysian Venture Capital Association, a member of the Malaysian Venture Capital Development Council, a founding member and Treasurer of the Global Entrepreneurship Movement and as member of investment committees in several VC funds and government grants.
Prysm Capital

Jay Park

Co-Founder/Managing Partner

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Prysm Capital

United States of America

Jay Park is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Prysm Capital where he provides growth capital to disruptive management teams across the technology, consumer, and healthcare markets in the US and Asia. Prior to Prysm, Jay spent 18 years with BlackRock helping lead private equity investing activities across the US and Asia. Prior, Jay was a principal investment officer with Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity focused on investing in the emerging markets, after starting his career in Merrill Lynch M&A. Jay earned a BS degree in applied mathematics and economics from Brown University, and an MBA degree, with honors, from Columbia University.
T Fund

Jay Zhao

Partner

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T Fund

United States of America

As an entrepreneur-turned-VC, Jay is a Partner at T Fund (aka TCL Ventures), a global CVC arm by TCL Corp, one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world. Jay is also responsible for helping define TCL’s strategic roadmap as well as corporate's M&A and partnerships. Previously, Jay was a Senior Director / Partner at Walden Venture Capital, one of the pioneer venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, with a global presence in Asia and Israel. Prior to Walden, Jay was a Principal at Granite Ventures (ex- H&Q venture group), a premier San Francisco based VC firm that manages over $1 billion AUM.
Vickers

Jeffrey Chi

Vice Chairman

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Vickers Venture Partners

Singapore

Dr. Jeffrey Chi is a veteran in the venture capital industry. Dr. Chi co-founded Vickers Venture Partners in 2005. He is also former Chairman and currently Ambassador of the Singapore Venture Capital Association. Dr. Chi also sits on board of SEEDS Capital (Investment arm of Enterprise Singapore) and on the advisory panels of the MAS, A*Star and the National University of Singapore Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management. Dr. Chi is a CFA Charter holder and graduated from Cambridge University in Engineering. He earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in organizational knowledge and information technology.
KCA

Jenhao Han

CEO

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KCA Capital Partners

Singapore

Mr. Jenhao Han is the CEO of KCA Capital Partners (“KCA”), a growth equity investment firm focusing on value creation through cross border market expansion. KCA is sponsored by China International Capital Corporation (“CICC”) which has extensive business and government relationships to facilitate market expansion in China and South East Asia. Prior to founding KCA, Mr. Han led the Asia business for ARDIAN (formerly known as AXA Private Equity) as Head of Asia for 10 years based in Singapore. During his tenure at ARDIAN, Mr. Han was responsible for investment to over $1.3bn in Asia. He advised various financial institutions on investment strategy in alternative assets and companies on strategic cross-border initiatives in Asia. Mr. Han holds an MBA degree from INSEAD and undergraduate from Cornell University. He has extensive professional and personal experience in Asia, and is fluent in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
Gen 1 VC

Julian Cheng

Managing Director

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Gen 1 Capital

United States of America

Julian Cheng focuses on deep technology investments in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, computer vision, space, AR, connected car, healthtech, fintech, insurance, and others. Julian is passionate about supporting and mentoring founders to help them build world-changing businesses and building their character. Before becoming a venture capital investor, he managed and developed software and hardware for enterprises, microprocessors, satellites, and co-founded two start-ups in the Internet of Things and education spaces. After working at large tech companies and start-ups in SF, LA, Austin, and Chicago he transitioned to venture capital to invest in and cultivate the technical and entrepreneurial ecosystem in hopes to transform the community. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois and studied engineering management at Stanford and Northwestern Universities where he obtained his Masters.
DG Daiwa VC

Junichi Nakajima

Executive Manager

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DG Daiwa Ventures

Japan

Junichi joined Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in 2000. After this, he worked at KPMG FAS, Lone Star Funds, Marubeni (US), and Cool Japan Fund (government fund). Joined DG Daiwa Ventures in 2018 as the head of investment Dep. He graduated in 2018 from Keio University, Business and Commerce, and received his MBA, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania.
Vertex Holdings

Kee Lock Chua

CEO

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Vertex Holdings

Singapore

Kee Lock is CEO of Vertex Holdings (“VH”), a Singapore-headquartered venture capital investment holding company. The Vertex global network of funds comprises early-stage technology focused Vertex Ventures (China, Israel, SEA & India and US), early-stage healthcare focused Vertex Ventures HC, and growth-stage focused Vertex Growth. Each of these funds is managed by independent General Partnerships, with VH providing anchor funding alongside third-party capital commitments. Mr. Chua is concurrently Managing Partner of Vertex Ventures SEA & India as well as Chairman of Vertex Growth. He also serves on the boards of several companies, including Yongmao, a Singapore public-listed company. Mr. Chua previously held senior positions in Biosensors International Group, Ltd., Walden International, NatSteel Ltd., and Intraco Ltd. He co-founded MediaRing, provider of voice-over-internet, which later listed on Singapore’s stock exchange. Mr. Chua graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin and an M.S. degree from Stanford University.
Vickers

Kenneth Chew

Associate Director

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Vickers Venture Partners

Singapore

Based in San Francisco, Kenneth Chew oversees investment deals in the USA and South Korea for Vickers Venture Partners. He started his career with the Singapore government, eventually establishing and running the Seoul office for the Singapore Economic Development Board. Prior to joining Vickers in 2018, Kenneth co-founded a consumer tech startup in Silicon Valley, and also ran the Singapore outfit for KOSPI-listed Noroo Holdings, looking at food and agri-tech deals. Kenneth has an Engineering degree from the University of Michigan, and is at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
MDI Ventures

Kenneth Li

Managing Partner

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MDI Ventures

Indonesia

Kenneth is the Managing Partner of MDI VC Singapore, and he is responsible for MDI Ventures Global Expansion and Fund Initiatives. He is one of the founding members of MDI ventures and has been with the firm since the day of its inception. His experience also includes time at Deloitte and Systec VC, one of the earliest VC/venture builders in Indonesia. Subsequently, he also manages several private funds throughout his career. There are currently two funds that actively operate under his management. His investment follows the belief in a mix between value investing and sustainable growth fueled by venture investment. Throughout his career with MDI, his investment choice has contributed four out of seven exits for MDI. The sector of choice includes fintech, logistics, SaaS, and consumer tech. His next focus is to bring MDI Ventures as a globally respectable venture firm. He believes the combination of the VC model with a corporate-backed ecosystem should be one of the vital determinants of success for MDI ventures.
B Capital

Luke Kornack

Investor

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B Capital Group

United States of America

Luke Kornack is an Investor in B Capital’s San Francisco office. Prior to joining B Capital, Luke worked at Financial Technology Partners in the Private Capital Markets Group advising on sellside engagements targeting non-strategic pools of capital. Prior to FT Partners, Luke spent time at Bites Media and Bowen Advisors. Luke is a graduate of Gettysburg College with a BA in Globalization Studies.
Central Capital VC

Michelle Suteja

Director

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Central Capital Ventura

Indonesia

Appointed as Director at PT Central Capital Ventura since June 13, 2017. She graduated in 2009 from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics with an International Business & Trade degree. She started her entrepreneurship career in Shanghai back in 2005. She started her career in the technology sector in 2013 when she founded e-commerce startup, travel, and marketplace for financial products. She mentored at Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI) and Purwadhika Startup School. In 2015, she began working in a venture capital when she took a position at Monk’s Hill Ventures. Following that, she became the growth consultant/director of business development for many prominent startups.
ERA

Murat Aktihanoglu

Managing Director

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Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

United States of America

Murat is co-founder and Managing Director at ERA, an early-stage venture capital fund and technology accelerator in New York City that has invested in and accelerated 208 startups since 2011. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science and he has started multiple technology startups in NYC after having worked in Silicon Valley as a technologist. He started Entrepreneurs Roundtable, a non-profit, in 2007 in New York City to help the startup ecosystem grow and connect the entrepreneurial community with each other and investors through free monthly events that have been going on every month since 2007. He is also the author of the book “Location-Aware Applications” published by Manning Publications and a frequent speaker globally on technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.
BAM VC

Richard Jun

Co-Founder/Managing Director

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BAM Ventures

United States of America

Richard Jun is the Co-founder and Managing Director of BAM Ventures, a top performing early-stage consumer fund based in Los Angeles that he started with Brian S. Lee, a serial angel investor and the co-founder of Legalzoom, Shoedazzle, and The Honest Company. Prior to BAM, Richard served on Shoedazzle’s senior management team and helped orchestrate the merger of the company with its largest competitor at the end of 2013. At BAM, Richard has used his full-stack company building experience to invest in and help accelerate the growth of some of the most recognizable consumer brands that exist today. He has personally led investments in over 80 companies to date.
Mubadala

Shaun Lee

Investor

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Mubadala Capital

United States of America

Shaun Lee is an investor with Mubadala Capital - Ventures. Mubadala is the $250bn sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dabi making financial-first investments globally across 15+ sectors. Based in SF as part of a dedicated VC fund of Mubadala, Shaun focuses on early-stage / growth FinTech, software, and autonomous investments in North America. He has invested in industry-leading companies such as Brex, Gabi Insurance, Waymo, Embark Trucks, and Parkside Securities, amongst other investments. Prior to his career in venture, Shaun was a technology investment banker with UBS and graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Nyca Partners

Sol Lee

Senior Associate

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Nyca Partners

United States of America

Sol Lee is a Senior Associate at Nyca Partners, a leading fintech focused venture capital fund based in New York. Nyca invests across all stages of financial services and connects innovative companies to the global financial system. At Nyca, Sol focuses on identifying new investment opportunities as well as providing portfolio company support and building out the fund’s operations. Most of Sol’s prior background is in the payments world. Prior to joining Nyca, Sol was on the Payments team at Uber, focusing on analytics and optimization of card, cash and wallet disbursements and collections globally. Before Uber, Sol was an at Mastercard in Strategy & Analytics, working both on the issuer and merchant side of the business. Sol received her BBA from University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Amino Capital

Sue Xu

Partner

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Amino Capital

United States of America

Dr. Sue Xu is a Partner at Amino Capital, and her focus areas of investment include data-driven solutions and web3.0. She was interim CEO of CandyHouse, Databeyond, and CyteSi. Since 2012, she was involved in more than 160 investments, including Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), GrokStyle (acquired by Facebook), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Mobike (acquired by Meituan/Tencent), Evertoon (acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (acquired by Kuaishou/Tencent), Voyage, AIFI.io, Vicarious, Paperspace, Whova, WeTravel, Webflow, Grail, Chime Bank. Dr. Sue Xu began her early-stage entrepreneurship when she was the founding scientist of GlycoMira (also involved in undergrad and Ph.D. laboratory spin-offs). She has three patents and over 20 journal publications, and previously was a Postdoc fellow at Stanford University.
Golden Gate VC

Vinnie Lauria

Managing Partner

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Golden Gate Ventures

Singapore

Vinnie is an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is a founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Southeast Asia with over US$250M AUM and 45+ investments to date. He is a Kauffman Fellow, and a guest lecturer at the National University of Singapore. He was rated by the Founder Institute as the top startup mentor in Asia from a pool of 2,500 mentors. Prior to Golden Gate Ventures, Vinnie built two startups in Silicon Valley: Meetro, a location-based chat service which was dissolved with many lessons learned in 2007; and Lefora, a forum hosting platform which grew to over 100,000 communities and was acquired by CrowdGather in 2010. Earlier in his career, Vinnie spent four years within IBM. Vinnie is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Engineering. Vinnie is passionate about building startup ecosystems and joined his first startup while still in high school.
Heritas

Wai Chiew Chik

CEO

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Heritas Capital Management

Singapore

Wai Chiew is the CEO / Executive Director of Heritas Capital Management, overseeing PE / VC and Fund-of-Funds investments focused on healthcare, education and technology sectors globally.Wai Chiew has over 20 years of experience in global investment management and strategic business development, having been active in leading companies on transformational growth strategies, fundraising and M&A. In his previous roles at Temasek and other funds, he has led and managed investments across multiple industries and geographies.
Hosencare

Wei Sun

Partner

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Hosencare Brothers

China

Dr. Wei Sun is partner of Hosencare Brothers and funding partner of Digital Craftsman Venture Partners (DCVP). He has over 15 years of experience in entrepreneurship, venture financing and healthcare. Dr. Sun was an investor at Hosen Capital, leading its investments in technology and health related areas. Before that, Dr. Sun worked with Booz & Co., helping fortune 500 and leading Chinese companies to grow in China and overseas. He also had many years of product management and startup experience in the US, where he worked with Morningstar as well as served as founding members of two technological startups. Dr. Sun received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester, MBA with honor from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and BS in Electrical Engineering and BA in English from Tianjin University.
SOSV

William Bao Bean

GENERAL PARTNER

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SOSV (Chinaccelerator & MOX)

United States of America

William Baobin is a general partner of SOSV, known as the Global Accelerator VC, with more than 30 percent of Net IRRs, the world's top 5 percent, and runs Cross-Border Internet Software Accelerator, China Accelerator, and Mobile Only Accelerator, which has about 130 million smartphone users in the Southeast Asian market. Previously, SinghTelInnov8 Ventures supported Chinese investment as Managing Director, served as a partner for Softbank China & India Holdings, and previously worked as a Deutsche Bank analyst for about 11 years. From 2004 to 2014, about 39 startups were invested in Angel.
GPCP

Xiaoyu Zhu

Managing Director

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Green Pine Capital Partners

China

Xiaoyu Zhu currently serves as managing director at Green Pine Capital Partners, a leading venture capital based in Shenzhen focusing on deep-tech investment. Previously, he worked at top policy and investment advisory firms, as well as think tanks at Washington DC and Beijing. Mr. Zhu received dual bachelor’s degrees in international studies and psychology from China’s Peking University. He also earned his MBA from Yale University and MA from George Washington University.
HLC

Y.S. Lee

Investment Professional

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Highlight Capital

China

Y.S. Lee has extensive experience in IPO, M&A, and deal transactions in various sectors. He is a trilingual speaker, he can speak Chinese, English, and Korean fluently. Mr. Lee received his B.S in Economics from Fudan University.
Etri Holdings

Stanley Kang

Director

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Etri Holdings

Republic of Korea

Stanley Kang, is the director of Etri Holdings Inc., an investment company that specializes in technology commercialization businesses of ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute). Through 10 years of work experience as an Investment Manager, he successfully managed to generate a very high return since the beginning of his company foundation, being listed on KOSDAQ in 2019. Before joining Etri Holdings, he worked as a founding member of two startups, taking charge of management and sales, respectively, and general technology affairs of Vietnam’s telecommunication service business. Prior to this, he worked at SK Hynix as a software developer for 10 years, as well as at a spin-off startup, successfully taking the lead of the ADSL market in Korea. Furthermore, he has extensive work experience in diverse work fields, including pre-test supervisor for domestic and international product supply and pre-training for operators.
COS VC

Su Hyun Kang

CEO

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COS Investment

Republic of Korea

Su Hyun Kang, CEO of COS Investment, started his first software business while he was in college. Based on this experience, he has run startups for over 7 years. Su Hyun started venture investment in 2006, became the first professional angel investor in 2014, and started a PEF funded private investment fund in 2016. As the CEO of COS Investment and GP of COS private investment fund, Su Hyun is running three private investment funds while angel investing in approximately 50 companies. He supports the growth of his portfolio companies through early stage investment.
Global One AM

Jin Young Ko

Vice President

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Global One Asset Management

Republic of Korea

Jin Young Ko, Vice President of Global One Asset Management, was formerly in charge of fund management for restructuring the shipbuilding industry and Korea-Japan synergy fund formation at Capital One. At that time, he sought domestic companies that had VC technology and reviewed and invested in seawater desalination technology, BWTS technology and more. Also, he was GP and LP for PEF at Shinhan Invest M&A/PE Department. At Shinhan Invest, Jin Young did fund investment for bio companies branching to the US. He also assisted in the IPO process and invested in many beauty companies that were in need of overseas investment.
CreditEase

Seung Ha Ku

Managing Partner

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CreditEase

Republic of Korea

Seungha Ku, Managing Partner, leads the global private equity business within CreditEase and is responsible for the overall management, strategy and investment decisions. Seungha manages ~$800 million in AUM and oversees ~70 existing private equity investments globally. Prior to CreditEase, Seungha worked at private equity group within GCM Grosvenor and Credit Suisse in Hong Kong where he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating and monitoring investments. Prior to Credit Suisse, Seungha worked at Macquarie in New York where he worked on M&A and capital markets advisory activities. Seungha graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics and studied at Tsinghua University.
Synergy IB

Kurt Koo

Managing Director

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Synergy IB Investment

Republic of Korea

Kurt Koo, Managing Director of Synergy IB Investment, majored in computer science and later became a software engineer. In 1999, he started a Dot-com company based in Manhattan. Now, he is a venture capitalist/representative fund manager who is running 3 funds. He formerly worked as a developer at WebCash, Kakao, and Nexon. During his 10 years at Nexon, he developed 4 online games such as Mabinogi, Counterstrike Online and etc. He is active in the machine learning sector as he currently serves as Head Dean/research fellow of School of AI and Tech Advisor of MarkTechPost. He finished in the top10 at the 2018 RetroSonic Contest(hosted by OpenAI) and reached the second round in the 2018 Prosthetics Challenge at NeurIPS. As a venture capitalist, he vibrantly discusses technology as well as business content. He is known as the first institutional investor who invested in the no.1 interior O2O(online to offline) startup, ZipDoc. His portfolio includes OncoQuest(ovarian cancer immunotherapy company/BioTech) and E Green Global (seed potato/ AgTech) and ST Unitas (no.1 in online education).
DVP

Aera Kwon

Director

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Daedeok Venture Partners

Republic of Korea

Aera Kwon, Director of Daedeok Venture Partners, was formerly in charge of strategy development at LG Electronics CSO Business Development Team. Before LG Electronics, she was ICT industry analysist at Korea Development Bank Research Center. Former positions include CSO at WADIZ and strategy development at AhnLab Strategy Planning Department.
500 Startups Korea

Min Kim

Director

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500 Startups Korea

Republic of Korea

MinKim is a Director at 500 Startups Korea. 500Startups is the most active early seed investorand global venture capital firm with its HQbased in Silicon Valley. Min has been with 500Startups since 2015, as the first hire, and hasbeen supporting the 50+ portfolio companiessince then. Prior to her VC career, she was inthe entertainment and advertising industries.She graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London.
HYU Holdings

Kyong Won Kim

Representative Fund Manager

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HYU Holdings

Republic of Korea

Kyong Won Kim, Representative Fund Manager at HYU Holdings, has experience in marketing, new frontiers, business management at conglomerate, public enterprise, and venture enterprise. Due to his former experience as a businessman, he seeks mutual growth with startups. He has much investment reference on outstanding startup investments and many cases of technology commercialization.
Hanhwa I&S

Ki Han Kim

Manager

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Hanhwa Investment & Securities

Republic of Korea

Ki Han Kim has been in charge of stock investment and derivatives trading at Hanwha Investment & Securities since 2007. In 2017, there was a business transfer between Hanwha Investment and Hanwha Investment’s New Technology Financial Business Department and Ki Han joined as Investment Manager. His investment portfolio includes Yanolja, Agilesoda, Stradvision, Starstech, Tempuse.
L&S VC

Dong Chan Kim

General Manager

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L&S Venture Capital

Republic of Korea

Dong Chan Kim is a bio/fashion/beauty specialized venture capitalist who seeks for early-stage startup investments. He studied bio drug delivery system at Korea University Graduate School of Life Sciences. Formerly, a cosmetics researcher at LG H&H, he has experience in developing various products and launching new brands. He has authored 『All That Cosmetics』, a science-based cosmetic book, and give lectures and advises startups/college students who wish to start a business in the beauty industry. As a bio-majored venture capitalist from the Cosmetic Research Institute, he focuses his investment in the field of bio, beauty and fashion.
Etri Holdings

Sung Ha Kim

Team Leader

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Etri Holdings

Republic of Korea

Sung Ha Kim, currently Investment Team Leader at Etri Holdings, has been investing in 11 Deep Tech startups over 4 years. Before joining Etri Holdings, he was a CEO at Able Korea, in charge of planning and designing. Able Korea supplied 3G/4G Mobile Phone Self-Sufficiency System to domestic MVNO telecommunications industry and educational tablet PCs to e-learning service firms.
Neoplux

Si Nae Kim

Associate

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Neoplux

Republic of Korea

Sinae Kim, a VC investment professional at Neoplux graduated from Yonsei University, majoring in English language and literature. For about one year and a half since 2017, he experienced internships at several firms including The Boston Consulting Group, Deloitte M&A financial advisory, pre-IPO asset management/PEF/venture capital, and joined Neoplux in July 2019. He has invested and been involved in investments related to IT H/W, IT services, and the retail/commerce sector.
Bluepoint Partners

Yong Keon Kim

Vice President

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Bluepoint Partners

Republic of Korea

Yong Keon Kim, Vice President of Bluepoint Partners, was formerly in charge of Manufacturing/QC at PLASMART. After merging with MKS, he took lead in Global Sourcing. After that, he used his field experience to help startups by founding Bluepoint Partners. Before working at PLASMART, he was an engineer at Samsung Mobile and Samsung Electronics where he developed robots and suspension. He also developed industrial equipment while working at Bioptro and Mirae.
KT Investment

JIn Soo Kim

Director

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KT Investment

Republic of Korea

Jin Soo Kim, Director of KT Investment, has over 10 years of experience in new venture(cloud service, energy, healthcare) at Future Strategy/New Venture Development Department of KT. After that, he has invested in 20 companies for 5 years at KT Investment. His investment especially focuses on the AI, self-driving and mobile sector.
Mirae Holdings

Payton Kim

CEO

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MIrae Holdings

Republic of Korea

Payton Kim founded 2 companies, one in Korea and the other in the US. He loves to work with staff and encourage them. He has extensive experience in retail business(Apple Premium Reseller), Internet service business, and IT product development. He excels at evangelist through leadership, marketing, sales, and product development. Mirae Holding Company brings together researchers and businesses to capitalize on the ideas developed at 4 major Institutes of Science and Technology in Korea, namely, KAIST, UNIST, GIST, and DGIST. Invest in seed, early, and expansion stage technology startups (primary focus is on seed, but also selectively invest in Series A and later-stage startups). Tech Transfer (IP transfer, License, Joint Venture, and Startup) R&BD project with the Korean government.
Kiwoom Investment

Hyoung Wook Kim

Investment Manager

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Kiwoom Investment

Republic of Korea

Hyoung Wook Kim graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a major in biology. After college, he went to work at pharmaceutical company, Chong Kun Dang and afterwards finished MBA at KAIST. He joined Kiwoom Investment in 2015 and has been investing in the bio/healthcare sector. He also is involved in overseas investment with his various global experience.
Mirae Holdings

Tae Seok Rho

Senior Investment Manager`

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MIrae Holdings

Republic of Korea

Taeseok Rho, a Senior Investment Manager at MiraeHoldings, is in charge of seed investment and TIPS recommendation for technology-based early-stage startups. Before joining, he co-founded a commerce specialized accelerator, ‘SmartFarmer’, investing and developing startups in local regions. Prior to this, he worked at Pusan National University, giving lectures, analyzing companies, and conducting management consulting.
KST Holdings

Mark Ryoo

General Manager

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Korea Science and Technology Holdings

Republic of Korea

Mark Ryoo, General Manager of Korea Science and Technology Holdings, was in charge of R&D and business development as the President of VeriFone Korea. He started working as semiconductor research at Hynix and went on to establish Orange Logic. As a CEO at Orange Logic, he directed R&D, investment promotion and later successfully led M&A with VeriFone in 2010.
NP Investment

Jae Hyun Park

CEO

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New Paradigm Investment

Republic of Korea

Jae Hyun Park, CEO of New Paradigm Investment, specializes in 4IR commercialization by accelerating innovative startups. As Managing Director of LB Investment and Senior Manager of SBI Investment, he has successfully managed 213 billion won and has done direct investment of 125 billion won along with double profit. His portfolio includes 10 IPOs and 4 M&As with companies such as CIS, Hansol Secure, Dexter Studios, Mindslab, Market Kurly, Waug Travel, Yellow Mobile, 4:33 Creative Lab, Nature Republic, Dasan Networks, Handysoft, Global Tax Free. He has job experience at SK Hynix and SK. He earned his MBA at KAIST.
Murex Partners

Jin Young Park

Senior Associate

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Murex Partners

Republic of Korea

Before joining Murex Partners, Jin Young Park was in charge of projects at C-Lab and advance development at Samsung Electronics IT&Mobile Communications Department. He did market research for smartphone development and reviewed and applied for a patent and HW Layout design for design feasibility. He also was in charge of the interior self-driving robot development project at C-Lab. Jin Young was head of the project and developed algorithms for stereo-vision camera-based object detection and localization.
We Ventures

Hyuk Jin Park

Senior Investment Manager

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We Ventures

Republic of Korea

Hyuk Jin Park, Team Leader of We Ventures, was the former CFO of cosmetics distribution venture B2Link. As a founding member, he was in charge of IR(to domestic/foreign VC) and operation(KPI management) while the company’s annual revenue reached about 40 billion won. Hyuk Jin started his career as a consultant at US consulting firm PwC(LA branch) where he did risk management and management consulting.
Y&Archer

Hyun Jeong Park

Director

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Y&Archer

Republic of Korea

Before joining Y&Archer, Hyun Jeong Park was a co-founder of a women-led startup. She has experience in planning a new venture for curation service, opening an online shopping platform, and directing/managing market research and merchandise planning. Prior to founding a company, she was in charge of the coordination/consultation of startup marketing as the chief consultant of a university research center. At Y&Archer, Hyun Jeong is a Director who seeks and invests in early-stage startups.
KT Investment

Julia Seo

Manager

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KT Investment

Republic of Korea

Julia is a VC at KT Investment and primarily invests in startups within ICT Services, Commerce, Mobile platform, Fintech and Contents industries. Before joining KT Investment, Julia worked at Deal Advisory, KPMG (Chicago) mainly in healthcare and manufacturing, and worked in M&A Consulting in Hong Kong.
KB Investment

Young Seok Song

Managing Director

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KB Investment

Republic of Korea

Young-Seok Song, Managing Director of KB Investment, has been working in venture capital since 1997. He contributed to small and medium-sized domestic venture company’s foundation and growth by investing a total of approximately 80 billion won to 50 companies across diverse business fields. With 23 years of experience, he actively shares his opinion with the industry and has contributed to resolving current issues in the venture industry directly and indirectly through the Venture Capital Association, etc. Currently, he mainly reviews investments in series A of early-stage business startups, which often leads to investments in series B and C as early-stage companies develop. To this end, he continues his interest in investments of early-stage companies, entry of new businesses of medium-or-larger-sized companies, and overseas expansion of domestic companies.
CS Partners

Eun Kang Song

CEO

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Capstone Partners

Republic of Korea

Eun Kang Song, Founder of Capstone Partners, invests mainly in ICT. He founded Capstone in 2008 and invested in over 150 startups including Daagn, Spoon Radio, FSN, Zigbang, Kurley. Over the past 10 years, he has been hosting investment assessment channel, “Just Start! Don’t Be Chicken!” He is also dedicated to developing the domestic startup ecosystem through mentoring and examining at various venture contests. He graduated from Seoul National University with a BS in Statistics and completed his MA at KAIST School of Computing. After school, he went on to work at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Samsung Research. He has experience as Associate of Cambridge Samsung Partners and invested in companies such as C-bridge System, N*able Technology and more.
Ascendo VC

Aaron Shin

Managing Director

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Ascendo Ventures

Republic of Korea

Aaron Shin is the co-founder and CEO of Ascendo Ventures. Prior to his business, he was an Asia-based Investment Partner at Formation 8, making investments in companies around Korea and Silicon Valley including fields in entertainment, e-commerce, consumer technology, AI, digital healthcare, VR, and more. He also helped invested companies expand their business across Asia and the United States as a follow-up to the investment. Before Formation 8, he was an Investment Officer at Softbank Ventures.
SEMA Translink

Wook Ahn

Managing Director

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SEMA Translink Investment

Republic of Korea

Wook Ahn is a CPA who has various audit and corporate M&A consulting experiences at Samil PWC and Samjung accounting firms. Based on the experiences, Ahn was in charge of PEF investment at GK Investment, Woori PE and Hanhwa Investment. He made growth capital investment in STS Semiconductor Communication, PK Valve, CMS Education and other companies. He manages growth capital investment in startups entering into the growth stage. In addition, based on his accounting expertise, he provides advice on the financial issues with investee companies.
Ilshin VC

Min Young Oh

Head of Retail Investments

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Ilshin Investment

Republic of Korea

Min Young Oh currently heads consumer retail investments at Ilshin Investment. Before her time at Ilshin, Minyoung was in the fashion industry with strategic planning and merchandising experience at Samsung Fashion and Burberry Korea. Prior to moving to Seoul, Minyoung was an investment banker, specializing in M&A advisory, both at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and Citi in New York City.
KB Investment

Jeremy Oh

Director

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KB Investment

Republic of Korea

Jeremy Oh, beforejoining KB Investment, served as a content expert investment judge at TimeWise Investment. He was mainly in charge of investment in Culture Contents projects,as well played a role in judging investments in diverse contents investment, such as performance, exhibition, and drama. Prior to this, he worked at film investment distributors including Warner Brothers Korea, Taewon Entertainment, and Siders, where he took part in content production, content planning, and distribution.With his know-how from these content projects, he is currently in KB Investment, taking charge of corporate investment in webtoons and web drama producers. As of COVID-19, his interest in non-contact culture content producers and platforms increased, further taking a step to review content-technology companiesthat base their culture contents on AI technology. In addition, he also takes interest in diverse industrial sectors, including fashion, service, and O2O. Asan investment reviewer, he is currently operating two culture content funds, respectively 25 billion won and 40 billion won.
Neoplux

Soung Pil Yun

Venture Capitalist

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네오플럭스

Republic of Korea

Soung Pil Yun, Venture Capitalist of Neoplux, formerly worked as an analyst at NHN Investment PE Department. His interest in engineering and finance lead him to be a venture capitalist. Currently, Soung Pil is interested in IT/Fin Tech/contents sector.
Big Basin VC

Phil Yoon

General Partner

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Big Basin Capital

Republic of Korea

Phil Yoon, General Partner of Big Basin Capital, has invested in approximately 33 early stage startups located in Seoul and Silicon Valley. He mainly invests in mobile, e-commerce, business software, digital contents, edu-tech, and games. His portfolio companies include OnDemandKorea, Brandi, Swingvy, Cookat, GoodTime and Tutoring. Before founding Big Basin Capital, he was in charge of investment for South Korean startups at Walden International. At that time, he invested in SUNDAYTOZ, the company which released Anipang, and introduced the potential of the Korean Startup Ecosystem. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at KAIST where he mentors college students. Phil earned his BS in Electrical Engineering at SNU and his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He also did his MBA at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Gu Equity

Kang Woon Lee

Senior Partner

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Gu Equity Partners

Republic of Korea

Kang Woon Lee, Senior Partner of Gu Equity Partners, received a PhD in Materials Science at KAIST. Afterwards, he went on to develop next generation semiconductors at the Samsung Electronics Semiconductor R&D Center. He started his career as VC in 2008 by investing in IT manufacturing companies at My Venture and Atinum Investment. In 2017, Kang Woon joined Gu Equity Partners as Senior Partner. Ever since, he took the role of fund manager for semiconductor growth fund and system semiconductor win-win funds.
SparkLabs

KJ Lee

Director

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SparkLabs

Republic of Korea

KJ Lee, Director of SparkLabs, is seeking out domestic/overseas startups with high potential and supporting their growth while helping them venture into the global market. Before SparkLabs, he co-founded mobility sharing startup, Gbike. At Gbike, he planned and operated the IoT-based mobility sharing platform. As CEO of Gbike, he raised investment from domestic and Silicon Valley VCs and this led to the company’s growth. Also, he was data analyst for Morning Star Chicago HQ where he analyzed and evaluated data for global funds in the US, Asia, and Europe. KJ holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University, a MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a MS from Stanford University.
GAIA VC

Dong Jun Lee

Managing Director

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GAIA Venture Partners

Republic of Korea

Dong Jun Lee, Managing Director of Gaia Venture Partners, is in charge of investment in the cultural contents. At present, he manages three PIFs(professional investment fund) and is especially interested in movies, TV programs, and animation. He formerly worked at IBK and Tube Investment.
C&Venture Partners

Logan Lee

Executive Director

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C&Venture Partners

Republic of Korea

Logan Lee, Executive Director of C&Venture Partners, is in charge of TIPS operation. He focuses on the acceleration of seed investment, follow-up investment, and making inroads overseas. Formerly, at nTels, he searched for early-stage startups and supported them with seed investment. He is also a doctor of engineering with teaching experience and has supported technology commercialization at universities.
SBI Investment

Min Geun Lee

Manager

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SBI Investment

Republic of Korea

Min Geun Lee joined SK Group in 2014, and SBI Investment in 2016 as a member of the Investment Team, where he experienced 20 venture investment/management/exit companies over the 5 years. SBI Investment is Japan`s leading venture capital, which has more than 2 trillion won in funds, including CVC funds. Major portfolios include AI inside, Cogent Labs, RPA Holdings in RPA, Showroom in live broadcasting/content, Ichikara, Moi, and among Korean companies, Gowid, Coinplug, and Bithumb. In addition to investment, he also takes part in fund management/raising, and works on various tasks related to Korea. In February 2020, he served as an executive officer Sales Department manager of SBI Everspin, a subsidiary of SBI Holdings.
Wonik

Seok Jae Lee

Executive Director

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Wonik Investment Partners

Republic of Korea

Seok Jae Lee, Executive Director of Wonik Investment Partners, utilized his mechatronic knowledge to design IT components, machinery, control SW at Samsung Electronics and Samsung Motors Institute of Technology. In 1999, he set foot in the venture ecosystem. Ever since then, he has been carrying out various VC projects as a Principal. Currently, he is head fund manager of 3 funds at Wonik Investment Partners. He started a fund(on a 40 billion won scale) that specializes in investment for early stage startups. Seok Jae is maintaining intimate partnership with his investment groups by advising sourcing for personnel, additional funding, business management and more. He is especially interested in forming a new business model by converging ICT/SW/healthcare technology startups, manufacturing companies, and ICT technology.
Y Alliance

Soo Mi Lee

Analyst

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Y Alliance Investment

Republic of Korea

Soo Mi Lee, Analyst of Y Alliance Investment, has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry including Samsung SDS. At Samsung, she was in charge of designing/managing applications used by Samsung Electronics employees. After that, she transferred to Samsung SDS and worked as Merchandise Designer at Solution Business Department. She was fascinated by Y Alliance Investment’s vision “Hearty Investment for the Health of Good People” and joined the company to share her experience with startups.
SBI Investment

Joo Hyuck Lee

Principal

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SBI Investment

Republic of Korea

Joo-hyuck Lee has experience as a Venture Capitalist at BSK Investment. Based on investment experience, he joined SBI Investment. He has invested numerous early-stage venture corporations and has a wide human network in the start-up industry. In particular, he is interested in business sectors such as ICT, Games, and Healthcare.
Intervalue Partners

Chang Ho Lee

Managing Director

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Intervalue Partners

Republic of Korea

Chang Ho Lee, Managing Director of Intervalue Partners, was previously in charge of Strategy Planning at OLED display company, Viatron Technology. He has experience in M&A investment assessment/IR and prolific networks with professionals in the IT industry. Before working at Vitaron Technology, he was head of R&D at an IT company that specialized in LED/optical communications/MEMS.
KKR Korea

Chang Hwan Lee

Principal

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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Korea

Republic of Korea

Chang Hwan Lee joined KKR in 2012 and is a member of the Private Equity team. At KKR, Mr. Lee has been involved with the firm's activities in South Korea and its investment in Oriental Brewery, Ticket Monster, LS Automotive, and KCF Technologies. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Lee was an analyst with Goldman Sachs where he was involved in M&A advisory in South Korea. He holds a B.B.A., summa cum laude, from College of Business Administration, Seoul National University.
STIC Ventures

Hyun Suk Lee

Principal

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STIC Ventures

Republic of Korea

Hyunsuk Lee, Principal of STIC Ventures, focuses on investment in AI, Fintech, e-commerce and ICT service sector. His portfolio includes Fount, Together Funding, apptest.ai, Millie and more. Before joining STIC, he was in charge of new product planning at Samsung Electronics IT&Mobile Division. He built expertise in the IT technology/market while planning market strategies for VR, IoT, Wearable devices, convergence, tablet and more.
SGI VC

Hyung Joo Lee

Manager

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Samho Green Investment

Republic of Korea

Hyung Joo Lee is a manager at Samho Green Investment. Mr. Lee is responsible for startup investment activity and small cap M&A. Prior to joining Samho Green Investment, Mr. Lee worked as a Manager at Deloitte Korea, where he led managing financial due diligence for a variety of clients and conducting sell/buy-side advisory roles on a number of buy-outs and financial transactions. He also worked as a Senior Associate at Deloitte Korea, where he accumulated a variety of experiences in relation to audit and regulatory reporting. Mr. Lee is KICPA and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Yonsei University.
Kakao VC

Brian Jang

Senior Associate

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Kakao Ventures

Republic of Korea

Brian has joined Kakao Ventures in 2014 and invested in various early-stage startups such as Daangn Market, Cleaning Lab, Fabric Time, Veluga Brewery, and SocialBean. He is especially attracted to those who solve problems that can be found in everyday life and in business. He previously worked in the field of equity research at Hana Financial Investment.
CCEI Incheon

Anna Jang

Department Leader

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Incheon Center for Creative Economy & Innovation

Republic of Korea

Anna Jang, Investment Department Leader of Incheon Center for Creative Economy & Innovation, has been assisting startups on funding and management for over 15 years. She holds a CMC(Certified Management Consultant) awarded by Ministry of SMEs and Startups and does lectures about startups at universities. After moving to Incheon Center for Creative Economy and Innovation, she has started a fund and has been working as Executive Fund Manager that invests in startups.
Mirae Holdings

Ji Young Jang

Representative Fund Manager

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MIrae Holdings

Republic of Korea

Ji Young Jang, Representative Fund Manager of Mirae Holdings, has earned her bachelor in Architectural Engineering at Yonsei University and her M.E. at KAIST College of Business. She has experienced the entire construction field in person. With that experience, she converted to technology commercialization by establishing YSU Holdings and its subsidiary. She took her talents to the Agency for Defense Development and made plans to commercialize defense technology in private sectors. Currently, her area of responsibility is technology investment in hardware, fusion biotechnology at Mirae Holdings.
BAP VC

Josh Chun

Partner

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Bridge Alliance Partners

Republic of Korea

Before founding Bridge Alliance Partners, Josh Chun started a private-equity investment firm, Nautics Equity Partners, whose first M&A fund acquired an IT company. Before Nautics, Josh worked at private-equity firms, Dominus Investment and EastBridge Partners as an investment analyst. Previous to the private-equity experience, Josh was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman where he was engaged in strategy consulting projects in the financial industry, both in Seoul and Hong Kong office.
KSV Global

Ted Jeong

Managing Partner

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KSV Global Innovations

Republic of Korea

Ted Jeong has served as the Managing Partner of KSV Global Innovations (KSV), a transformative innovation-focused venture capital firm targeting early and growth-stage companies primarily in the United States and Korea. He has more than 20 years of experience as a venture capitalist and a financial executive. Before joining KSV, Mr. Jeong served in various roles of progressive responsibility at Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REXN), including Chief Financial Officer and Board Director. From 1997 to 2002, he served as the Senior Investment Manager at Hyundai Venture Investment Corporation, where he operated two of the first healthcare venture capital funds in Korea. Mr.Jeong received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Pohang University of Science & Technology. He also holds an M.S. in Finance from Johns Hopkins University and a Doctor of Management from the University of Maryland.
PKSHA

Hyuk Jung

Associate

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PKSHA Technology Capital

Republic of Korea

Hyuk Jung majored in Mass Communication at Waseda University and got his MA studying Global Business Communication at Fudan University. He previously worked at Lotte Institute of Business&Economy and Korea Economic Daily. Currently, he works as an Associate at Japan VC, PKSHA Technology Capital. PKSHA Technology Capital is an Asian fund focusing its investment in Korean/Chinese/Japanese companies and has raised 10 billion yen. Hyuk Jung is fluent in Korean, Chinese, Japanese and English with a broad scale of understanding in the Korean/Chinese/Japanese IT sector. He is supporting many Korean startups to branch out to all over Asia.
GAIA VC

Jae Man Cho

Head of Department

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GAIA Venture Partners

Republic of Korea

Jae Man Cho is the Head of Department and Senior Investment Manager at Gaia Venture Partners. He previously worked in the Development Planning Department at a domestic broadcasting company (KBSN) and newspaper company (The Korea Economy Daily, Korea JoongAng Daily). He was in charge of funds and investment partnership through fund management, investment review, and policy management. He is currently progressing investments in Culture Content and Oceans/Fisheries as a Senior Investment Manager at Gaia Venture Partners, a venture company that operates six Fund of Funds (government-funded investment associations). Mr. Cho conducts Gaia Innovation Growth Marketing Investment Association and Gaia Fisheries Venture Startup Investment Association as his main responsibility.
Mirae Asset VC

Jin Hwan Cho

General Manager

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Mirae Asset Venture Investment

Republic of Korea

Jinhwan Cho, General Manager of Mirae Asset Venture Investment, invests in IT/mobile services, commerce, and technology-based(AI, semiconductor, etc.) companies. Before working at Mirae Asset Venture Investment, he was in charge of M&A at Coupang. He is also the co-founder of Frip(activity platform startup) where he planned business strategy and attracted investment. His resume includes planning investment at Kakao Ventures and arranging business strategy at Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Cho also has experience in planning mobile applications at a game developing company, Nexon Mobile. He seeks to give practical assistance with his experience to startups, including how to attract investment, growth investment, M&A, PMI and etc. He acquired AICPA, majored in industrial engineering, and minored in business management at KAIST.
JNU Holdings

Han Jin Cho

Deputy Manager

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JNU Holdings

Republic of Korea

Han Jin Choi, Deputy Manager of JNU Holdings, is a lawyer and member of Jeonnam Angel Club. He is in charge of managing/seeking companies at NUC-4 Private Investment Fund and Bitgaram Private Investment Fund (both operated by JNU Holdings). Before joining JNU Holdings, he handled legal cases and did counseling for local governments/companies.
Kakao Ventures

Mike Cho

Business Analyst

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Kakao Ventures

Republic of Korea

Mike(Hyunik Cho) is responsible for working with teams across Asia, particularly Japan and Southeast Asia. He strives to be an effective facilitator across different markets, with an earnest and open attitude. He constantly seeks answers to ‘Why?’ and is eager to work with ‘Problem solvers’ of today.
Timewise

Hyun Ju Cho

Senior Investment Manager

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Timewise Investment

Republic of Korea

Hyun Ju Cho, currently a Senior Investment Manager at Timewise Investment, is in charge of content investment review. Before joining Timewise Investment, she worked at ‘Sony Pictures Releasing Walt Disney Company Korea’, responsible for the distribution of films such as , and . Prior to her career at Sony Disney, she worked at CGV Program Team, where she took responsibility in scheduling screening and IMAX related work.
Nextrans

Chris Chae

Managing Director

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Nextrans

Republic of Korea

Chris joined Nextrans in 2015 and has been involved in all the investments and preceding support ever since. He is managing 25 portfolio companies, and has done follow-on investments in 20 Vietnam-based companies and has also invested in Spoon Radio. His motto is “Invest and join those who try to make the world a better place”.
KB Investment

Yong Hee Han

Senior Investment Manager

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KB Investment

Republic of Korea

Yong Hee Han, Senior Investment Manager of KB Investment, earned his BA in sociology at Yonsei University. His past experience includes investment assessment in the contents and VC industry. Currently, he is vibrantly investing in B2C areas such as entertainment, consumer, and commerce.
SparkLabs Ventures

Christine Huh

Senior Manager

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SparkLabs Ventures

Republic of Korea

As a manager at SparkLabs Ventures, Christine is in charge of seeking out startups with high potential and supporting their growth. Before joining SparkLabs, she worked for IDG Capital’s Korean branch, pursuing opportunities on later stages of investment. During her time at IDG, she focused on cross-border deals and helping domestic companies venture into the global market. She is especially passionate in sectors including e-commerce, fashion, consumer goods, and platforms. Christine received her BA from Johns Hopkins University where she studied International Studies, and later went on to obtain a Master’s degree from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
EIP

Ben Hyun

Vice President

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Evergreen Investment Partners

Republic of Korea

Ben Hyun, Vice President of Evergreen Investment Partners, has over 15 years of experience in industry analysis with investment outcomes in Mirae Nanotech, Partron, Ubivelox, LTC and etc. He previously worked at Korea Long Term Credit Bank, Korea Technology Investment Corporation, NHN Investment, and more. For a brief period, he was in charge of IPO and Management Planning as CFO at Kweather and Caregen. Currently, he is focusing on startup investment as a partner at Evergreen Investment Partners. His portfolio includes Laftel, EOFlow, Genesystem, and more than 20 startups. He is constantly searching to invest in startups by building relationships with accelerators, local governments, universities and etc.
EIP

Jong K. Hong

Managing Partner

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Evergreen Investment Partners

Republic of Korea

Jong K. Hong started his career as a fund manager with Korea Investment Trust Co.,Ltd. and worked at its London office for 5 years. He moved to Salomon Smith Barney Inc. and experienced several cross-border deals. In 1999, he entered a start-up industry and acted as CEO with e-Capital Co.,Ltd. and Solbon Investment, Inc. He established Evergreen Investment Partners,LLC in March 2016.
Infobank

Jeong Cheol Hong

CFO

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Infobank Corp

Republic of Korea

Hong Jong Cheol is the CEO of iAccel business division, the investment division of Infobank, and is in charge of TIPS program operation and investment generalization. He is the Representative Fund Manager of Infobank Angel Fund No.1 and No.2 and has led 115 startup investments in Infobank Corp. over the past five years. He is also a leader of SW High Growth CLUB, Ministry of Science and ICT, and official mentor of Korea Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development, LOTTE Accelerator, SHINHAN Future’s Lab, etc. Before joining Infobank, he was a director of a patent consulting company and conducted many patent consulting services. He is also supporting startups to build their patent portfolios as an IP expert. He registered more than 2,300 patents as a patent inventor.
Startupbootcamp

Colin Allison

Associate Partner

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Startupbootcamp

United States of America

Colinis an Associate Partner at both Rainmaking and Startupbootcamp inSingapore, working alongside startups and Fortune 500 companies acrossthe APAC region. Colin leads Rainmaking's corporate venture buildingstudio in Singapore and invests in early stage pre-seed to seedstartups with a focus on Southeast Asia in FinTech and Renewable Energy.
Access Ventures

Josh Jung

Senior Associate

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Access Ventures

Republic of Korea

Yongmin Jung (Josh) is a senior associate at Access Ventures, an early-stage VC focusing on SE Asia. During his venture investment career, he led/was involved in 25+ investments across the region, especially S.Korea and Vietnam. His investment focus has been tech-driven businesses with regional potential. With his knowledge in startup growth/investment in combination with tech experiences, he always loves his role in finding/supporting passionate entrepreneurs. Before joining Access Ventures, he was a senior research engineer at KT R&D center and ETRI, one of the largest tech institutes in Korea (field - AI/ML, IoT). He's a tech geek himself and a big believer in talented entrepreneurs.